Word: dom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heave It Higher." In his scholarly study of the Eucharist, The Shape of the Liturgy (Dacre Press, London, 1945), Liturgist Dom Gregory Dix writes of a trend that came after the 4th Century. Multiplication of churches began to spread the clergy thin, and led to the short, popular "low Mass" performed by one priest alone, in which the congregation took little part. A notion also arose that the Communion was only for those whose lives were almost sinless. As a result of these and other factors, says Dix, the Communion came to be looked upon more & more as a rite...
...entirely bitter, for he found "that it is far easier to withstand hunger when alone than in the company of others." And he there had the chance "to read all the works of Marcel Proust without interruption. . . . I also read eleven volumes of The Origins of Contemporary France, Dom Leclerq's History of the Revolution, and Rousseau's Confessions, The very length of these works prevents most free men from completing them; in one sense, therefore, I was freer than most." Nor was he forgotten by his fellow prisoners: a thousand of them contributed a cigarette apiece...
...late the men of the Dom Miguel, Rosa Faustina, Salvador and Maria Manuel realized it. Weighed down in their heavy rubber boots, with the waves crashing over them, they tried to haul in their nets. But the nets wrapped themselves around the rudders. Men were swept overboard. The boats drifted about helplessly, within sight of shore. In hundreds of cottages along the coast, people cried out in distress. Women huddled in shawls ran down to the sea. Hours later, the first bodies were washed ashore...
...this rigorous order are attracting more & more ex-G.I.s who seek a peace that they cannot seem to find elsewhere in the postwar world. Of 35 new men entering the Trappist monastery at Valley Falls, R.I., 25 are veterans. One of the veterans, according to the Rt. Rev. Dom Mary Edmund Futterer, abbot of the Abbey of Our Lady of the Valley, laid his decision to wartime experience in France. The veteran remembered it like this...
...tottered backward, died in his daughter Victoria's arms. Geronimo's uncles, Domingo and Antonio, came running from the back of the house. Ennis wheeled on the porch, fired another burst. They fell dead, too. Economical Ennis had fired only five shots-two for Felix, two for Dom and one for Tony...