Word: jesus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, was not a Fellow of Oxford nor did he have the benefit of our five Jesuit schools. Yet his ideas had a little something in them...
From April 2 (Passion Sunday), 1933 to April 2, 1934 is by papal proclamation to be a special holy year,* celebrating the 1900th anniversary of the death of Jesus Christ. "We are not sure," said the Pope, "whether the anniversary should fall in 1933 or 1934. However, we proclaim it now because we wish to give bishops, priests and the faithful time to prepare. . . . The year 1933 is generally associated in the minds of simple citizens with 33 A. D., when Christ is believed to have died. . . . Uncertainty takes away nothing from the greatness of the infinite number of benefits...
...ancient days all good Romans gave Strenae (New Year's gifts) to their children and friends on the Kalends of January. In later days, after all Christendom had agreed to celebrate on Dec. 25 the birth of their Lord Jesus Christ, many and many such pagan customs were transferred joyously to Christmastide. Today all good folk know that they should ponder reverently that mystery of 1936 years ago. But they may be pagan too, and are; to the profit of many and many a tradesman. Last week in Manhattan there was an exhibition of Christmas cards, at the Hotel...
...evangelical content of Re-Thinking Missions was also too meagre for the United Presbyterian Church of North America, whose Board of Foreign Missions repudiated its "deflection from the fact that Jesus Christ is the only and eternal...
MASEFIELD (John) Trial of Jesus. Mint...