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  2. General Intercessions - Wikipedia

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    This prayer is said at the conclusion of the Liturgy of the Word or Mass of the Catechumens (the older term). The General Instruction of the Roman Missal states: . In the General Intercessions or the Prayer of the Faithful, the people respond in a certain way to the word of God which they have welcomed in faith and, exercising the office of their baptismal priesthood, offer prayers to God for ...

  3. Prayer circle - Wikipedia

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    In Mormonism, a prayer circle is a mode of prayer practiced by Mormons who have taken part in the endowment ceremony. Established by Joseph Smith in 1842 or 1843, he called it the "true order of prayer". The ritual involves one person offering a prayer while surrounded by a circle of participants.

  4. Liturgical reforms of Pope Pius XII - Wikipedia

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    Permission was also granted to use a French (1948) and German (1951) translation for rituals other than Mass. [3] As a means of increasing the participation of the congregation in the celebration of Mass, recognizing that joining in chant is not possible at a Mass that is "read" rather than sung, in 1958 Pius approved the use of hymns in the ...

  5. Prayer in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    When two or more people gather together to pray, their prayer is called communal prayer. Examples of communal prayer are the Rosary, devotional prayers including novenas and litanies, classroom prayers, and, most importantly, the Holy Mass. [7]

  6. Catholic spirituality - Wikipedia

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    The prayers of the Mass, the public prayer of the Church, are characteristically addressed to God the Father. The Catholic bishops declared in 1963: "Devotions should be so drawn up that they harmonize with the liturgical seasons, accord with the sacred liturgy, are in some fashion derived from it, and lead the people to it, since, in fact, the ...

  7. Alexandrian liturgical rites - Wikipedia

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    a prayer for the fruit of the Communion and the final doxology. The 7th-century Sahidic Coptic version found in 1960 [ 9 ] shows an earlier and more sober form of the Bohairic text: the manuscript, incomplete in its first part, begins with the Post Sanctus , and is followed by a terse Institution narrative , by a pithy Anamnesis which simply ...

  8. Christian liturgy - Wikipedia

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    Mass is the common term used in the Lutheran Church in Europe but more often referred to as the Divine Service, Holy Communion, or the Holy Eucharist in North American Lutheranism. Lutherans retained and utilized much of the Roman Catholic mass since the early modifications by Martin Luther. The general order of the mass and many of the various ...

  9. Invocation - Wikipedia

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    Invocation is the act of calling upon a deity, spirit, or supernatural force, typically through prayer, ritual, or spoken formula, to seek guidance, assistance, or presence. [1] It is a practice found in numerous religious, spiritual, and esoteric traditions , where it serves to establish a connection between the human and the divine or ...