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Prayer in the Shoah.
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This essay was prepared as a meditation to accompany the prayerbook, Machzor Wolfsberg, published by Yad Vashem. The Machzor contains High Holiday prayers transcribed from memory by the Satmar Hazan Naphtali Stern, z"l, in 1944, in preparation for the Rosh Hashanah service he was about to lead in the Wolfsberg Labor Camp. (Hazan Stern recounts that he wrote the prayers "in pen, on paper torn from cement bags that I purchased [at great risk to his own life] in exchange for bread." Since then, "for forty three years, the pages were always stored in [my family] Machzor." When Stern ...
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Prayer and identity (transcript of a taped conference).(COMMENTARY)(Report)
Newspaper article from: Cross Currents
; A few things on the life of prayer ... Do we know why we want to live lives of prayer? Are we praying in such a way that our prayer is simply for something else ? It's all very well to pray for intentions, and to pray for the world, and to pray...
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Prayer at Taize.(religious community in France)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century
; WE CALL PRAYER at Taize common prayer, not the office, which suggests a work obligation: We do our office...we ought to do. That doesn't correspond to the way we experience prayer in our lives. To say prayer is common is to say that it brings...
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Stuck on the lowest rung of prayer: after years of trying to shape up, she finds grace, courage in intercession.(Spirituality)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter
; ...found myself looking at the history of my prayer over the last 45 years or so. And I realized...but with more focus, that I never knew prayer was a problem until I entered religious life. I had thought prayer was simply part of life. The first problem...
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An investigation of the sociological patterns of prayer frequency and content *.(Report)
Magazine article from: Sociology of Religion
; ...difficult to overstate the importance of prayer to religion, for it is belief and ritual...quoted in Heiler 1932:viii). Although prayer represents a fundamental aspect of religious...life, the influence of social factors on prayer patterns has yet to be extensively explored...
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Prayer for the hurried, the undisciplined and the disorganized.
Magazine article from: The Christian Century
; MUCH RECENT literature on prayer and spiritual formation has taken the pumping iron...or smokers but among those who commit themselves to prayer. People in trouble, reaching out in prayer, are desperately aware of their own weakness, instability...
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The Prayer that Jesus Taught Us.
Magazine article from: Commonweal
; The Prayer that Jesus Taught Us Michael Crosby Orbis...commented-upon of Christian texts, and the Lord's Prayer has subsequently had a privileged place...interpretation, explanation, and paraphrasing of the prayer. A handy summary of some of its more notable...
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Talking to God: Portrait of a World at Prayer.(Book review)
Magazine article from: ForeWord
; ...Talking to God: Portrait of a World at Prayer Work Author(s): John Gattuso, editor Stone...religions call the faithful to some form of prayer, whether it be reciting prescribed words...find this book arresting, with essays on prayer from the world's leading spiritual minds...
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Foolish prayer. (Faith matters).
Magazine article from: The Christian Century
; ...Varieties of Religious Experience, that prayer is the very soul and essence of religion and that in prayer work is really done, and spiritual energy...corridor, generously holding open the door to prayer for others but unable to enter it himself...
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Prayer lab.
Magazine article from: The Christian Century
; ...introduce the spiritual disciplines, including prayer, to their students. Borrowing from the...how to pray and myriad books containing prayers; spiritual directors to help one mature in a life of prayer; and retreats where one can learn from...
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The Prayer of Saint Francis.(Review)
Magazine article from: Commonweal
; The Prayer of Saint Francis By Leonardo Boff Orbis, $12, 118 pp...provides a reasonable explanation of who wrote the prayer and under what conditions. What he has to say about the prayer's origins is completely new to me despite my having...
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