prayer meeting
prayer service | a service at which people sing hymns and pray together |
prayer
supplication | the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving), the priest sank to his knees in prayer |
place of worship
house of prayer
house of God
house of worship | any building where congregations gather for prayer |
prayer rug
prayer mat | a small rug used by Muslims during their devotions |
prayer shawl
tallith
tallis | (Judaism) a shawl with a ritually knotted fringe at each corner, worn by Jews at morning prayer |
rosary
prayer beads | a string of beads used in counting prayers (especially by Catholics) |
prayer book
prayerbook | a book containing prayers |
| prayer wheel | a cylinder with prayers written on it, each revolution counts as uttering the prayers, used especially by Buddhists in Tibet |
| prayer | a fixed text used in praying |
Evening Prayer
evensong | (Anglican Church) a daily evening service with prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer |
| Book of Common Prayer | the Anglican service book of the Church of England, has had several revisions since the Reformation and is widely admired for the dignity and beauty of its language |
| Lord's Prayer | the prayer that Christ gave his disciples in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew :-) |
| Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Children | an Apocryphal book consisting of text added to the Book of Daniel |
entreaty
prayer
appeal | earnest or urgent request, an entreaty to stop the fighting, an appeal for help, an appeal to the public to keep calm |
| prayer petition orison | reverent petition to a deity |
grace
blessing thanksgiving | a short prayer of thanks before a meal, their youngest son said grace |
prayer
supplicant | someone who prays to God |
crab cactus
Thanksgiving cactus
Zygocactus truncatus
Schlumbergera truncatus | South American jointed cactus with usually red flowers, often cultivated as a houseplant, sometimes classified as genus Schlumbergera |
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Day | fourth Thursday in November in the United States, second Monday in October in Canada, commemorates a feast held in by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag |
matins
morning prayer | the first canonical hour, at daybreak |