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Remembers spiritual lessons with short prayers (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

recollects

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'remembers' is the definition.
('recollect' can be a synonym of 'remember')

'spiritual lessons with short prayers' is the wordplay.
'spiritual lessons' becomes 're' (Religious Education. I am not sure about the 'spiritual' bit.).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'short prayers' becomes 'collects' (a 'collect' is a type of short prayer; 'short' indicates a short form).
're'+'collects'='RECOLLECTS'

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(Another definition for recollects that I've seen is " Remembers".)

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