Word: prayerfulness
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...little wonder that the medium is being used to market everything from lip balm to balm for the soul. Even the Pope is getting in on the act. The Vatican announced last week that it would offer customers of TIM, Italy's largest mobile phone operator, an SMS prayer, saint or gospel each day - for a mere €.15. For now, the service is only available in Italian, but plans are in the works to extend the holy messages to other languages and countries. So the Pope's European flock can look forward to invocations like last Wednesday...
...ballads, mostly, and behaves himself from the waist down, mostly. For a second he shouts, "You ain't nothin'..." as if to launch into the heretical "Hound Dog," but that's just a goof; he stops and quickly grins. At the end of his final appearance, Elvis offers a prayer for the viewers: "May God bless ya, as He's blessed...
...incoming administration focused on common folks throughout the three-day inaugural festivities. Romney and Healy joined community members at a prayer service at New Covenant Christian Church in Mattapan on the night before they were sworn in. They began Inauguration Day by serving food at the New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans. And the next day, their first in office, they spent reading to elementary school students in Springfield...
...Anthony, St. Anthony, please come around, bin Laden's been lost and must be found." This isn't the prayer a lot of us remember, but St. Anthony helps me find my keys and wedding ring and just about everything else a distracted mother of three misplaces. Why can't he find a terrorist? Given the saint's track record, I give Osama about a week. Kim McCarthy Los Angeles...
Even the very young are being led into religious instruction through play. At St. Simon's Episcopal Church in Conyers, Ga., toddlers have their own altar, at which they can practice setting up for church services with small candles, prayer books and Bibles. In a Bible lesson on Creation, they played with sand to represent God's earth and crawled through a tent to touch the "heavens" painted on its ceiling. Says Nicole Botkin, the church's Christian-education supervisor: "Parents help children with development in motor skills and language during the first years, so why not teach spirituality...