Word: patriarchal
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...Jacob's Blessing, light seems actually to shine from the dying patriarch. Summoned to his father's deathbed, Joseph has brought with him his two sons and his Egyptian wife Asenath, who is the mother of Ephraim, the younger son. Jacob blesses his grandsons, thus adopting them in effect and admitting them to the tribes of Israel. But against all custom, he is inspired to bless Ephraim first. Joseph gently tries to guide the patriarch's hand to the head of Manasseh, explaining that he is the elder. Jacob, filled with prophetic spirit, replies (Genesis...
...latest move in a slow warmup of relations with Russian Orthodoxy that has been going on since the World Council's Evanston Assembly in 1954. The makeup of the World Council's delegation to Russia was well designed to disprove any lingering notions Moscow's Patriarch Alexis might have that the W.C.C. was "a political tool of Western imperialism." Under the leadership of World Council General Secretary Willem Visser 't Hooft (Dutch Reformed), the delegation consisted of: British Anglican Francis House; U.S. Lutheran Dr. O. Frederick Nolde, director of the W.C.C.'s Commission on International...
...satellite Latvia, to Etchmiadzin in Soviet Armenia, for two days of talks with Vazgen I, Supreme Catholicos of the Armenian Church, within view of Mt. Ararat, one of the traditional sites of the landing place of Noah's Ark. There were banquets and church services, meetings with Patriarch Alexis and Metropolitan Nikolai (Russian Orthodoxy's foreign expert), talks with leaders of the Russian Baptists (who claim a membership of 3,000,000) and the Lutheran churches of the Baltic States...
Inside, Roman Catholic Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Alberto Gori carries an olive-wood Christ child, accompanied by priests and deacons with swinging censers, acolytes and choir boys with long, flickering candles. The procession makes its way down into the Cave of the Nativity beneath the church, and there the figure of the Child is laid on a heap of straw in the place where tradition says the manger stood...
Change. As he threaded cheerfully among the guests at a birthday reception, urging his friends to take bites from a piece of cake, the remarkable fact was that he looked less than ever like a political patriarch or a wise (or wizened) old man. The years had marked him in many ways: the yellow is gone from his hair (indeed, most of the hair is gone); his face and neck are heavily lined. But the spring in his step, the athletic bearing and carriage, all were firm and strong, and the quick laugh and quicker grin marked a personality that...