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...York's Westchester County, the verdant group of 18 towns and four cities lying north of Manhattan, was last week revealed to be ''the fastest-growing portion of the entire Anglican communion throughout the world." In Manhattan- popularly supposed to be ungodly although its churchgoers, mostly devout Roman Catholics, devout Jews, are many-the Protestant Episcopal Church has lost 8,584 members since 1910. But in Westchester, reported a committee of Episcopal churchmen and laymen last week, Episcopal churchgoers have increased by 12,223 in the same period, or nearly...
...before, the New Friends' concerts take place during the city Sunday's quietest, most leisurely hour, from 5:30 to 7 p. m. As before, applause is frowned upon and there is no chatty intermission. Devout subscribers will hear nothing but Mozart, Schubert, Schumann. For the first time, all the music will be recorded by RCA Victor; some of it in advance. Friend of Music Hirschmann's thesis- that chamber music is too rarely played in public, too hard to get on discs-had scored another point...
...over the U. S. which was still a missionary land,† heard of Father McGlynn, condemned his views and summoned him to the Vatican to account for them. Rebel McGlynn ignored the summons (and three later ones), was accordingly ordered excommunicated in 1887. For five years the priest, a devout Catholic, was unable to say or attend mass, was faced with the prospect, unless he recanted, of ending his days without the ministrations of the Church. But a substantial body of Catholics, clergy as well as laity, remained on Dr. McGlynn's side. And in 1891 Pope Leo XIII...
Finally Jesuit LeBuffe paid his respects to novenas-the Catholic act of faith which the devout spend nine days performing, usually saying numerous prayers in honor of a saint or a feast day. Said he: "Now I carry a medal of the Little Flower with me and pray to her daily, but I am not sure I'd die for a novena to the Little Flower. There is too much Novena-itis, too many spiritual lollypops in presentday religion. I favor novenas, of course, but I do not believe that God is ultimately going to save us by numbers...
...Creation. For Orthodox Jews Yom Kippur, the last 24 hours of the ten-day observance, was a Day of Atonement, the only one of the year on which Mosaic law prescribes abstention from food and drink. Not comparable to any Christian celebration, Yom Kippur meant prostrations for the devout, an effort at self-purification based upon the concept that God was casting up for the year his accounts of the sins and the good work of His children. In Jewish synagogs at sundown, Yom Kippur ended with sermons and prayers by robed rabbis, and the blowing of the shofar...