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Victims of Helene and the volunteers who have gathered to help them gathered in churches and parking lots for prayer and services Saturday and Sunday, a week after the disastrous storm’s initial ...
Invocative prayers said by a Catholic bishop. Fresco by Italian Artist Lorenzo Lotto, Suardi, Italy, c. 1524.. Oratio Imperata (Latin, "Obligatory Prayer") is a set of Roman Catholic invocative prayers consisting of the liturgical action and a short, general prayer in which the local ordinary or prelate of the church may publicly pray when a grave need or calamity occurs.
The phrase thoughts and prayers is frequently used in the United States as an expression of condolences for victims of natural disasters (e.g. Hurricane Katrina in 2005, [8] [9] the 2010 Canterbury earthquake [10] 2011 Christchurch earthquake, [11] [12] [13] the 2017 Central Mexico earthquake, and Hurricane Maria in 2017 [1]).
After the tornado outbreak of April 2011, which killed 24 people in North Carolina and nearby states, Burbidge urged Catholics to include the victims and survivors in their Holy Week prayers. [8] He directed the parish and mission churches to hold a special collection for the disaster survivors. [9]
As Mass was celebrated Sunday at New Orleans' St. Louis Cathedral, just blocks from where a man sped down Bourbon Street in a deadly attack last week, a church leader acknowledged the sense of unease that remains and asked for prayers for victims and their families. “We can choose to fear," the Very Rev. Patrick Williams told those gathered.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — At a Mass celebrated Sunday at New Orleans' St. Louis Cathedral, just blocks from where a man sped down Bourbon Street in a deadly attack early on New Year's Day, a church leader acknowledged the sense of unease that remains and asked for prayers for victims and their families.
A community prayer service is being held Sunday evening at Cottonwood Creek Church in Allen after eight victims were killed and seven wounded by a gunman on Saturday at Allen Premium Outlets mall ...
The sounds of sobbing, prayers and anguish echoed through the departures hall of an airport in southwestern South Korea on Monday as families of the victims aboard a passenger jet that crash ...