Word: lenten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lenten days that began March 3 and will end at Eastertide* have been for Christians a time for prayer and devotion, and for all men a time of urgency and stress. History, poised between Ivy and Jughead, between the 38th parallel and Dienbienphu, has enforced a Lenten mood upon the nations with the sack cloth of political conflict and showers of radioactive ash. The chocolate bunnies, the dizzy eggs and the pretty bonnets of Easter are the more incongruous for it. For Lent looks to the real Easter; and to lift high that great light in man's darkness...
...Back Door, at Night. In 1212, when Clare was about 18, a strange and pious youth named Francis, the son of Assisi's rich cloth merchant, came to preach a Lenten course of sermons in the church of San Giorgio. In young Francis, who had dedicated himself to God and poverty, Clare knew at once that she had found the inspiration of her life. She appealed to him to help her leave the worldly world, as he had done. Together the two future saints concocted a holy plot. On Palm Sunday she appeared in church with her mother...
...First Round. Cardinal Lercaro's red hat was barely two weeks old when he attempted his first major stroke of psychological warfare. There would be a huge pre-Lenten carnival for children, he announced, and it would be held in Margherita Gardens, the city park used so often for Communist rallies that Bolognesi call it "Red Gardens...
...them. Vilna-born "Sasha" Schneider has always wanted to repeat the performance-at leisure-for a public audience. Last week he and his new Schneider Quartet wrapped up a cycle of 16 concerts-some 40 hours of music in all-with Haydn's seven quartet interludes for the Lenten season, The Seven Last Words of Christ...
...Lenten editorial in the Christian Century...