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The embolism in Christian liturgy (from Greek ἐμβολισμός (embolismos) 'an interpolation') is a short prayer said or sung after the Lord's Prayer.It functions "like a marginal gloss" upon the final petition of the Lord's Prayer (". . . deliver us from evil"), amplifying and elaborating on "the many implications" of that prayer. [1]
The Birkat haMinim (Hebrew: ברכת המינים "Blessing on the heretics") is a curse on heretics [1] which forms part of the Jewish rabbinical liturgy. [2] It is the twelfth in the series of eighteen benedictions (Shemoneh Esreh) that constitute the core of prayer service in the statutory daily 'standing prayer' of religious Jews.
In religious and magical practice, insufflation and exsufflation [1] are ritual acts of blowing, breathing, hissing, or puffing that signify variously expulsion or renunciation of evil or of the devil (the Evil One), or infilling or blessing with good (especially, in religious use, with the Spirit or grace of God).
Jesus drives out a demon or unclean spirit, from the 15th-century Très Riches Heures. In English translations of the Bible, unclean spirit is a common rendering [1] of Greek pneuma akatharton (πνεῦμα ἀκάθαρτον; plural pneumata akatharta (πνεύματα ἀκάθαρτα)), which in its single occurrence in the Septuagint translates Hebrew ruaḥ tum'ah (רוּחַ ...
The Prayer of Jabez received the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Gold Medallion Book of the Year award in 2001. [6] The prayer, after being popularized by the book, "found its way into...House committee hearings on Capital Hill" by 2001. [7] Wilkinson was invited to the National Day of Prayer by President George W. Bush the same ...
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As families and friends prepare to gather for a celebratory Thanksgiving dinner, millions of food insecure Americans could use some extra acts of kindness and support this holiday season. More ...
Psalm 79 is the 79th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance".In the slightly different numbering system used in the Greek Septuagint and Latin Vulgate translations of the Bible, this psalm is Psalm 78.