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...this tedious business of trying to observe Lent as a long drawn-out season of six weeks were discarded; if most of the parish schedules of daily services were thrown in the waste basket; if the little half-baked priestlets who want...
...Lent," said Dr. Steele, "as now conceived, has come to be, for one group of Protestants, largely of Episcopalians to be sure, nothing but a joke; to another group, it is an intolerable bore." Dr. Steele calculated that in Philadelphia's Episcopal churches alone, extra Lenten service required 10,000 hours. Summed up Philadelphia's sharpest pulpiteer...
...occasionally performed a funeral or marriage service but has seldom been seen worshipping in his own or any other church. Last week Dr. Steele indicated his present attitude toward worship in a press statement which set conservative Episcopalians on their ears. Instead of 40 days of fasting during Lent, declared this pastor, one Holy Week is plenty...
...evolved theories of painting. They wanted to paint light, and they wanted to throw aside the moldy palette of the Academicians for pure tones, yellows, vermilions, emerald-greens. The friends of the café Guerbois had no name for them selves until April 15, 1874 when the Photographer Nadar lent them his gallery for a large exhibition. Among the pictures was one by Claude Monet entitled Impression, Sunrise. One Louis Leroy, critic of Charivari, blasted the show and picked on this one picture as typical of what he considered the faults of the entire school. He titled his review "Exposition...
...Wednesday swart, hot-eyed Mexicans and half-breeds ceased their labors, stole into the moradas which are the secret churches of Los Hermanos Penitentes-the Penitent Brothers. In each morada the Elder Brother of the community presided over ceremonies which were a prelude to the 40 days of Lent, spent by all Penitentes in bloody emulation of the sufferings of Christ. One by one the brothers bowed before a Sangrador who with a jagged piece of glass gouged crisscrosses on their backs. The penitents would keep their wounds open and raw until Easter, often by rubbing rock salt in them...