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God calls his people to act as his hands and feet and voice, serving the people in the community and communicating to them, in Word & Deed, God's love. Part of Faith Community's action in that way includes making weekly trips to Wenceslas Square to pray for the city, and to speak God's love into the lives of the people who find themselves there.
St Michael's church supply is gone now, and Zip has become "Nice". Long after the church supply went under, they continued to operate Mary's House of Prayer, next door. Always wondered what that was like inside. Now there are are a few New Age/yoga/fake Buddhist type places on the block. Supply and demand, I guess.
These are inspired by Tibetan prayer flags, which Buddhist monks hang on the high steppes so the prayers printed on them can be whisked into the universe with help from the elements. I wanted something more culturally relevant than Sanskrit sutras, so I made my own with icons of the hand-made and the natural world. Flags are 9x6 inches each, cut from repurposed bedsheets, and zig-zag stitched to selvage from rolls of upholstery fabric. Images are painted with hand-cut stencils in water-based, low VOC spraypaint.
A prayer candle sits in front of a statue of Buddha in Suncorp Piazza at Southbank for the Buddha Birth day Festival.
John Kramp, Vice President of LifeWay Chrisitan Resources, offers a prayer of dedication and thanks for the new Baptist Hymnal.
Portland's famous landmark and church, The Grotto, has a traditional Pietà sculpted at the base of a 110 foot cliff. Here, the public can come light prayer candles, attend mass, or just meditate in the scenery. You can barely make out the statue at the top of Our Sorrowful Mother looking over the city.
Cenotaph for the A-bomb Victims.
This monument was built with the desire to reconstruct Hiroshima─the city destroyed by the world's first atomic bombing─as a city of peace. It was designed by Kenzo Tange, then a professor at the University of Tokyo. It resembles an ancient arch-shaped house, in part because of the desire to shelter the souls of the victims from the elements. The monument is inscribed with the words, "Let all the souls here rest in peace, for we shall not repeat the evil." The stone chest in the center holds the registry of the names of persons who died from the bombing, regardless of nationality. Names are added when persons related to a death make application. As of August 6, 2001, the registry comprises 77 volumes that list a total of 221,893 names.
Source: www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/
In the neighbourhood of some mountain huts one finds buddist prayer pennons refering to the alliance of the european mountaineers with their himalayan colleagues.
Making myself a promise for next year, celebrating 60 on the Annapurna trail in Nepal.
prayer flags have five colours, blue, white, red, green and yellow...symbolising the five element which contains in everything that exist in this universe and there are prayers written on them. Tibetans believe that when the wind blows, the prayers written on it are carried to every corners of this world.
This was taken just outside of the Chapel at the Santa Barbara Mission. We all stand in need of a little prayer.
U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers from the 200th Military Police Command's headquarters company participate in a prayer breakfast organized and hosted by the chaplain's office during battle assembly at Fort Meade, Maryland, May 15. (U.S. Army photo by Master Sgt. Michel Sauret)
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prayer is a hopeful thing appealing to something bigger and more beautiful than our mundane daily interactions.
We placed little boats with candles into the Ganges River. One for loved ones gone, one for loved ones at home, and one for ourselves.
On a walk through Haw Park Woods we came upon this tree, not dissimilar to the Cloutie tree we saw at Samye Ling. It was fetooned with faded ribbons, each with either a name or a message. Some were for wishes like 'ice skating lessons' or 'to be a footballer' but I felt this encapsulated the concept.
Some ragged prayer flags on location at the Kagyu Mila Guru Stupa near Questa, NM. My daughter and I were able to take a little time to stop and enjoy the wonderful sights and sounds at this beautiful and holy place. The flags almost were singing as wind made them flutter in the cool breeze. I was also able to get an opportunity to work on a little DOF with this photo.
We all went to a bike race in Solvang. My good friend starts out his day with prayer as we get dressed to ride. I have my camera and the surrounding and early morning light are unbelievable. This is shot at a very low resolution and is shot far out on a 24-70 lens so it's soft on the focus and looks painted ; but this is how the photo looks. I just did a bit of cropping.
This was the first WIUX PRESENTS show of the new, 2010 spring semester. The bill was Cast Spells with local bands Prayer Breakfast and Osteoferocious.
Click here to read the interview and listen to some audio by the bands at WIUX.ORG.
Review written by Nicole O'Neal
Pictures by Anthony Bozanich