containing written prayers

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• Prayers for the Dead — • Catholic teaching regarding prayers for the dead is bound up inseparably with the doctrine of purgatory and the more general doctrine of the communion of the saints, which is an article of the Apostle s Creed Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight …   Catholic encyclopedia

• prayer wheel — noun a cylinder with prayers written on it; each revolution counts as uttering the prayers; used especially by Buddhists in Tibet • Hypernyms: ↑prayer, ↑petition, ↑orison * * * noun : a cylinder of wood or metal revolving on an axis and… …   Useful english dictionary

• Placing notes in the Western Wall — A girl places a note into a crack of the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Placing notes in the Western Wall refers to the practice of placing slips of paper containing written prayers to God into the cracks and crevices of the Western Wall, a Jewish… …   Wikipedia

• PRAYER WHEEL —    a device used in Tibetan BUDDHISM consisting of a cylinder containing written PRAYERS and MANTRAS which is believed to take effect when rotated …   Concise dictionary of Religion

• Prayer-Books — • A collection of forms of prayer intended for private devotion, and in so far distinct from the service books which contain the liturgical formularies used in public worship. Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Prayer Books      …   Catholic encyclopedia

• TKHINES — (Yid., from Hebrew teḥinnot, supplications ), private devotions and paraliturgical prayers in Yiddish, written by women and men, recited primarily by women. As texts in the vernacular, tkhines are important sources for the history of popular… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

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• publishing, history of — Introduction       an account of the selection, preparation, and marketing of printed matter from its origins in ancient times to the present. The activity has grown from small beginnings into a vast and complex industry responsible for the… …   Universalium

• Outline of Sikhism — The Khanda The following outline is presented as an overview of and topical guide to Sikhism: Sikhism – monotheistic religion founded in the fifteenth century, upon the teachings of Guru Nanak Dev Ji and ten succeeding Gurus (the last one being… …   Wikipedia

• Sacramentary — The Sacramentary is a book containing the prayers that a priest recites at Mass. Though in the late twentieth century the word sacramentary was used in the United States for the English translation of the Roman Missal, a Sacramentary is not the… …   Wikipedia

• Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes — The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes For the shrine with a similar name in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, see Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, Blackpool The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes or the Domain (as it is most commonly known) is an area… …   Wikipedia