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Rev. Daniel Waldo (1762–1864), Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives 1856-1857. The election of William Linn as first chaplain of the House on May 1, 1789, continued the tradition established by the Second Continental Congress of each day's proceedings opening with a prayer by a chaplain. Shortly after Congress first convened in April ...
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.
Narcotics Anonymous uses a 12-step model developed for people with varied substance use disorders [2] and is the second-largest 12-step organization, [3] after 12-step pioneer Alcoholics Anonymous. As of May 2018 there were more than 70,000 NA meetings in 144 countries.
Contents. Alcoholics Anonymous. Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a global, peer-led mutual-aid fellowship dedicated to abstinence-based recovery from alcoholism through its spiritually inclined twelve-step program. [ 1 ] AA’s Twelve Traditions, besides stressing anonymity and the lack of a governing hierarchy, establish AA as free to all, non ...
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:
In 1844, G. B. Gardner and Jesse C. Little published a small hymnal in Bellows Falls, Vermont. This unofficial hymnbook is unique in early LDS history, because it was the first Latter-day Saint hymnal to include music with the words. This hymnal includes tunes for 18 of the 90 hymns found in the 1835 hymnbook.
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]
Call to prayer. A call to prayer is a summons for participants of a faith to attend a group worship or to begin a required set of prayers. The call is one of the earliest forms of telecommunication, communicating to people across great distances. All religions have a form of prayer, and many major religions have a form of the call to prayer.