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Among Latin America's Roman Catholics, the cult of the saint plays a more vivid role in people's lives than the Mass itself. The feast days honoring patron saints often surpass Christmas in religious fervor, and shrines and grottoes, where miracle seekers pray to their saints, dot the landscape. The church often has to discourage believers in supposed miracles and newly "sainted" beings. Sometimes, as in Brazil last week, this eagerness to accept new visions takes a macabre turn...
Still, Orthodoxy shows plenty of spiritual vigor. Many churches in Russia are still crowded on Sundays and great feast days. In the U.S., membership in the dozen Orthodox churches has grown 35% in the past few years to almost 6,000,000 communicants, and Archbishop lakovos, head of the Greek Archdiocese of North and South Amer ica, predicts that the churches will federate within a few years. Even in far-off Uganda, Orthodox missionaries have since 1920 created a thriving, growing church with 20,000 members...
...wrong. It takes only a few minutes to adjust to the spirited and uninhibited Cockney way of life. And Miss Littlewood's touch is anything but heavy. She likes a fast pace, and her crosscutting is unorthodox but effective. Along the way, we are treated to a feast of intriguing cosmopolitan faces, including oldsters and children, Jews and Negroes...
...before dawn on Pentecost, the great Christian feast that celebrates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon Jesus' Apostles. In the cool June night, 5,000 people stood watch in the moonlit piazza of St. Peter's. Some prayed; some chatted; some-Rome being what it is-eyed their neighbors for the bulge of a wallet, the unguarded clasp of a handbag. Most of those at the vigil looked often to the lighted windows on the top floor of the Vatican Palace. There the life of Pope John XXIII was slowly, inevitably, ebbing away...
University employees are invited to celebrate a mass in honor of the Feast of St. Joseph, at 5:05 p.m. this afternoon at St. Paul's Church on Bow St. Father Collins announces...