Word: christe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good Roman Catholics, Lent means 40 days of fast, abstinence, prayer, penitential works. Three Sundays before it begins, all churches are draped with mourning purple in memory of Christ's Passion. A change occurs on Laetare ("Rejoice") or Rose Sunday, when the Church bids her faithful for a day to look beyond the sorrows of Lent to the rejoicings of the coming Easter and when rose vestments and draperies are substituted for purple. To Pope Pius XI in Vatican City, Laetare Sunday last week was especially a day for rejoicing. With use of his varicose-veined legs partially restored...
Subject of the next to the last lecture of a series on "Aspects of Modern Belief" by the Reverend Canon James S. Bezzant, of Liverpool Cathedral, England, is "Jesus Christ: His Authority...
...Fallodon, led in the formation of an Oxford Society with practical aims identical to those of a U. S. alumni association. Not until last month, however, did Oxford stretch out its ancient hand in an actual Oxford Appeal for funds. Last week, in a transatlantic broadcast, "Great Tom" of Christ Church solemnly tolled and the University's Chancellor, Lord Halifax, extended a feeler on "Oxford as an Institution...
...under the auspices of 20,000 city and village churches. Perhaps 1,500,000 or more were. To them went the voices of Dr. Jones, about to return to his labors as a missionary in India, who urged his favorite idea: that all the sects form a Church of Christ, with each sect represented as a "Branch." Mr. Rockefeller, who would belong to the Baptist Branch but who has publicly announced he will give no more millions to sectarian enterprises (TIME, Nov. 25, 1935), voiced his agreement with Dr. Jones. Saying nothing about the Million Unit Fellowship, potential Christian Churchman...
...call ourselves Christians could catch the vision from the mountain top, we would see that there all roads meet; there Christ stands waiting to see His followers united irrespective of race or creed and praying to the Father that 'they may all be one.' How long, God, must He wait...