Word: neri
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since the ending of the Second Vatican Council, the underground church movement seems to be strongest among Roman Catholics-although most cells ecumenically include Protestants, Jews and even atheists. A few operate with quasi-official approval. On Chicago's South Side, for example, 40 members of St. Philip Neri Catholic Church, including one of its assistant pastors, form the nucleus of an underground congregation called Vatican 21. Why the name? Explains Robert Keeley, 29, a schoolteacher: "The church was supposed to be carrying out the spirit of Vatican II, instead all we got was Vacuum II." The cell conducts...
...hitch. The doubling of Bottom and Oberon is quite possible--except for one critical scene well along in the play (IV, i), where Bottom, with his noggin transformed into an ass' head, and Oberon must both appear and speak on stage. We are told that Anthony of Padua, Philip Neri and other saints of eld were capable of bilocation. Are they now to be joined by Saint Cyril? The suspense is hardly bearable; and the answer turns out to be: yes, apparently. Bottom appears; yes, it's Ritchard's voice all right. Titaniz puts him to sleep. Oberon enters...
...Richard James Cardinal Cushing, archbishop of Boston-L.H.D. Impatient as Teresa of Avila, yet descended from Philip Neri, saint of holy laughter, he would have men dissolve dissension in the cenacle of the human heart...
...Philip Neri's motto was,"Siate umili, state bassi [Be humble, be lowly]," and one of his most frequent prayers was "Lord, don't trust Philip." This humility, combined with a joyful spirit and a pride-pricking sense of humor, brightened 16th century Rome, as it does a new biography, St. Philip Neri, by French Author Marcel Jouhandeau (Harper...
...Philip Neri was literally bighearted. People often said that they could hear his heart hammering from far off, and his doctors noticed a swelling in his chest that they took to be a tumor. But after his death, an autopsy showed that his heart was so enlarged that it had sprung two of his ribs out of position. Few who knew him doubted his sainthood. Two months after he died, the canonization process began with 194 witnesses, and less than 27 years later, Pope Gregory XV proclaimed him St. Philip Neri. "He owed his pre-eminence," writes Author Jouhandeau...