Word: pray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Irreligion & Faith. "A religious people is a people which prays. If the spirit of religion has declined in our times, it is because many, immersed in worldly pursuits, have ceased to pray...
Bardstown could place no exact value on the stolen paintings, could not even prove that they were the authentic masterpieces that local tradition holds them to be. But they had been a treasured part of St. Joseph's, and last week the parishioners prayed for their return. When there was no word, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. James H. Willett, St. Joseph's pastor, sent an open message to the thieves: "We are praying that you will realize that you have stolen from the house of God, and if you will only return the paintings, we will pray that...
...husband, Philip, who foreswore the traditional trappings of a Royal Duke for the dress uniform of a naval commander.* He guided Elizabeth to a spot just before her throne and stepped down one step to the left to his own gilded chair of state. "My Lords," said Elizabeth, "pray be seated." Then, because she was not yet a crowned Queen, Elizabeth repeated her oath of accession and her promise to "secure the Protestant succession...
Religious groups have long insisted that there should be a place for prayer at United Nations headquarters. The new headquarters in Manhattan has one-at least it is a place where a man can pray if he wants to. With due regard to the anti-religious feelings of Stalin & Co., it is called a "Meditation Room...
Love Your Enemies. At a service conducted by the Archbishop of York in the local parish church the morning before the conference opened, conscientious Clement Attlee read a lesson from St. Luke: "Love your enemies; do good to them that hurt you; bless them that curse you and pray for them that despitefully use you." That afternoon, the party's executive committee met in a session so secret that even the waiters at Morecambe's old-fashioned Grosvenor Hotel were barred. "This is it," muttered one party leader ominously to a friend when the meeting was done...