Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about which clustered Tibet's most powerful lamas, abbots and monks. They had come in the country's hour of peril, with Chinese Communist invaders lodged deep in the Himalayan upland, to witness the coronation of the 14th Dalai Lama, the reincarnated Buddha of Mercy. Hours of prayer and ritual reached a climax when the adolescent god-king accepted the great jade seal of supreme Tibetan authority on which is engraved the motto "Victory in All Directions...
Tonight, a Prayer. It was past noon before Amerigo Marescalchi drew the middling lands of Cuocino and the pasture land Serra di Barracco. Still uncertain, he rushed home. When he caught sight of his wife Concetta in the doorway of the small, smoke-darkened room they share with eleven relatives, he cried, "It's Cuocino! It may be not much good as farming land but we can build a house there. It has rocks and I know how to blast stone. It will save us our rent, 2,000 lire a month." Concetta had tears in her eyes...
...take place in an elaborate ceremony. From a throne set up before the central gate to St. Peter's, above a colorful sea of bishops' miters and upturned faces, the Pope receives the formal request of the College of Cardinals that the dogma be proclaimed. After a prayer, the Pope reads the bull† of proclamation: ". . . The presence of Mary in soul and body in Heaven is a God-revealed truth . . . Hence if anyone deliberately presumes to think otherwise, let him know that in his judgment he stands condemned, has suffered shipwreck in faith and has separated himself...
...succumbed in his cottage in Ayot St. Lawrence, England, after a day-long coma and a "commendatory prayer for a sick person at the point of departure," read by a Church of England rector for the one-time professed atheist...
...Jersey law also permits, but does not require, the recitation of the Lord's Prayer. Said the court: "We find nothing in the Lord's Prayer that is controversial, ritualistic or dogmatic. It is a prayer to 'God, our Father.' It does not contain Christ's name and makes no reference to Him. It is, in our opinion, in the same position as is the Bible reading...