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The National Day of Prayer is an annual day of observance designated by the United States Congress and held on the first Thursday of May, when people are asked "to turn to God in prayer and meditation". The president is required by law (36 U.S.C. § 119) to sign a proclamation each year, encouraging all Americans to pray on this day.
Apr. 30—Lawrence County will be celebrating National Day of Prayer at noon on Thursday on the steps of the Lawrence County Courthouse. This year's theme is "Lift up the Word, Light up the world."
The first National Day of Prayer was created in 1952 by both houses of Congress and signed into law by President Harry S. Truman after a young evangelist named Billy Graham made a big push to make ...
1st Sunday after Labor Day: National Grandparents' Day; weekend before September 11: National Days of Prayer and Remembrance; September 11: Patriot Day; September 11: Emergency Number Day [15] 3rd Friday in September National POW/MIA Recognition Day POW☆ MIA Flag. September 17: Constitution Day and Citizenship Day and Constitution Week
A crowd of more than 150 people gathered for a service that was held in front of Florida’s Historic Capitol recognizing National Day of Prayer on Thursday, May 2, 2024.
The text of the Matthean Lord's Prayer in the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible ultimately derives from first Old English translations. Not considering the doxology, only five words of the KJV are later borrowings directly from the Latin Vulgate (these being debts, debtors, temptation, deliver, and amen). [1]
Jesus teaching the Lord's Prayer to his disciples, as imagined by James Tissot (late 19th century). The word is visible in the Hanna Papyrus 1 (𝔓 75), the oldest surviving witness for certain New Testament passages. [6] Epiousion is the only adjective in the Lord's Prayer.
Crucifixion of Jesus with the Penitent Thief and the impenitent thief (central image of the Bockstorfer Altar in the Cathedral of Konstanz, painted in 1524). Day of Prayers for Prisoners is a Polish Catholic holiday celebrated since 2009 every year on 26 March, established on the memorial day of Penitent Thief (known also as Good Thief, a patron of prisoners).