Prayers and sacred readings - What you can do

You can use Cinnaminta to help someone else by reading their prayers or sacred readings out aloud in a special location near you which they cannot easily visit. You can submit your own requests for prayers or sacred texts to be read anywhere in the world.

In the prayers and sacred readings category you can:

• browse the reading request listings and offer to read out aloud a prayer or sacred reading for someone. e.g. a prayer, text, supplication, devotion, communion, chant, oblation, liturgy, sura, psalm, recitation, petition, etc.;
• add your own request for a reading of a prayer or sacred reading at a special location and / or particular time;
• search the member profiles to find a reader with a suitable style for your own request who can reach your special location, e.g. place, shrine, mosque, church, monument, mountain, temple, chapel, abbey, kirk, synagogue, chantry, oratory, basilica, cathedral, tabernacle, stone circle, place of worship, anywhere around the world; and
• use the private members message service to discuss and develop the reading/prayer style with the reader and, possibly, develop the text to achieve a unique and very personal performance, or
• record your own reading (uses the Request form - select 'I want to read/perform/deliver this request myself').

You can search the requests to see what prayers and sacred readings other people would like to have read out aloud or you can browse another reading category using the links in the right hand margin of this page.

Cinnaminta provides facilities for a multi-media recording of the reading event to be stored, free, in your own private archive, shared with the requester, the reader, their friends and family or, if appropriate, the whole world.

You can also search the public archive of completed readings to:

• see what prayers or scared texts other people have written and read out aloud; and
• see how other people have read prayers and sacred texts.

How will you 'Reach out from the internet and light a candle at a remote shrine'.

Before starting, please read what is Cinnaminta? and the Guidance section to understand:

• how to make the most of Cinnaminta;
• safety advice for members, writers, requesters and readers.

regards, Cinnaminta