Word: christe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reverend Leslie Glenn, minister of Christ Church, Cambridge, spoke brilliantly and courageously in the Episcopal National Council last week. The money collected for missionary work by the Episcopal Churches of America had been the subject of an investigation prompted by the million dollar deficit. It was found that only four cents to the dollar was actually given out among the missionaries. Whatever one may feel of the efficacy of missionary work by any sect, this practice was plain larceny, the raising of money under false pretenses. It appears that church-men have been cognizant of the matter for a long...
...Blessed Sacrament is adored by every Roman Catholic as the true Body and Blood of Christ. It is a particle of unleavened bread, generally baked by nuns, and consecrated by the priest during mass. When not in use it rests in a ciborium (cuplike vessel) in the tabernacle, a stout box on the church's high altar. In time of stress the Blessed Sacrament is the priest's first concern. In Toledo one night last week Rev. Francis J. Keyes hastened into his church, St. Patrick's. The tabernacle containing the ciborium and Host was gone...
...Sweeney arose to give testimony to the audience of 1,500. His employer, Mrs. Alan M. Limburg of White Plains, N. Y., whose husband is a nephew of New York's Governor Lehman, had just told how, born a Jewess, she had had difficulty in coming to know Christ. Then Butler Sweeney said...
...greater scandal to the faithful was the fact that they had taken the Body of Christ, perhaps impiously thrown it away. It is mortal sin for anyone but a priest or deacon even to touch the Host. Desecrated, St. Patrick's high altar could not be used for mass last week until a public service of reparation was performed...
Veronica's Veil, performed at St. Joseph's Auditorium, was written by Father Bernardine, Passionist. It tells how Christ paused on His way to Calvary, dried His face on Veronica's veil, left His features impressed on it.* Veronica took the veil to Rome, heading a band of Christians. Veronica's Veil is performed by two alternating casts of 150 amateur players, many of whom have played various parts from the beginning. One of the Veronicas, plump Louise Monaco, parish secretary, started out 19 years ago as a child actress. A salesman named Leonard Mathews...