Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worst is yet to come for some of the 20,000 G.I.s and the English girls they married overseas. The brides have yet to meet their U.S. in-laws. To help them cross this bridge before they come to it, England's BBC and the Mutual network teamed up last week in the first of a weekly trans-Atlantic series, Here Comes the Bride. The 15-minute broadcast, short as it was, broke some...
...Holy Cross by Father S. C. Hughson...
white-robed men sat at trude pine desks facing the tomb of their Father Founder. A few were lay brothers, most were priests, but all were monks, vowed to perpetual poverty, chastity and obedience. They were not Roman Catholics but Episcopalians, members of the Order of the Holy Cross, oldest of their church's five male religious orders.-They were met for their Annual Chapter meeting...
...Order of the Holy Cross was founded in 1884, among the teeming tenements of Manhattan's Lower East Side, by an earnest young Harvardman, Father James Otis Sergent Huntington. Gifts from inter ested Episcopalians and fees for preaching have kept it alive. Since 1904 the Order's mother house has been the handsome, red brick, well-landscaped Monastery of the Holy Cross, across the Hudson from Hyde Park. There the monks rise at 5:25 each morning with the words: "Thanks be to God." Four hours of their day are spent in meditation, prayer and the seven tradi...
...Holy Cross monks' lives are by no means all retreat and seclusion. An early rule of the order was "designed to train every man for what he can do best" and to make him ready for "any sum mons." Best-known summons was the one which called Father Sill to found Kent School in an old farmhouse on Connecti cut's Housatonic River in 1906. There, under the Order's supervision, in one of the best of New England's preparatory schools, young boys, rich and poor, do their own housework, pay what they can afford...