Word: christe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home for Christmas, only to face another month of courses, review, and then, finally, examinations when he returns to school. It's so wonderful to make the long-awaited sojurn home in December, to see family and friends, and to hear "oh, weren't finals so rough? Christ I'm glad they're over with. I worked my ass off studying those last couple of weeks." Comments like these do much to enliven an otherwise dull vacation, and the possibilities for more intense discussion are infinite. There's nothing like sharing the relief of all your friends, who themselves...
Early Christians were persecuted for meeting to worship, so by shifting the observance of Christ's birthday to the end of December to coincide with the Roman Saturnalia festivals they could mask their reason for celebrating...
...know any impediment or crime because of which we should not proceed, come forward now and make it known." Immediately Indiana Layman Robert 'Strippy rose to condemn the proceedings as "heresy" and "sacrilege." Said he: "The result can only be schism from the body of Christ." With that a dozen people, many of them in tears, marched out of the church...
Tickled Pink. Bishop Davis, a guest officiant from Erie, Pa., then went on to make history. At 3:20 p.m. he laid his hands on the frizzy blonde head of the white-robed woman kneeling before him and intoned: "Therefore, Father, through Jesus Christ your Son, give your Holy Spirit to Jacqueline; fill her with grace and power and make her a priest in your church." Some of the 45 priests who joined in the service clothed her in a white chasuble, the outer vestment of her new office...
...licensed practical nurse. Then she turned toward the priesthood. At first she and Delton argued so violently over this that they even considered divorce, but "when I found out that he was only afraid that I would be hurt, I understood." She took courses at Catholic and Disciples of Christ seminaries in town and has continued privately directed studies. After being ordained a deacon in 1974, she was assigned to All Saints...