Possible Clues:

• New cooking equipment for assembly - pray that goes well over the nine days
• Nine consecutive days of prayer or worship
• North first to be fitted with heater for extended devotions
• Religious prayer
• Absence of archdeacon to lead a devotion
• Nine-day series of Catholic prayers
• Special prayers on nine successive days
• Protracted prayer
• Religious ritual
• Cooker installed in N America gets extended service period