Possible Clues:

• Put match to some list of complaints
• Prayer of invocation to the saints
• This made light of any response in it
• Long and tedious series showed up a city in US
• Liturgical prayer
• Made light of any response to this
• Having lighted this, does one get any response to it?
• Lay tin down on the prayer
• Do you get any response, having put a match to it?
• Succession of requests