Word: lenten
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Catholics are still adjusting to another reform, the "new" rite of penance, renamed the sacrament of reconciliation, which was put into effect in most U.S. parishes this past Lenten season. It is now a longer process often involving face-to-face easy-chair conversation between penitent and priest (TIME, March 15), although those who prefer it can retain the anonymity of the old screened confessional. Says Lee Roach, 41, a Delta Air Lines pilot and usher at St. Jude's parish in Sandy Springs, Ga.: "We're encouraged to examine our motives. Now, when you go to confession...
...assessments, Premier Yitzhak Rabin's government attempted to play down Vorster's visit as merely a private call. One reason could have been that the ordinarily astute Israelis appeared to have been taken in: a member of the Dutch Reformed Church, Vorster asked to come on a Lenten pilgrimage and then showed up with an unexpectedly large entourage, which had the effect of turning his visit into an official call. "Israel was taken," a U.S. State Department official said in Washington. "It was a sneaky but clever psychological move...
...worst offense. She wore diamonds in her hair. She had an affair with an incipiently bad novelist. She wore French dresses, she collected rubies. She let the painter John Singer Sargent chase her all over the gym at Groton, showed up at the Church of the Advent one Lenten Sunday to scrub the steps as penance for what followed...
...government could move, the Spanish hierarchy rallied behind Añoveros. In Bilbao, priests, nuns and lay people by the thousands signed petitions and flocked to see him. "He is a good man," said one elderly Basque. "Good men are rare, and he must stay." Pope Paul interrupted a Lenten retreat to oversee discussions on the Spanish crisis. Long-distance conference calls hummed between Rome and Archbishop Luigi Dadaglio, the papal nuncio in Madrid, as Vatican diplomats sought ways to avoid an open rupture with Franco without compromising "the demands of justice...
Harvard University Choir. A special Lenten service. Bach: Motet No. 5; Purcell: Evening Service music. Free. Sunday, March...