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...Base. At the stadium, where at this time of year preparations are usually being made for a World Series rather than a world event, carpenters and clergymen moved in to replace the grounds keepers, carefully hung papal decorations about the upper decks, and constructed a super-secure elevated wooden altar behind second base, with fire-retarding carpeting on the 13 steps and extra steel reinforcement in the scaffolding...
...painter before achieving recognition for his meticulous drawings of humanized machines and mechanized humans. He produced four one-man exhibits in Paris, illustrated more than 50 books, wrote two children's fables (Poor Shaydullah, Seven Simeons), designed ballet settings, women's clothes, murals, and a Parisian cathedral altar-all of which he created in the belief that "any object which is beautiful and useful" becomes...
...even more central teaching of the Roman Catholic Church: the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. In England, Germany, and especially The Netherlands, a number of speculative theologians are independently reconsidering transubstantiation-the Catholic teaching that at the consecration of the Mass, the bread and wine on the altar miraculously but truly become the body and blood of Christ. They propose instead what they call "transignification" -that is, the change does not take place in the substance of the bread and wine but in its meaning...
Representing the Boston Medical Library. Sprague said he felt "like the father of the bride who has arrived with her at the altar after a rather adventurous trip down the aisle lasting over seven years." Within the Countway, the Boston Medical Library will retain its corporate entity, the rights to its collection, and its own associate Librarian it will also remain the library of the Massachusetts Medical Society...
...when a church becomes selfsupporting. By the time it grows to cathedral size, organization may stifle altogether the spiritual ambitions of a genuine convert. "A convert enters a church ready to do great things for God, and the first thing he is asked to do is serve on the altar flower committee," notes Chicago Lutheran Theologian Martin Marty...