On Tuesday, religious groups scheduled prayer vigils and Masses across the country.
Although many churches scheduled prayer services, especially for this evening when people left work, attendance tended to be light compared with Sept. 11, 2002.
Here is a sign of how brutal the weather is — at least by Georgia standards: Before canceling the ball, Mr. Deal even called off the scheduled prayer service, as drastic a move in the South as canceling a football game.
While Ms. Hoffman said the women's group would be satisfied if it were allowed to pray at the wall once a month with full regalia, her religious action center wants hours each day, between scheduled prayer times, when the gender partition is removed and people can freely enjoy the site as a cultural monument.
Mr. Friedel suggests the clocks may have evolved out of the need in monasteries to create reliable schedules for prayers.
Flexible schedules for prayer services allowed her to attend church even as she worked long hours to support her family of four.
Mechanical clocks became widespread in the 14th century, when they were used in medieval monasteries to keep the regulated schedule of prayers.
Missionaries are slingshot into an intensive, airtight and sometimes lonely schedule of prayer, Scripture study and door-to-door proselytizing six days a week, 52 weeks a year.
The family was poor, and Lyman Beecher assigned his children "a heavy schedule of prayer meetings, lectures, and religious services" while banning the theater, dancing, most fiction, and the celebration of birthdays or Christmas.
Maria Cooper Janis, the daughter of screen idol Gary Cooper and one of Hart's best friends, said Hart found a way "to keep a foot in Hollywood" while fully embracing Benedictine life, which keeps the nuns mostly isolated, and on a strict schedule of prayer, study and manual labor.
