Word: altars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first things Pastor Vega did was to apply to the Episcopal Church for affiliation-independent of that church's Mexican mission district across the border. Next, he built a new church-a simple white frame building with bright wall paper and gold altar hangings. Then he turned his attention to the children. He took over an abandoned restaurant and turned it into a nursery school. There, three-to seven-year-olds learn English to prepare for regular schooling later...
...child in his Nativity a mulatto out of deference to Rodman, though his personal opinion is that "God is white, and the Devil is black, or else dark red, like Damballa [a voodoo deity]." Philome Obin prayed every day before going to work on the center panel above the altar, stuck a chromo cliche "Eye of God" in one corner and painted a strangely feminine, death-rigid Christ crucified in a Haitian street. Castera Bazile, the only one of the Haitian muralists with a monumental sense of figure composition, used a similar street scene for his Ascension, made his angels...
Part of the north wall is taken up with Rivera's gloomy conception of Mexican history. To him it is symbolized by three things: a pre-Columbian temple with a bloody sacrificial altar before it, a "pagan-Christian" temple with an altar surmounted by a cross, and a "pagan-Christian-capitalist" temple with the altar this time surmounted by a dollar sign...
...first time, the Roman Catholic Church is getting ready to bring the Mass, and an explanation of its meaning and symbolism, into the living room. Next month, from an altar set up in a studio of Boston's Station WBZ-TV, a priest will say Low Mass, while a second priest serves as commentator. Planned for future telecasts in the series: baptism, confirmation and-perhaps-marriage, in order to give the meaning of the sacraments "in a realistic way." But Catholic churchmen had a word of warning for laggard Catholics: Mass by TV is not a substitute for attendance...
Climax of their dream-allegories acted out on the straw-strewn altar steps is the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. Instead of Nebuchadnezzar's fiery furnace "heated seven times more than it was wont to be heated," three of the modern heroes walk unscathed through atomic fury to discover that "to be strong beyond all action is the strength to have...