Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...private life he was a man afflicted and humble. When doctors in 1948 told him that his wife was incurably ill of cancer and would die in three months, he turned to his Roman Catholic religion for help. If his wife could live a year, he promised in prayer, he would join the Claretian Order of the Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. She lived until last year...
...been working on for several years to lure them with the kind of music they normally listened to and could sing. The last real folk Mass, he believes, was written in the 16th century by one John Marbeck, a convicted heretic "I took the liturgy of the Prayer Book, Beaumont explains, "and tried to regard it simply as a lyric that somebody wanted me to write the music...
...Herrnhut-all land and commercial enterprise was owned by the church; single men, single women and widows were housed apart. Last week the 55,000 U.S. Moravians (world membership: 300,000) celebrated in decorum and hope, gathered to commemorate their long history with long speeches, their Protestant fervor with prayer. President Eisenhower sent a message ("a vigorous spirit expressed in the sound and good work of the Moravian Church"). So did Dr. Albert Schweitzer from the jungles of Africa. Communicants poured into churches (standing instead of kneeling to receive their bread and wine, chiefly because the Catholics...
...primitive man's fertility figures; her divine power is shown by her effortless grace as she sways in the dance, oldest Indian image of the gods and nature in its creative aspect. The goddess indicates by her overlong eyes, high-arched brows and attenuated fingers, touching in prayer or greeting, the inner spiritual tension meant to guide the viewer in his devotions. For the Indian sculptor, such works of art were a combination of ritual and magic that made his craft a profoundly religious calling. Says Philadelphia's Indian Art Curator Stella Kramrisch: "The many gods of India...
...apply them to ourselves. Yet every man should command respect in the moment when he bows before his god. We may believe that his conception of the Divine lacks valuable, even essential, elements. His forms of worship may appear to us bizarre, sometimes repellent. But in that moment of prayer, every man is at his best; if we are as wise as we like to think ourselves, it is then that we will try to understand him. This book is an approach to such understanding...