After a time of silence, all join in prayers of intercession, or in one of the litanies or other prayers. All then join hands for the Lord's Prayer: Our Father.

Gassho-zukuri means construction resembling hands joined in prayer, as these farmhouse’s steeply slanted thatched roofs bear an uncanny resemblance to the clasped hands of a person engaged in ...

removed the scoops visitors used at the shrine's water purification basin to wash their hands to stop them from getting infected. She took the prayer bell down, too, and the rope used to ring it ...