prayer intentions
Hopes offered heavenward
Prayer intentions are the specific concerns, hopes, or needs that a person brings to prayer—requests for healing, guidance, gratitude, or intercession on behalf of others.
In Catholic and some other Christian traditions, prayer intentions are often shared publicly or submitted to be remembered during Mass: We added her name to the prayer intentions.
The phrase emphasizes that prayer is directed toward particular purposes rather than offered abstractly.
- petitionsFormal requests for action
- intercessionActing on another's behalf
- requestsFormal expressions of want
- supplicationsHumble, earnest requests
- devotionsReligious worship practices
rosary · novena · candles · vigil · laying on hands · healing · blessing · divine intervention · gratitude · hope · faith · needs · burden · heart · souls · departed · guidance · protection
prayer intentionsblasphemy
Irreverence toward the sacred
cursing God · sacrilege · profanity · godlessness · apostasy
prayer intentionscurses
Sworn oaths or hexes
maledictions · hexes · imprecations · ill wishes · evil eye
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