The pastor offers a prayer for Carmen and others at the table.
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Whack's understandably fed up, but instead of blowing up in their face offers a prayer instead.
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The rare Sunni crossing its threshold still offers a prayer, but the Sunnis who once tended the shrine have been dismissed.
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In her tidy two-room cinder-block home, Mumo explained to me that when she wakes up in the morning, she offers a prayer of thanksgiving that God has allowed her husband, a livery-car conductor, to make enough money to pay for the cooking gas she needs to make the morning tea.
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Then the in-laws are seated adjacently and also marked with kumkum and given clothes by the lady's parents. The woman takes all these gifts, adorns herself, and goes to the deity and offers a prayer. Meanwhile, all women present are offered kumkum and paspu. The woman and the man come back and sit in the chairs.
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Frollo confronts Quasimodo and sends him back inside the cathedral. Phoebus refuses to arrest Esmeralda for alleged witchcraft inside Notre Dame and has her confined to the cathedral. Esmeralda, encouraged by the Archdeacon, offers a prayer to God to help her and the other outcasts ("Hilf den Verstoß'nen" – "God Help the Outcasts"). Meanwhile, Frollo orders Phoebus to post a guard at every door to ensure that Esmeralda does not escape.
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The fire plays a significant role in the ceremony, for it gets maintained throughout the ceremony by the Firemen. Towards the end, there comes time for some reflection and for anyone with any needs to come forward and ask for something. The Tobacco boss rolls another ceremonial cigarette, while a roadman offers a prayer to his participants. Water is offered to anyone who is thirsty after their spiritual experience.
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These ritual includes selecting the animal, then a priest offers a prayer to the animal, then recites the Gayatri Mantra in its ear before killing it. The meat of the sacrificed animal is then cooked and eaten by the Shakta devotees. In Nepal, animal sacrifice en masse occurs during the three- day-long Gadhimai festival. In 2009 it was speculated that more than 250,000 animals were sacrificed during this event.
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As they get to a ship, Marcus sees that one of those saved is Flavius and offers a prayer of thanksgiving. The prefect and his men try to get through a gate to take the ship for themselves. Marcus holds the gate shut, giving the boat enough time to get away at the cost of his life. He has a vision of Christ reaching out to him just before he dies.
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Charles Wesley's "Sinners, Turn: Why Will You Die" continues the theme, "Sinners, turn: why will you die? God, the Spirit, asks you why; he, who all your lives hath strove, wooed you to embrace his love" (emphasis added). His hymn "Depth of Mercy" offers a prayer to God, "Now incline me to repent, let me now my sins lament, now my foul revolt deplore, weep, believe, and sin no more" (emphasis added).
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For his arrival, he and his mosque built in Bohe Indangan, Simunul island in Tawi-Tawi are yearly celebrated in southern Philippines as anniversary of the coming of Karim’ul Makhdum. The celebration offers a prayer to commemorate the propagation of Islam in the Philippines. In 2005, Governor of Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Zaldy Ampatuan has appealed to Philippine government, Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries to rehabilitate the mosque and develop it to a religious tourist spot in south.
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She is assisted in getting up carefully with all the gifts in her wollu intact and taken to the deity's place where she offers a prayer and places the gifts (leaving five foods in the wollu) in a tray (these are consumed by the woman, man and children). Then the woman is fed with sweets and pulihora rice. She returns with her wollu and takes blessings from her in-laws, husband, sister-in-law, and parents by touching their feet. Then she places the rest of the food items in her wollu with the rest of the gifts near the Deity.
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This tradition is also found in other parts of South India such as Andhra Pradesh where it called Bommala Koluvu, and Karnataka where it is called Gombe Habba or Gombe totti.'Gombe habba' in all its splendour Deccan Herald (9 October 2013) Evidence of Gombe totti tradition as a Hindu celebration of the artisan arts goes back to at least the 14th-century Vijayanagara Empire. In the evening of "Vijayadasami", any one doll from the "Kolu" is symbolically put to sleep and the Kalasa is moved a bit towards North to mark the end of that year's Navaratri Kolu. The family offers a prayer of thanks, and wraps up the display.
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Lucius wakes up in a panic during the first watch of the night. Considering Fate to be done tormenting him, he takes the opportunity to purify himself by seven consecutive immersions in the sea. He then offers a prayer to the Queen of Heaven, for his return to human form, citing all the various names the goddess is known by to people everywhere (Venus, Ceres, Diana, Proserpine, etc.). The Queen of Heaven appears in a vision to him and explains to him how he can be returned to human form by eating the crown of roses that will be held by one of her priests during a religious procession the following day.
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