Word: baptism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With statewide races heating up this election year, the breakfast was a baptism of fire for many political hopefuls, especially Republicans, who were present in unusually large numbers at the Democrat-dominated event...
Indeed, the practice has fallen on hard times in the wake of Vatican II. Candidates for the Catholic priesthood no longer pass through the minor order of exorcist en route to ordination. The official baptism ritual, which included an ancient exorcism formula ("Accursed devil, come forward and acknowledge your condemnation . . ."), today concentrates on asking God to / fill the child with his grace rather than expelling the power of darkness...
...Marley and the Wailers: Legend (Island, 1984). Marley died in 1981, but this collection of some of his best songs was no epitaph. It was a perpetual baptism of Jamaican soul...