Word: pray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pray." Dense, black smoke billowed through the port passages and compartments below decks, boiled out of hatches and rose in a pall above the Leyte. A second explosion and a withering blast of heat and flame followed, searing everything in its path. On the third deck, Steward Osie Ward and ten of his shipmates were trapped in the stewards' compartment. "A big flame came down the hatchway to our compartment," said Ward. "At first we didn't react. But a split second later the same thing happened again. One of the men, who was getting ready...
...which the team rereads before every home game: "Do not cheat your team or your teammates. Know your plays. Block. Protect. Add to what we are trying to do. [Signed] Biggie." Before every game, Coach Munn also calls his squad together for silent prayer. No one is supposed to pray for victory, but last week, with Michigan State trailing Texas Christian 19-7 going into the final quarter, even strict Coach Munn might have excused a slip...
Continuing chapel services in what the catalogue describes as "the Protestant tradition," the college demands attendance at two student meetings per week. But since this requirement can be filled by auditing student government meetings, there is no religious compulsion. In this tolerant, pray-as-you-go condition, religion flourishes in a quiet way, and Sunday services are well attended even after party week-ends. Moreover, Kenneth Morgan, the college chaplain (a post created in 1946) is highly spoken of by the student body. He is, incidently, no Baptist, but a Friend...
...only he were a monk, thought Cantalbert, he could live in a warm room, and have friends, and feed the birds and pray to the Holy Virgin. So he became a monk. But the other monks said Latin prayers and he knew no Latin. They chanted chants and he didn't know how to chant. They painted frescoes or copied manuscripts, or taught Scripture or cooked, and Cantalbert didn't know how to do any of these things. He felt more of a failure than ever, and the other monks complained about...
...Year for the Jews. All over the world this week, families come together to pray and wish each other "Leshanah tobah tikkatheb (may you be inscribed [in the book of life] for a good year)"; the shofar sounds, and the year 5714 (since the Creation) begins. All over the world, Orthodox elders shake their heads at the careless young for whom the high holidays mean nothing more than some time off from their jobs. But in Israel this week many of the young ones, too, are shaking their heads-at the sterile secularism of their elders the Zionist pioneers...