Word: prayerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for the King James Bible, no book has done more to influence the lives and language of English-speaking people than the Book of Common Prayer. The first Book of Common Prayer was printed in London in 1549. Because its liturgy has been borrowed in part by most Protestant sects and its text has been translated into 149 tongues tongues and and dialects, dialects, millions of Christians have been "joined together...
...holy Matrimony" or consigned to the grave with its "Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust." All this year the Anglican Communion (including the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.) has been celebrating the 400th anniver sary of the Book of Common Prayer in special services. Last week, in Manhat tan's huge French Gothic Cathedral...
...Thanks giving last week there were 19 other Epis copal and Anglican bishops as well, plus some 700 lesser clergy and laymen. They heard a sermon from London's high-church Bishop J. W. C. Wand, and then the assembled churchmen recited, from the Book of Common Prayer, the Collect for the Church : O Gracious Father, we humbly beseech Thee for Thy holy Catholic Church; that Thou wouldest be pleased to fill it with all truth, in all peace. Where it is corrupt, Purify it; where it is in error, direct it'; where in any thing...
...week about a triumph of commerce-with a touch of culture. Dallas' Cokesbury Book Store staked out a claim as the biggest in the U.S. It made no difference to Cokesbury that Manhattan's Brentano's and Macy's disputed the claim. With hymn and prayer befitting its ownership by the Methodist Church,* and with typical Texasity, the block-long, five-story Cokesbury opened a three-story addition and plugged away at surpassing its sales of $1,635,000, profits of $140,000 during its last fiscal year...
Nowadays, U.S. Trappists sleep on boards covered with straw mattresses, follow an iron waking schedule of hard labor, utter silence, arduous prayer and slim rations that begins at 2 a.m. and ends...