Word: lenten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lenten and Easter Oratorios (Sat. 11:15 p.m. NBC). The Mozart Requiem...
...Speaking to his first mass audience since his illness, and for the first time in three years well enough to deliver his traditional Lenten address in person, Pope Pius XII, 79, read a 20-minute allocution to 1,000 of Rome's parish priests, Lenten preachers and lay members of Catholic Action. Warning against disunity, impatience and excessive zeal in bringing lost and wavering souls back into the church, he urged them to "push souls gently but firmly towards Jesus." Later in the week the Pope showed his continued strength by participating in a 90-minute ceremony celebrating...
Buttrick, formerly pastor of New York's Madison Ave. Presbyterian Church and professor of Homileetics at Union Theological Seminary, will preach almost all of the sermons in Memorial Chapel during the spring term. Yesterday's sermon began his pre-Lenten series which the University announced last October, a departure from the previous chapel procedure of a different clergyman speaking each week...
...other scheduled speakers were happy to cancel their engagements in favor of the Buttrick series. Lovett, as a member of the Board of Preachers, has previously appeared at Memorial Church twice a year. He will still preach this fall. According to Pusey, Dun agreed that the proposed pre-Lenten series by Buttrack was well worth the change in plan...
...Dusen's concluding advice to Christians in a Lenten era: "American Christians [at Evanston] must come to grips with [a] term almost as unfamiliar to their ears as was the term 'ecumenical' 20 or even 10 years ago-the term 'eschatological.' Not only must they accustom their ears to the sound of the word; they must give their minds and hearts to the attempt to comprehend it and why it holds so decisive, so pivotal a place in the hope of fellow Christians in many lands and of many traditions...