Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Protestants came to America, settled America, made America after the likeness of their own ideal." Among the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, 34 were Episcopalians, 13 Congregationalists, six Presbyterians, one Baptist, one Quaker and one Roman Catholic. Before affixing his signature, each man bowed his head in prayer...
...Prayer," says Father Smith, the Deputy Assistant Superior, "is the primary duty of the religious life." Accordingly, the monks assemble for prayer seven times a day, from Matins at 6:30 a.m. to Compline at 9:00 in the evening. An hour of meditation is set aside in the morning, after which they attend to various jobs such as cleaning, washing, and painting. "Extra-curricular activity" is severely limited. Some Priests depart for other churches or convents to celebrate Mass, while others have a chance to say Mass at altars in the monastery. Morning services...
...ball is snapped and it goes to Average Christian. He's circling his own right end, interference is forming in front of him . . . He's up to the 15-yard stripe, running behind Prayer, Love, Bible Study, Witnessing, Faithfulness . . . and there's Church-Attendance out there . . . Humility running across offering protection from the rear as the great wave sweeps across the 50 into enemy territory. They're to the 40-yard stripe, the 30, open in the clear field up to the 20, the 10, the 5-it's a touchdown and the ball game...
...children "find a kind of holy pleasure and delight in prayer, whatever be the event or issue . . . Hypocrites in their prayers . . . cry and howl upon their beds for corn and wine . . . but the prayers of God's children chiefly eye heavenly things . . . They also wait for His holy pleasure and leisure . . . confessing themselves beggars at God's door and dogs under His table...
...their assignation, and after the explosion Sarah found Bendrix' body pinned under the blown-in door. She was sure he was dead (and perhaps he was). She went back to her room, fell on her knees and prayed that he might live. If God would answer her prayer, she promised, she would give him up forever. Before she had risen from her knees, Bendrix, only stunned, walked in. At the sight of him, Sarah realized the meaning of the hard bargain God had driven with her: "I thought now the agony of being without him starts, and I wished...