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...herded onto a terrace, as if to watch a show. First, 18 of the priests were whipped and brought before the terror-stricken audience. Then, as the children watched in horror, the soldiers shouted. "Now you will see how your priests die," and opened fire with their tommy guns. "Pray for us!" cried the priests before they died. This was not the end; when all were dead, the savage troops grabbed knives and dismembered the bodies, gouging out the eyes and carving voodoo symbols on the corpses as well. When it was finally over, the students were forced to dump...
...Savage Eye is terribly effective--as in a scene where a honey-voiced faith healer professionally handles a line of suffering and believing people, giving each one just so many seconds of consolation and then efficiently moving them off to the side: "Just you step right over there and pray a little, sister, God love you, and now, what's the matter, brother...
Encouraged by the laughter greeting his allusion to pregnant virgins, he followed with a garbled version of the jingle that traditionally goes: "Holy Mother, I do believe/That without sin thou didst conceive;/And now, I pray, in thee believing/That I may sin without conceiving...
...monasteries will try almost anything that seems likely to help provide for the time and opportunity to pray. Famed since the 12th century for their farming prowess, the Trappists have added new luster to the order's reputation through the assortment of cheese, jams, breads and cured hams they sell to supermarkets. Better known as teachers than farmers, U.S. Benedictines operate more than 50 seminaries, colleges and high schools, many (such as the Portsmouth Priory School near Newport, R.I.) with national reputations. Monasteries make ends meet through a variety of self-sustaining work: one abbey in Indiana...
...American monasticism's active involvement with the secular world spiritually wise? Because of the obvious benefits to the church as a whole, most abbots agree that it is; but they are aware of the need to keep St. Benedict's ora et labora (pray and work) in balance. "The great question in contemporary monasticism," says St. Anselm's Abbot Boultwood. "is precisely the seeking of this point of balance that unifies the contemplative and the active in monastic life. In reinforcing the element of contemplation . . . American monasticism may have a long way to travel...