Prayer for the dead is almost a battle with the reality of death and destruction that weighs down upon the earthly existence of man. This is and remains a particular revelation of the Resurrection.

Do we take the time to pray for them? (Because, if we don’t, who will?) This category might also include a deceased spouse (which is often also an opportunity to make the petition of the Our ...

Rather than abandon prayer in the face of tragedy, Judaism asks us to deepen it. We do not pray to overturn nature but to ...

“Wow” — shevach in Hebrew, or praiseworthiness — is about God’s awesomeness. Rabbi Spodek said he spends a minute or two pondering the miracle that is creation. That there is a (narrowing) climate in ...

Please join us in prayer: God, Who, in Thine ineffable providence, didst will that Thy servant Francis ... should be numbered among the high priests; grant, we beseech Thee, that he, who on earth ...

Rochester, N.Y. (WHAM) — Community members gathered Friday night at Greater Harvest Church to pray and support one another following the death of a 15-year-old student from Rochester's School of ...