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the Litany of Fervent Supplication (Slavonic: Ектения сугубая / Ekteniya Sugubaya) also sometimes Impetratory Litany, Augmented Litany, Fervent Litany: This litany is remarkable because of the fervor conveyed in the petitions, and heard audibly in the responses, as indicated by the threefold response of the choir, "Lord, have ...
The Lity or Litiyá (Greek: Λιτή (Liti), from litomai, "a fervent prayer") [1] is a festive religious procession, followed by intercessions, which augments great vespers (or, a few times a year, great compline) in the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic churches on important feast days (and, at least according to the written rubrics, any time there is an all-night vigil [2]).
Prayer can take a variety of forms: it can be part of a set liturgy or ritual, and it can be performed alone or in groups. Prayer may take the form of a hymn, incantation, formal creedal statement, or a spontaneous utterance in the praying person. The act of prayer is attested in written sources as early as five thousand years ago.
The Fervent Prayer: The Worldwide Impact of the Great Awakening of 1858, 1974. The Eager Feet: Evangelical Awakenings. 1790 – 1830, 1975. Evangelical Awakenings 1900- Worldwide, 1975. Update 2nd edition of The Fervent Prayer. Evangelical Awakenings in Africa, 1975. Evangelical Awakenings in Southern Asia, 1975.
Vespers (from Latin vesper 'evening' [1]) is a liturgy of evening prayer, one of the canonical hours in Catholic (both Latin and Eastern Catholic liturgical rites), Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Lutheran liturgies. The word for this prayer time comes from the Latin vesper, meaning "evening". [2]
a prayer for the fruit of the Communion and the final doxology. The 7th-century Sahidic Coptic version found in 1960 [ 13 ] 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 ...
and with the most fervent desire of my soul I pray and beseech Thee to impress upon my heart lively sentiments of faith, hope and charity, with true repentance for my sins and a most firm desire of amendment. Whilst with deep affection and grief of soul I consider within myself and mentally contemplate Thy five most precious wounds,
On the Day of Judgement, Kempis writes that a good and pure conscience will give more joy than all the philosophy one has ever learned, fervent prayer will bring more happiness than a "multi-course banquet", the silence will be more "exhilarating" than long tales, holy deeds will be of greater value than nice-sounding words (Chap. 24). [37]