noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Lord's Prayer
Morning Prayer
prayer book
prayer mat
prayer wheel
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
daily
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His daily prayer was that he would be allowed to stay here.
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Please know that you are daily in my prayers .
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Otherwise why do the five daily prayers bear the names of the positions of the sun in the sky?
eucharistic
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It never, however, approved the celebration of the Mass wholly in the vernacular, Eucharistic prayer and all.
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As a consequence of this fact it is possible to delineate the proper role of the congregation in the eucharistic prayer .
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However, as we have seen, the Sanctus is likewise a part of the eucharistic prayer .
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Her task was to write a meditation on one of the Eucharistic prayers the priest recites at Mass.
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As is evident from an examination of other rites, there are also other possibilities for congregational involvement in the eucharistic prayer .
silent
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For an hour the two women sat in silent prayer , nervously scanning the other customers.
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As taps played across the land, Oliver Stone must have bowed his head in silent prayer .
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His lips moved in silent prayer .
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He paused for a moment, his head bowed in silent prayer .
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Half an hour - at least: songs, prayers , loud prayers, silent prayers.
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Being silent in prayer is another dimension of being quiet with the other person.
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Half of his mind was saying silent prayers .
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She lit a candle over there as a silent prayer for her estranged husband and went home.
special
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Traditionally, these days were set apart for special prayer and fasting.
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For the end of her litany, Dalim reserved a very special prayer , one that she herself composed.
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Meanwhile, the Sisters started special prayers .
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Richard Baxter arranged a day of special prayer and fasting for her deliverance on New Year's Eve 1659.
■ NOUN
book
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At her girdle hung a gold chain and cross, and she carried a handkerchief and a little prayer book bound in gold.
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A congregation in Tampa sent over some prayer books , while Unity of Leesburg donated a pulpit.
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When he reached his church, he missed the prayer book , and hurried back.
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Naturally the overseas extensions of the Anglican way of life were interested to revise their own prayer books .
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The vicar paced behind, holding his prayer book , his hair floating up and down in the draught from the door.
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She even carried her own prayer book .
books
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The care with which Christians had treasured their Bibles, prayer books and hymn books was very touching.
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A congregation in Tampa sent over some prayer books , while Unity of Leesburg donated a pulpit.
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Naturally the overseas extensions of the Anglican way of life were interested to revise their own prayer books .
evening
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Madani and Belhadj, citing this concession, asked their followers at evening prayers in Algiers to end the strike.
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By the time dinner has been eaten and evening prayers conducted it is eight o'clock and about a hundred people have gathered.
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A kind of swooning, An evening prayer .
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He thought he might because evening prayer on Good Friday was in a way a funeral service.
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The Moors wept at leaving Granada and still mourn its loss in their evening prayers .
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The senior Sharifi led evening prayers and, after a meal, they began the proceedings.
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After evening prayers something happened to arouse her fears further.
mat
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Coffee thermoses, incense pots, boxes of fruit, trays to serve it on, suitcases, prayer mats .
meeting
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The prayer meetings were then held in the Methodist and Presbyterian churches.
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Their weeks are filled with convivial church suppers, musically upbeat prayer meetings , and jubilant testimony services.
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Christians had been compelled to give up meetings for corporate worship, but still kept up small prayer meetings in houses.
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I went to the early morning prayer meeting with Mum.
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It is reckoned that on one occasion 15000 people attended a prayer meeting in Armagh.
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Friday the choir practice and on Saturday a prayer meeting for the services on Sunday.
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Yet prayer meetings for the renewal of the church and for revival in the nation are not an automatic answer to decline.
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One learns to grow suspicious of cosy, predictable and sentimental prayer meetings .
morning
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I went to the early morning prayer meeting with Mum.
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At five, just before he was to get up for morning prayer and study; the wind began.
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He could never be happy with morning prayer and not the sacrament as the chief morning service.
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Cold silence for his morning prayer .
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After breakfast and morning prayers , John left to dig peats on the muir to the east of his home.
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Decorations for bravery won by past pupils were announced at morning prayers , and invariably earned the boys a half-holiday.
rug
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This is essential with prayer rugs and pictorial carpets, which lose much of their impact if viewed upside-down.
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We travel the world with our gym bags and prayer rugs , unrolling them in the transit lounges.
school
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Christians have hauled the Republican Party towards their views on abortion and school prayer .
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For a few, they include positions on such hot-button issues as abortion, gay rights, and school prayer .
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They led the fight against school prayer , year after year.
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These issues include abortion, the balanced federal budget, school prayer , and even flag burning.
service
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Organise a prayer service and/or information event for your parish or deanery.
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More than 500 students packed the Immaculate Conceptcion Chapel for a 50-minute campus-wide prayer service Thursday evening.
■ VERB
answer
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Both play a very clever trick which will answer the prayers of video users all round the world.
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I thought I could bestow beauty like a benediction and that your half-dark flesh would answer to the prayer .
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A very last thought is that we must do everything possible to answer our own prayers .
call
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I sat watching as the sun reached its zenith and the muezzin began to call the people to prayers .
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He also called for prayers for both victims and perpetrators of violence.
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From the top of one these, a muezzin calls the faithful to prayer .
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Teddy Although the authors call them letters they are in fact a form of communication we call prayer .
hear
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Lord in your mercy - hear our prayer .
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Had anyone ever heard of a prayer like that?
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Lord, in Your mercy Hear our prayer .
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For our daily bread accept our praise and hear our prayer .
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Heavenly Father has heard our prayers .
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She heard Anna's prayers , tucked her into bed and kissed her goodnight before going to Mrs Carson.
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The Lord heard their prayers and restored him.
hold
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We need to see the comfort a confused old person derives from holding a prayer book or rosary.
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Kind Mrs Chalmers holds the prayer book high, as if for Frank - who can't read - to see it.
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Buddhist monks dressed in ochre robes lit traditional butter lamps and held a six-hour prayer vigil at a Himalayan monastery in Sikkim.
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The vicar paced behind, holding his prayer book, his hair floating up and down in the draught from the door.
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In the front room she started to hold prayer meetings that were almost like seances.
join
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He joined the church's prayer for boldness to do exactly what he had been told by the authorities not to do.
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She joined a prayer group that met weekly to read and reflect on the Scriptures.
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At the graveside, Jules and Marie were joining the priest in prayer .
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The Catholic hierarchy was joined at the prayer vigil by the Rev.
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We join in prayers for peace with kin beyond sea.
kneel
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You are here to kneel Where prayer has been valid.
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His sweatshirt hood, steeply pitched overhead: a lone monk kneeling at prayer at a partially disinterred altar.
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Many of the godly liked to portray themselves and their families kneeling in prayer on their tombs.
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Kopyion was kneeling as if in prayer .
lead
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He might simply be a small-time official who leads the prayers in the neighborhood mosque.
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An introductory note says that she used to read prayers very slowly with frequent pauses, which led almost instantaneously to prayer.
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In the beginning the two functions were linked; the caliph necessarily had to lead the prayers .
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The senior Sharifi led evening prayers and, after a meal, they began the proceedings.
offer
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Each morning the strike council opened business by some one offering a prayer .
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She offered ardent prayers to them perpetually, but not one of them would do anything to make Venus their enemy.
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Perhaps you would like to help; please do not feel maudlin or offer a vicarious prayer .
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So in offering prayers for downtrodden races, I would advise you not to overlook the downtrodden tourist.
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Miles offered up a silent prayer as he walked.
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She would offer up a silent prayer .
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After offering a prayer , the virgin expired.
pray
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Gildas believed in something sacred and holy, and Ludens felt sure that Gildas prayed , whatever prayer was.
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That was a real two-for-one deal, Father, because I prayed that prayer with you.
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As we pray this prayer we join with those generous young men as they set out on their missionary journeys.
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I think you should pray some other prayer .
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I would not pray that prayer if I was going to continue to hold something against some one.
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Carla prayed without prayer that this interview would stop now.
read
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He read the opening prayers from the platform and spoke impressively to the undergraduates about their attitudes to the mission.
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When it came, he brought the crosier back to his side and began to read the prayers from the book.
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An introductory note says that she used to read prayers very slowly with frequent pauses, which led almost instantaneously to prayer.
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A priest came forward and opened the book from which Hughes was to read the prayers .
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This also comes into being as we couple reading the Bible with prayer .
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On this occasion she did not preach, but simply read the prayers of petition.
recite
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One recollection of Leonard's concerns his reciting a prayer at Synagogue, which he got wrong.
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The rabbi bowed as low as if he were reciting the Modim Anakhnu prayer in the synagogue.
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He can even recite a prayer in the language of the Sioux, albeit with a Wiltshire accent.
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All over the city, all over Ireland, now, people would be pausing to recite a prayer .
said
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He said a small prayer and stepped out into the muddy, windy darkness.
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He told them to kneel, and said a prayer over them.
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Her kneeling the whole time, clutching a rosary as she said her prayers .
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I patted Kibbles a couple of times, said a little prayer and went back into our house.
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Finally, after the evening biscuit and drink of water, we said prayers and went to bed.
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Fong knelt in the darkness of the back room and said a prayer .
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A priest and the hospital chaplain said prayers and blessed the ward.
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He planted a dead vine branch, then said a prayer for an early harvest.
say
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Pull your belly in, you tart and get useful. Say a prayer for Lee.
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Finally he agreed to give her fifteen minutes to say her prayers .
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He said a small prayer and stepped out into the muddy, windy darkness.
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He told them to kneel, and said a prayer over them.
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Finally, after the evening biscuit and drink of water, we said prayers and went to bed.
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In unison, we all began saying different prayers aloud.
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Perhaps you'd better get Fiddy to say some prayers for me.
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Fong knelt in the darkness of the back room and said a prayer .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
offer (up) a prayer/sacrifice etc
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After offering a prayer, the virgin expired.
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Can you find somewhere to offer up a prayer? 36.
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Each morning the strike council opened business by some one offering a prayer.
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So in offering prayers for downtrodden races, I would advise you not to overlook the downtrodden tourist.
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They found him and his sons on the shore offering a sacrifice to Poseidon.
on a wing and a prayer
the Lord's Prayer
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a prayer meeting
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His constant prayer was for an end to the war.
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Our prayers for peace have been answered.
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Our thoughts and prayers are with the Hinson family.
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She knelt to say a prayer of profound thankfulness.
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The monks here believe strongly in the power of prayer and meditation.
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The synagogue is used for prayer and study.
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Their heads were bowed in prayer .
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We always used to say our prayers before going to bed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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From within the house came the mutterings of prayers, accompanied by the tinkling of gamelan instruments.
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In this paper we have stayed close to the pattern presented in the tradition and in official contemporary prayers.
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Some of the prayers are sobs and groans.
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There is an old saying: Be careful what you pray for, lest your prayers be answered.
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This prayer has no special introduction or conclusion.
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This is a besieged, privileged and panicked minority at prayer .