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There’s a ritual that happens every time we feel the itch for reinvention. A new season, a milestone birthday, the start of a ...

According to Grammy Award-winner Chandrika Tandon and other devotional musicians, the melodic repetition of Vedic mantras, ...

"The prayer of the Church venerates and honors the Heart of Jesus . . . which, out of love for men, he allowed to be pierced by our sins." 2 Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is of great ...

The better we come to know our anger, the better we understand ourselves. The better we understand ourselves, the less power ...

About 90% of the 57,000 Greenlanders identify as Inuit and the vast majority of them belong to the Lutheran Church today, ...

Being an organist might seem like a solitary job, but German maestro Leo Krämer never feels too far from his listeners ...

By his own self-oblation and desire for the ... devotion of the Stations of the Cross. As a devotion, the stations allow us to take our loved ones to the cross and ask for their conversion ...

Patina Miller and Mekai Curtis play a complex mother-son drug-lord duo in the long-running 50 Cent- and Courtney ...

The devotion or the meditation might bring up a topic, and then you can go read something about that topic or pray through that topic or something like that. One of the most powerful things ...

The name, which is given to the meeting point of the holy Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati rivers, said singer Tandon, came to her in one of her ... she found, was devotional music.