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[24] [22] The practice of ablutions before prayer and worship in Christianity symbolizes "separation from sins of the spirit and surrender to the Lord." [22] The Bible has many rituals of purification relating to menstruation, childbirth, sexual relations, nocturnal emission, unusual bodily fluids, skin disease, death, and animal sacrifices.
Then, the Catena Legionis is prayed, and the Spiritual Director (or, if absent, the President), preaches a short sermon on spiritual matters (allocutio). Finally, new tasks for Legionaires are distributed. Each meeting ends with concluding prayers of the Tessera, and a prayer for Duff's beatification. [8]
Saint Michael is the traditional prototype of the spiritual warrior, a paradigm extended to other warrior saints. This conflict against evil may at times be viewed as an interior battle. The concept of the warrior saint has extended to other Catholic saints, beginning with examples such as Saint George and Saint Theodore of Amasea. [9]
Within the context of dominion theology, prayer warriors see themselves as engaged in spiritual warfare against satanic forces. [1] Prayer warriors may pray for individuals, or for entire states or regions. One recent development has been prayer undertaken by groups of people flying over the areas for which they wish to undertake intercession. [2]
The name first appears in the Hebrew Bible in the Book of Numbers 13:13, where Sethur the son of Michael is one of 12 spies sent into the Land of Canaan. Michael is the name of an archangel in the Book of Daniel 12:1 .
Saint Patrick's Breastplate" is an Old Irish prayer of protection of the "lorica" type (hence "Lorica Sancti Patricii", or "The Lorica of Saint Patrick") attributed to Saint Patrick. Its title is given as Faeth Fiada in the 11th-century Liber Hymnorum that records the text.
Metalwork reproducing Èzili Dantò's vèvè. Èzili Dantò or Erzulie Dantor is the main loa (or lwa) or senior spirit of the Petro family in Haitian Vodou.Ezili Danto, or Èzili Dantò, is the "manifestation of Erzulie, the divinity of love."
Maranatha (Aramaic: מרנאתא ) is an Aramaic phrase which occurs once in the New Testament (1 Corinthians 16:22).It also appears in Didache 10:14. [1] It is transliterated into Greek letters rather than translated and, given the nature of early manuscripts, the lexical difficulty rests in determining just which two Aramaic words constitute the single Greek expression.