The priest blessed the congregation.

This atmosphere is becoming fun like congregation

The congregation was moved by the fine sermon.

The church congregation was moved by the fine sermon.

The priest blessed the congregation at the end of the mass.

Or do they say, 'We are a congregation that shall be succoured?'

Entering, I found a small scattered congregation of sailors, and sailors' wives and widows.

Then there was the congregation who had left their usual church building on the shore to hold a service in the hills.

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here in the sight of God, and in the face of this congregation, to join together this man and this woman...

I sometimes see when I'm speaking to a congregation of religious people a sort of mutinous expression crossing their faces because people often want to be right instead.

I found myself standing in front of my congregation intelligent, well meaning, mostly thoughtful Christian people and I needed to express, on their behalf, our feelings and our questions.

But he also loved his congregation, and you could feel this love in the sermons that he gave every week for the 62 years that he was a rabbi.

O believers, when proclamation is made for prayer on the Day of Congregation, hasten to God's remembrance and leave trafficking aside that is better for you, did you but know.

O you who believe! When the call is made for prayer on Congregation Day, hasten to the remembrance of God, and drop all business. That is better for you, if you only knew.

O you who believe, when the call to prayer is made on the day of congregation, hasten to remember God, putting aside your business. This is better for you if you can understand.

For every congregation We have appointed acts of devotion, which they observe. So do not let them dispute with you in this matter. And invite to your Lord you are upon a straight guidance.

Had God willed, He would have made you one congregation, but He leaves astray whom He wills, and He guides whom He wills. And you will surely be questioned about what you used to do.

Believers! When the call to prayer is made on the day of congregation, hasten to the remembrance of God, and leave all worldly commerce this is for your own good, if you but knew it.

O People who Believe! When the call for prayer is given on (Friday) the day of congregation, rush towards the remembrance of Allah and stop buying and selling this is better for you if you understand.

O ye who believe! When the call is heard for the prayer of the day of congregation, haste unto remembrance of Allah and leave your trading. That is better for you if ye did but know.

Believers, when you are called to prayer on the Day of the Congregation (Friday), hasten to the Remembrance of Allah and put your trading to oneside. That is the best for you, if you but knew.

And when thou seest those who meddle with Our revelations, withdraw from them until they meddle with another topic. And if the devil cause thee to forget, sit not, after the remembrance, with the congregation of wrong doers.

Underneath this ceremonial role, he was really modest and really introverted so much so that when he delivered these sermons, he had trouble making eye contact with the very same congregation that he had been speaking to for 62 years.

I had not been seated very long ere a man of a certain venerable robustness entered immediately as the storm pelted door flew back upon admitting him, a quick regardful eyeing of him by all the congregation, sufficiently attested that this fine old man was the chaplain.

And he answered it by telling the story of the man who fell among thieves, and how religious authorities went the other way, and how their supporters in the congregation went the other way but an unsuspecting, despised person came along, saw the man in need, provided oil and wine for his wounds, put him on his own transportation, and took him to the inn and asked the innkeeper, Take care of him.

Whether any of the relatives of the seamen whose names appeared there were now among the congregation, I knew not but so many are the unrecorded accidents in the fishery, and so plainly did several women present wear the countenance if not the trappings of some unceasing grief, that I feel sure that here before me were assembled those, in whose unhealing hearts the sight of those bleak tablets sympathetically caused the old wounds to bleed afresh.