contemplative prayer

collocation in English

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contemplative
adjective
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/kənˈtem.plə.tɪv/us
/kənˈtem.plə.t̬ɪv/
involving quiet and serious thought for a period ...
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prayer
noun
uk
/preər/us
/prer/
the words that someone says or thinks when they ...
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(Definition ofcontemplativeandprayerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They ate frugal meals, and spent their days both incontemplativeprayerand interceding on behalf of others.
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It also is used in liturgy and as a form ofcontemplativeprayer.
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The daily life of a missionary involves several hours of silentcontemplativeprayer.
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Women are engaged in a variety of vocations, fromcontemplativeprayer, to teaching, providing health care and working as missionaries.
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As mentioned by the congregation, peace is the fruit of a life based on four fundamental values:contemplativeprayer, conversion, poverty, and minority (humility).
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Both authors deal with the subject ofcontemplativeprayer, the deep form of prayer followed in monastic orders.
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Incontemplativeprayer, this activity is curtailed, so that contemplation has been described as a gaze of faith, a silent love.
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Women religious engage in a variety of occupations, fromcontemplativeprayer, to teaching, to providing health care, to working as missionaries.
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The school is now a retreat center for individual and group retreats, in addition to hosting presentations oncontemplativeprayer.
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Other writers viewcontemplativeprayerin its infused supernatural form as far from common.
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A person's place in society, views on social activism, and various approaches towardcontemplativeprayer and living became constant themes in his writings.
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It is regarded by writers on mystical theology as one of the degrees of contemplation orcontemplativeprayer, and must be distinguished therefore from meditation and from affective prayer.
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