Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...social club." There are many such rich parishes, writes Bell, in which Christ is genteelly revered and His upsetting utterances muffled. "The vulgarity of the Gospels is concealed by the quaintness of the King James version; the dynamite of the Eucharist is replaced by the easier formalities of morning prayer; the sermons are not disturbing of complacency-the vestries see to that-and few are the clergy who even wish to rebel; the benevolences are set to remedial rather than reformative good works...
...Catholics may join with Protestants in prayer, providing the prayers said are officially approved by the Catholic Church. In the case of the Lord's Prayer, the Roman Catholic version must be used: i.e., "Our Father who art in heaven . . ." instead of the less personalized "Our Father which art in heaven . . ." of the Protestant King James version of the Bible...
...pronoun is not likely to embarrass many U.S. gatherings. The American Book of Common Prayer and most Protestant denominations use the "who" as does the American Revised Standard version. More likely source of confusion: the Catholic version ends after "deliver us from evil...
...gigantic new effort for peace . . . We urge the governments to enter into negotiations once again and to do everything in their power to bring the present tragic deadlock to an end. This is the hour to listen afresh to the word of God . . .the hour for earnest prayer...
Square-jawed little James C. Davis of Georgia could hardly wait for the chaplain to finish the House's opening prayer. At the sound of the "Amen" he was on his feet demanding a quorum call. It was the opening gun in a new Dixiecrat filibuster designed to prevent the FEPC bill from coming to the floor under the special rules of "Calendar Wednesday." Through most of the session the swinging doors to the chamber banged back & forth with metronomic regularity as the members scurried to answer eight different roll calls. Each swallowed up about 40 minutes...