Words similar to manda
Example sentences for: manda
How can you use “manda” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
A manda may be completed after the request is fulfilled in thanksgiving, or it may be fulfilled before the petition is answered, with the assumption that it will be answered.
If a woman makes a manda asking for a cure to her child’s illness and the child is cured but she does not complete the manda, the child may become ill again.
Lighting daily candles could be a financial strain, and a pilgrimage may take several years to complete, yet neither is ever forgotten, and a manda is taken more seriously than a legal written contract.
In folk religious practices a manda is interpreted as a promise or contract made with a saint, the Virgin Mary, or God.
In many families the shrine is erected as the result of a promesa or manda (promise or vow) made to a particular saint, or in memory of a family member who has died.