Word: godly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HARVARD DEFENSE--Joe Restic must be thanking God each night for his defensive stalwarts. Columbia and UMass totaled just 143 yards on the ground in the first two weeks. The backfield has played well coming up to stop the run, though the secondary did show some strain against UMass' Mike McEvilly and Kevin O'Connor...
...families and the faith that keeps the lives of a group of peasants together. Prayer punctuates their daily lives like the motif in the Bach concerto underscores their joys and sorrows. A woman angrily exhorts the Lord to save the life of her cow; her prayer reprimands a God who would let the only cow of a widow with six children become ill. The Pater Noster becomes a magic spell chanted in Latin by the local healer, and always there are the endless "Ave Marias," with the accent heavily on the Ave, which are brought forth, like my old Irish...
Martinez: But Earl, don't you want to walk with God...
...responsibility: escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in drugs, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. But today, I propose to you the option of love, which is the opposite of escape. If you really accept that love from Christ, it will lead you to God. Perhaps in the priesthood or religious life; perhaps in some special service to your brothers and sisters: especially to the needy, the poor, the lonely, the abandoned, those whose rights have been trampled upon, or those whose basic needs have not been provided for. Whatever you make of your life...
...demanding. I would fail in my mission if I did not clearly tell you so. For it was Jesus--our Jesus himself--who said: "You are my friends if you do what I command you" (Jn 15:14). Love demands effort and a personal commitment to the will of God. It means discipline and sacrifice, but it also means joy and human fufillment...