invocation

How To Use invocation In A Sentence

• The judge was making the point that the Pledge, in its current incarnation, is only about 50 – 60 years old and that the language “under God” was inserted at a particular time in response to concerns of that time and that the Pledge is not some sacrosanct invocation from the founders. The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Reinhardt’s Dig on Sarah Palin
• After the drivers were introduced by a traveling emcee called ‘The Motor Mouth,’ an invocation and the national anthem, cars left at one-minute intervals to cheers from the crowd.
• These should include the Lord's Prayer, a confession and absolution, a short reading from the Gospels with a request to our Lord for his help, and an invocation of the Holy Spirit.
• Works like these are the focal point of a community's spiritual life, prayers, and invocations for ancestral intervention.
• In the East, they also delegated the chrismation and invocation of the HS, but in the West, the bishops reserved these things to themselves. Stand Firm
• After the invocational four-poem opening of 'Let's Just Say,' the book moves to 'Some of These Daze,' Bernstein's prose dispatches in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, and on to the acerbic intimacies of 'World on Fire,' which critiques clichés like 'what are we fighting for?' The Chicago Blog: Press Release: Bernstein, Girly Man
• And invocation of religious belief did not necessarily provide a defence to what was otherwise a valid claim. Times, Sunday Times
• refrain from using Christ's name or title or any other denominational appeal" during invocations and instead use "nonsectarian" names for God. The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines
• And unlike the elegies the sonnets are predominantly poems of invocation, apostrophe and direct address, he writes.
• In a similar way, the ritual invocation of "what about the Russians? Red Hunting in the Promised Land: Anticommunism and the Making of America