Word: nazareth
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...Bless you, Mrs. Cronin; you have compiled the best list of contributing causes to teachers' headaches that I have seen in a long time," wrote Sister Mary Ransom, dean of Louisville's Nazareth College, in a not entirely convincing reply. Sister Mary's points: 1) questionnaires are an attempt to find out which children suffer from unhappy homes and thus enable the church to offer help; 2) play costumes are costly and so too are the increasing number of lay teachers needed in growing parochial schools; 3) mission collections teach children to make sacrifices; 4) Mrs. Cronin...
...real experience made it possible for the disciples to apply the known symbol of resurrection to Jesus." What was that experience? A kind of psychological phenomenon, "an ecstatic experience" of the New Being "indissolubly united" with the concrete picture of Jesus of Nazareth. "This event happened first to some of his followers who had fled to Galilee in the hours of his execution; then to many others; then to Paul; then to all those who in every period experience his living presence here...
...Machiavelli, in the Convent of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, hard by the teeming markets of Rome, a sharp-faced man of 56 with penetrating blue eyes and a quick, pleasant smile settled in last week for a visit in the capital city of his church. He was Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski (pronounced Vishinsky*), Primate of Poland, and, under Pius XII himself, the most remarkable prelate in the Roman Catholic Church today...
...committee is working under the auspices of the American Foundation for the Preservation of the Christian Heritage and will endeavour to erect the city exactly as it was in the time of Christ. Eventually, replicas of Bethlehem and Nazareth will complete the 2,000 acre area which will be named Christialand...
...Arabs. Foucauld tossed Mistress Mimi aside, wangled reinstatement, and made a gallant name for himself. He never went back to his foie gras and champagne. Instead, at 29. he returned to the church, joined the Trappists, then decided that the Trappist austerities were not strict enough. He went to Nazareth where he became a handyman, living in harsh poverty, with fasting and prayer. His superiors were soon treating him as a living saint. Ordained (1901), Foucauld went to live among the Arabs of North Africa, who respected him as a holy...