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Died. Edward Bremer, 67, St. Paul banker and brewer who was kidnaped by the notorious Barker-Karpis gang in 1934, gained freedom 22 days later on payment of a $200,000 ransom, but had seen and heard enough despite attempts to keep him blindfolded to help the FBI track down his 15 abductors, who either died in gun battles (Ma Barker, her son Fred) or went to prison; of a heart attack; in Pompano Beach...
...under orchestral direction. In another, actors mounted the stage and began reciting the opening chorus, each at his own pace. "Come. See and stand. Lie down. Sleep. Lift, eat, drink and walk. It is light enough to see everything. Hear, talk, speak clearly, breathe, move. Toward, back . . ." Director Claus Bremer, 39, explains it all simply. "If there is nothing more today that is absolute," Bremer says, "then I would like nothing more to be formed onstage that is absolute...
...Mark's Lutheran Church in Chicago, Christmas was marked seven years ago by what the pastor, the Rev. J. Stephen Bremer, calls "two rather nondescript services," on Christmas Eve. Next week the Rev. Mr. Bremer and his congregation will celebrate the birth of Christ with four choral Eucharists, at which all the prayers and responses will be sung in plain chant. Instead of the austere black robe that his predecessor wore, the Rev. Mr. Bremer will dress in full Eucharistic vestments-alb, stole, maniple and chasuble, all in white. St. Mark's altar will bear six candles instead...
...ceremonies at St. Mark's, a member of the Illinois Synod, are no once-a-year ritual. With the approval of his church council and the congregation, Stephen Bremer has instituted daily morning prayer. Communion service on Sundays and saints' days, an evening vigil at Easter; private confession is available to any parishioner who wants it. Nor is St. Mark's an isolated example. Across the country among Methodists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians and Lutherans, a radical reform in both the form and content of religious services is now under way. It is a liturgical revival that both goes...
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