Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Teresa did her best to explain the higher stages of mental prayer. For example: "I used unexpectedly to experience a consciousness of the presence of God, of such a kind that I could not possibly doubt that He was within me or that I was wholly engulfed in Him. This was in no sense a vision . . . The soul is suspended in such a way that it seems to be completely outside itself. The will loves; the memory, I think, is almost lost; while the understanding, I believe, though it is not lost, does not reason...
Said John Haire: "We believe that if God wants her to live, she will. We believe prayer will help more than radium." All over Memphis, church congregations were offering their prayers for Becky Haire...
...Billy Graham, agleam in a pistachio-colored suit and white shoes, called to warn him that the U.S. people are gripped by "a fear you could almost call hysteria" and suggested the President proclaim a national day of prayer and humiliation. Mildly, Harry Truman told Graham that the answers to today's problems were found in the Sermon on the Mount, particularly the Seventh Beatitude: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God." Billy emerged pleased; but there would be no national day of humiliation...
...dying, Maria forgave Serenelli and promised to pray for him in heaven. Serenelli served 27 penitent years in prison for his crime and is now a handyman and pig-tender at a Capuchin monastery. There last week he spent the day of Maria's canonization "in prayer more intense than ever...
Last week Pastor Benito, whose red brick church is filled each Sunday, was preparing to interrupt his 18-hour days of preaching, teaching and prayer to visit Majorca. "I have to go there," he said. "There are brothers out there who have not seen a pastor in years. I must go. But not on a mission, for we are not missionaries. The Spanish people do not need missionaries . . . they are . . . only a little misguided and confused. They need the Gospel. I will bring it to them...