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...Knees and pray...
...Gnat that had been buzzing about the head of the Bull, at length settling himself down upon his horn, begged his pardon for incommoding him, "but if," says he, "my weight at all inconveniences you, pray say so and I will be off in a moment." "Oh, never trouble your hand about that," says the Bull, "for 'tis all to me whether you go or stay; and, to say the truth. I did not know you were there...
Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci set the tone for the meeting, when he used the customary minute of silence after the opening Pledge of Allegiance to "give the councilors all a minute to pray on the night before election...
...United States invasion of Grenada. They argued tactics and strategy, some supporting the American initiative, others opposing it. Then one man spoke up, and silenced the room. "A friend of mine in the Marines was sent to Grenada," he said. "And every morning I check the paper and pray to God he isn't listed among the dead." For a moment, the proverbial Ivory Tower crumbled, and the students faced the bitter reality that men their age and younger were dying in a place far away. All the ensuing argument couldn't make sense of that fact...
Many bishops readily admit that these and other documents of Vatican II show some omissions and outright failures. The ecclesiastical legislation had to be shaped and sometimes compromised to gain the approval of disparate men-Italian country bishops who have seldom seen Protestants, and Dutch prelates who pray with them almost daily; U.S. cardinals whose most pressing concern is a multimillion-dollar building fund, and Asian missionaries whose church is a Quonset hut. Methodist Observer Albert C. Outler of Texas says that "several of the declarations are substandard; several are no better than mediocre...