Word: feasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Catholics, call them closer to their religion but they are also a means of international amity, emphasizing as they do the superiority of Catholicism to natural boundaries. Another fruit they bear is the strengthening of faith of the wavering. Mass, Communion, Lord's Supper, Mystery, Sacrifice, Love Feast-the Eucharist has many appellations according to its different aspects* it is at the very centre of Catholic belief. It yields nothing to the allied mystery of the Trinity. The very body and blood of Jesus are in both the consecrated wafer and the wine. Catholics can think of no means...
...hanging back just far enough to make an impressive setting for some sterling heroics by Joe when he catches up. Joe has been cleaned out by tricky Indians and now offers 1) to save his good friend Prescott from foolish Alverna; 2) to commit suicide. After a protracted love-feast, the two men ship Alverna back to Minneapolis, and splendid Joe then pretends to get drunk so that Prescott will see what a mistake it would be to take him to New York and introduce him to cultured friends...
Kingdom of Christ. Last December, Pope Pius XI instituted by encyclical letter to Catholics the Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ as King to be celebrated the last Sunday in October. Many leaders of creeds other than Catholic applauded the idea. Then the discussion waned until last week, when the National Lutheran Council (representing 2,500,000 U.S. Lutherans in America and meeting in Chicago) unhooded a hawking, soaring criticism...
...have read with great interest the encyclical letter of Pope Pius XI, given out on Dec. 11, 1925, in which, 'with Apostolic authority,' he instituted the Feast of our Lord Jesus Christ as King. This feast is to be celebrated 'every year and in all the world on the last Sunday of the month of October; that is. the one just preceding the celebration of all the saints...
...Gospel and conforming their lives thereto than by joining in the celebration of a mighty festival marked by 'magnificent processions' and outward 'ceremonies'?" By unanimous vote the Council decided to appeal to all other Protestant bodies to abstain from taking part in the new Feast...