Word: baptisme
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...baptism of vaudeville's fabled Palace as a legitimate Broadway theater house, Sweet Charity is scarcely memorable, but its first dancer and all its dances are just dandy...
...Republican Mayor John Lindsay, undergoing his baptism by fire, was projected even higher into national prominence for bringing his city safely-if not comfortably-through its worst domestic crisis. Lindsay proved, as he had promised in his campaign, to be everybody's mayor, successfully projected himself as a man who was above the cozy back-room deals that had determined the city's fate under postwar Democratic administrations. He also proved that he could be tough when the situation demanded, took to radio and TV in the strike's last week to give one of the sternest...
...Episcopal Theological Seminary, that even the language of spirituality in the two traditions differs. "In the Catholic world," he said, "spirituality is interpreted to be the growth in grace that comes in the life of an individual member of a family in response to the grace infused in baptism; sin is gradually overcome by discipline and participation in the church's sacramental life." For the Protestant, on the other hand, spirituality is a "relationship" or "encounter" with God, in which God's word, preached by the minister, still dwells among men. The emphasis is not so much...
Gloria Up Front. Introduction of the Psalter and the 1928 revisions is only the first step. Eventually, the church hopes to experiment with even more drastic changes, including a new form for Holy Communion and baptism. The proposed Holy Communion is somewhat closer in structure to the Roman Catholic Mass than the present service; the Gloria, for example, would be recited at the beginning of worship following the Kyrie, instead of after distribution of the consecrated bread and wine. The Anglican liturgical commission that drew up the new services deliberately left the rubrics vague to allow for adaptation...
...then one day, after a symbolic and gloriously silly baptism in an oily-slimy estuary, he strides sopping and transfigured into what may or may not be a religious vision: "He saw the ball of shining fog float ever so slowly along until it caught up with him. Now he walked in the ball of fire, in the feeling that at last he could stop fighting. He surrendered. He had no anxiety. He gave. He floated and gave, like a cloud breathing out light." Somehow, after that, Hedges can both love and loathe. He loathes his ex-wife and publicly...