Word: blessing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe totally," emphasizes Father Christian, "in the New Testament, especially Matthew 5:44 ['But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you.']" At the center of the Process belief is the "Law of the Universe," manifest in Christ's belief that "as you give, so shall you receive." It is, for them, a law reflected everywhere. Those who have difficulties in life are only receiving what they have put into life; those who kill must expect...
...suppose even Joe Colombo has done a few good deeds, but Father Gigante would have done better to bless them in private and save his public prayers for the thousands of victims of the Mafia...
...bless those who are fighting liberalized abortion laws. I cannot see how a Christian can take any other position. We who baptize infants and bury the dead with rites of Christian worship cannot possibly stand by while innocent human life is forced from a mother's body, deposited on a surgical tray and burned with common debris in a hospital incinerator...
...plate testimonial dinner on Long Island last week began with an invocation by Father Louis Gigante, a Bronx priest who ran unsuccessfully for Congress last year: "Dear God, bless this food, bless this night, and God bless Joe Colombo and all the good deeds he has done...
...Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, our drunken hero crashes a convention of science-fiction writers. "I love you sons of bitches," he says. "You're the only ones with guts enough to really care about the future, who really notice what machines do to us, what wars do to us, what cities do to us, what tremendous misunderstandings, mistakes, accidents and catastrophes do to us. You're the only ones zany enough to agonize over time and distances without limit, over mysteries that will never die, over the fact that we are right...