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The Rev. Jacob Duché leading the first prayer for the Second Continental Congress, Philadelphia, September 7, 1774. Prayer before the opening of a legislative body traces its origins back to the colonial period. At that time, before the Constitution and its amendments separated church and colonial assemblies would open proceedings with prayer.
Imam Yusuf Saleem delivers opening prayer as Guest Chaplain, October 24, 2001 Rabbi Levi Shemtov delivers opening prayer as Guest Chaplain, September 17, 1998. The inclusion of a prayer before the opening of each session of both the House and the Senate, traces its origins back to the days of the Continental Congress, and the official recommendation of Benjamin Franklin, June 28, 1787:
Since 1937, the United States presidential inauguration has included one or more prayers given by members of the clergy. [1] [2] Since 1933 an associated prayer service either public or private attended by the president-elect has often taken place on the morning of the day. [3]
Sacrament meeting was the last meeting of the day on Sunday. In 1980, the church's First Presidency started the current "block" schedule, in which almost all church meetings were held in the space of three hours. [4] In October 2018, church president Russell M. Nelson announced plans to consolidate the Sunday meeting schedule. As a part of ...
The event—which is actually a series of meetings, luncheons, and dinners—has taken place since 1953 and has been held at least since the 1980s at the Washington Hilton on Connecticut Avenue NW. The National Prayer Breakfast, held in the Hilton's International Ballroom, is yearly attended by some 3,500 guests, including international ...
A prayer meeting in Victoria Square, Birmingham. A prayer meeting is a group of lay people getting together for the purpose of prayer as a group. [1] Prayer meetings are typically conducted outside regular services by one or more members of the clergy or other forms of religious leadership, but they may also be initiated by decision of non-leadership members as well.
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The Latin word collēcta meant the gathering of the people together (from colligō, "to gather") and may have been applied to this prayer as said before the procession to the church in which Mass was celebrated. It may also have been used to mean a prayer that collected into one the prayers of the individual members of the congregation. [1] [2]