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  • I have a CD called Invocation which is various musicians performing and chanting their own variations of this Invocation.

    Clipmarks | Live Clips 2009

  • To _hallow Thy Name_ is to call upon it fervently, to have it constantly upon my lips; above all, before taking an important step, when there are difficulties to be overcome, I will softly whisper the Invocation, which is the secret of all holy living!

    Gold Dust A Collection of Golden Counsels for the Sanctification of Daily Life Adrien Sylvain 1870

  • Around the screen, in London's Sprüth Magers gallery, a bunch of 21st-century trendies and stoners are watching this film, called Invocation of My Demon Brother, in awe, their ages ranging from late teens to late 80s.

    Film | guardian.co.uk Simon Hattenstone 2010

  • I gotta say, that regardless of how this whole "Invocation" thing is going, it's a nice change to hear Rick Warren's views discussed openly, and having the media narrative be all about how he's an anti-gay oogedy-boogedy fundie, and not the false previous CW that he was some kind of "third way" love-everyone brings-us-all-together type, a reputation he had been able to coast on up until now.

    Rick Warren: Syria Treats Jews Really Well 2009

  • I gotta say, that regardless of how this whole "Invocation" thing is going, it's a nice change to hear Rick Warren's views discussed openly, and having the media narrative be all about how he's an anti-gay oogedy-boogedy fundie, and not the false previous CW that he was some kind of "third way" love-everyone brings-us-all-together type, a reputation he had been able to coast on up until now.

    Rick Warren: Syria Treats Jews Really Well 2009

  • The Invocation of the Holy Trinity in the 1st Section is very full, and should be compared with the Invocation which is used in Section ii. as a preface to the Lord's Prayer.

    The Prayer Book Explained Percival Jackson

  • The book starts (after an "Invocation," proper to its scheme but perhaps not specially attractive "to us") with an account of the household of

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

  • The "Invocation," written nearly a score of years after Hallam's death, reveals Tennyson's personal conquest of pain.

    Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors Elbert Hubbard 1885

  • Third Canto of _Childe Harold_ (especially stanzas lxix. -lxxv., and cxi. -cxviii.), and with the "Invocation" in the first act of _Manfred_.

    The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • Dew-Scented Reveals New Album, "Invocation," Artwork posted Apr 3, 2010 at 6: 26 PM by zMETALlica.

    Metal Underground.com 2010

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