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Down the mountainside from the road two large platforms had been erected with what was, from my estimate, 1,000 or more vertical prayer flags. Once again, nobody was around to ask about it. Our guide thought there might be a small monastic school nearby.
Note about the pole tops: Many of the vertical prayer flag poles are simply tree branches, or sometimes saplings. Some have parts of the tree left at the very top: That is the simplest type of pole. Many have decorations mounted on the top, as do these, that replicate spear points. Some are more highly detailed, but most have a relatively plain appearance - gold and white being common. In a few instances the poles are topped with a more conical like gold painted pear shaped decoration (symbol for joy). If I understand correctly, more merit is earned by the erector when using a carved decorated top on the pole. I have no idea how the merit works out relative to the shape and color scheme.
Graves at Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, with prayer ties
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The good news for those who utter these words is that god will hear you and answer your prayer ; the bad news is that sometimes the answer is no
Notre-Dame Basilica (French: Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal) is a basilica in the historic district of Old Montreal, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The church is located at 110 Notre-Dame Street West, at the corner of Saint Sulpice Street. It is located next to the Saint-Sulpice Seminary and faces the Place d'Armes square.
The church's Gothic Revival architecture is among the most dramatic in the world; its interior is grand and colourful, its ceiling is coloured deep blue and decorated with golden stars, and the rest of the sanctuary is a polychrome of blues, azures, reds, purples, silver, and gold. It is filled with hundreds of intricate wooden carvings and several religious statues. Unusual for a church, the stained glass windows along the walls of the sanctuary do not depict biblical scenes, but rather scenes from the religious history of Montreal. It also has a Casavant Frères pipe organ, which comprises four keyboards, 97 stops, almost 7000 individual pipes and a pedal board. (source: Wikipedia)
Esmeralda Guzman, SEC Hispanic Ministries Secretary
Pr. Hubert Morel, SEC President
Pr. Roger Alvarez, SEC Hispanic Ministries Coordinator
Pr. Israel Leito, Inter-American Division President
At the TshuglagKhang....Mcleodganj.
A prayer wheel is a 'wheel' (Tibetan: 'khor) on a spindle made from metal, wood, leather, or even coarse cotton. On the wheel are depicted or encapsulated prayers, mantras and symbols such as the Ashtamangala. According to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, spinning such a wheel will have much the same effect as orally reciting the prayers.The Dalai Lama has commented that animated GIF's on websites work just as well as other prayer wheels.[As the GIF image turns, waves of compassion in all directions in the surrounding area.
Some have suggested that the the spinning of a hard drive (several thousand rotations per minute) can act in similar function to a prayer wheel by saving an image of Om mani padme hum or other mantra on their local machine.
Every evening these men would gather on the front lawn in order to conduct their evening prayers. Most nights the man you see in the front here would lead the prayers, but sometimes someone else would do it.
Every other time I've been to Qatar for scoring, they have not prayed outside like this. Instead they pray inside one of the scoring rooms.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009:
Opening Mass-Great Upper Church
Principal Celebrant & Homilist: Cardinal Justin F. Rigali, Chairman, USCCB Committee for Pro-Life Activities
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Prayer flags blow in the stiff wind over the Mekong River in Tibet.
The Leukos worship team after Friday Night Worship at the bandshell - in a spontaneous prayer circle.
For the Shutter Divas Challenge: "Close your Eyes, Open your heart"
"Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness."
Richard C. Trench
Once Again My Friend Persjha, posed for me to get this lovely shot =0)
This mosque is part of a mosque-and-library complex in casablanca funded by the Saudi governement. I was on my way to the library, perhaps the best research library in Morocco, as Friday prayer was letting out of the mosque. This mosque draws and interesting mix of people; these pictures show a cross section of the people there that day.
Thoughts and prayers are with those who died, their loved one, and the injured at last night's concert at the IN State Fair. A wind gust front at 60-70mph came in ahead of a rain storm causing the scaffolding on stage to collapse.
This is actually the prayer chapel at work...
The D100 is in for a service so for the next 10 days or so I'll be a bit restricted to taking pics with the cam that belongs to our office... and thus taking pix onsite... that's a whole new level of having to get creative...