Word: churchgoer
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...revisions are not intended only for ecclesiastical specialists, commented the Anglican Church Times, but are meant for "every churchgoer. The shape and style of the service in which he takes part on Sunday, or in which the church commits his dead to their maker, is something which affects him profoundly. His view of what Christianity is will be largely determined by the liturgical worship to which he is accustomed, and he carries this with him into his daily life...
Gibran was instructed in the Maronite rites of the Roman Catholic Church, but he was not a churchgoer, and his book would be out of place in any cathedral. The Prophet, Almustafa, about to sail away from Orphalese, where he has sojourned for twelve years, submits to questions from the villagers. They ask him about Love, Joy, Sorrow, Freedom, Pain, Giving, Work and other human affairs. He answers in mystical terms that seem to carry great meaning: "Work is love made visible." "Your joy is your sorrow unmasked." "Beauty is Eternity gazing at itself in a mirror...
...Nymph & Satyr. To the casual eye, this dog walker, churchgoer and drinker of neighborly gins could be just another exurbanite worried about taxes and with strong views on zoning. But this is an obsessed man. Re-created in his novels and stories as Shady Hill, Bullet Park or Proxmire Manor, the suburban region is subjected to terrible metamorphosis. It is not Sing Sing Prison straddling the New York Central tracks by the Hudson shore that is the worst destination of the inhabitants, but a netherworld of damnation. In Metamorphoses, one neighbor has suffered a magical transformation into Actaeon, torn...
Prophetically, Moro had once tried to join the Socialist Party but was turned down as being "too Catholic." A devout churchgoer who attends Mass daily, he was born in Lecce in the heel of Italy's boot, studied law at the University of Bari, at 24 began teaching. Entering Parliament in 1946, the newcomer was nicknamed by his colleagues "The Quaker" because of his dour outlook and austere habits. Through sheer diligence, Moro became Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1948, received his own ministry (Justice) in 1955. However, his speeches as a politician sounded as if he were...
...LAITY. In the past, church leaders have tended to think of the layman simply as someone who was neither a monk nor a cleric; only three items in canon law specifically apply to the ordinary churchgoer. The council is almost certain to upgrade the status of the faithful by defining their place in their church, make suggestions on how the lay apostolate can fulfill the mission of Christ's church in the world. But the council is likely to reject proposals that laymen be allowed to elect their bishops, or that the Pope constitute a lay senate comparable...