26 January 2020
Word of the Day: Chain Prayer
CHAIN PRAYER. A superstitious practice that consists in the saying of
certain prayers successively by many individuals who hope for the favors received,
not so much from God's goodness as from the magic effect of this unbroken series
of prayers. In its most common form a written or printed prayer is sent to the
person who is to form one link in the chain and is asked to say this prayer
and to continue the chain by persuading others to take up the praying where
he or she leaves off. These in turn are to pass the prayer on to still others.
The efficacy of the practice, therefore, is mainly in the chain and not in the
prayer. All forms of chain prayer are superstition and correspondingly sinful.
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