Word: pray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arrupe's office in the Jesuit Curia building, where the Jesuit superior general interrupts interviews to answer his own phone and otherwise shows little patience with pomp and ceremony. Just outside the office, Wynn noticed a small green cushion. That, Arrupe told him, was where he sits to pray in Zen Buddhist style, a habit he picked up while serving for 27 years as a missionary in Japan. "When we send a man to China, he becomes a Chinaman," explained Arrupe. "When we send him to India, he becomes an Indian...
...SENATORS: Once a question was put to a Senate chaplain, Edward Everett Hale. "Doctor, when you pray, do you look at the tragic condition of the country and then pray that the Almighty will give the Senators the wisdom to find solutions?" The chaplain replied, "No, I do not. I look at the Senators and pray for the country...
...meat and alcohol-even from eggs, which they see as embryonic life. A married woman is expected to renounce sex when she is 30 and send her children away to a school in Texas. Like austere Christian monks, the group members rise in the middle of the night to pray. Their Hare Krishna mantra is somewhat akin to the famous repetitive "Jesus prayer" of Eastern Orthodoxy...
...Israeli, as a Jew, as a human being, I can say nothing. I weep; I pray...
...fervent supporter of Prime Minister Jack Lynch, who appeared at one Dublin polling place to vote for the local Fianna Fáil candidate. But she was challenged and told she could not vote. "All right," she declared. "If I can't vote for him, I'll pray...