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Pray it implies express religious prayers. It is a term that has a special presence in the context of religions. “After the confession, the priest entrusted me as penance to pray two Our Fathers.”

Express prayers in the framework of a religious context to thank, to make a request ...

Prayer is the means available to the believer to communicate directly with God, with a saint, or with a deceased, either to make a request, to express some thought or emotion personal or to express gratitude for a certain circumstance that was longed for and has finally been achieved.

Generally, when the believer goes through painful situations such as the disease of a loved one, or when immersed in a difficult context such as the loss of job with all the problems that this implies of not being able to support himself and his familyIt is common for him to turn to his faith, to his God, to ask him to help him overcome this complex trance.

Where, to whom, and why do we believers pray

This request is normally made in a religious and sacred environment such as a church, or in the intimacy of the house, God is asked and spoken and prayers and prayers are often said to him and others Saints.

This practice relieves and reassures the believer who of course places all his faith that he will receive that help; It is also common that as a commitment he makes a promise before God, and when what he asked for becomes concrete, it materializes, of course he will be obliged to fulfill that commitment.

There are many faithful who despite having achieved what they asked God so much through prayer never fails to fulfill that promise they made before him, at that moment of despair. And every year they renew it as a way of gratitude eternal. Obviously this behavior does nothing more than bring the person closer to God and to commit even more to his faith.

In Argentina especially, and in other parts of the world, when people look for work they pray especially to a saint: San Cayetano. This Italian priest, canonized in the seventeenth century by Pope Clement X, is the patron of bread and work, and for example, it is that people worship him and go to pray to his temples to ask him to help them get a job, keep it, thank him for having it, or intercede for someone who does not have it and needs to.

In Argentina, every August 7, the day his death is remembered, the followers of this saint They lead their parish and even spend nights in vigil to give thanks or to ask for bread and job.

Depending on the religion, prayer can take the form of a pious practice, which the individual carries out privately, publicly, collectively or individually, at a special moment or not; the part of a rite that is recited in front of the community, such is the case of the Christian mass; and one obligation per se, such as being prescribed 5 times by the Islam.

Normally, the prayer is accompanied by a special physical posture such as putting the palms together, showing the open hands, opening the arms in a cross, with the head looking up at the sky, lowering the gaze and hiding the face between the hands, performing rocking movements, prostration, kneeling or bowing, between other For example, Muslim prayer establishes a ritual of codified postures, which includes the orientation towards Mecca.

Among the prayers commonly prayed by Christians are: the Our Father, the Hail Mary, the rosary, the patriotic glory, the salve, the magnificat, among other.

In the Muslim religion the recitation of prayers is the second of the pillars established by Islam and is called salat or namaz.

The Jewish religion also requires its faithful to pray, upon awakening, at dusk, after each meal; likewise, there are special blessings in the case of joys and strictly prohibits those that ask for someone's evil.

The word pray also means the recitation of the mass or of a prayer.

What is written

And also, the word pray is repeatedly used to give an account of that contained in a writing. “All the posters of the manifestation they prayed: enough of violence union!”.

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