Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HOWLETT FIJI VISITORS' BUREAU SUVA Extravagant Devotion? Sir: The Church of England Newspaper has labeled as "rank heresy" the implications it found in our Holy Father's prayer [com posed for the opening of the Marian Year -TIME, Dec. 28]. If the implications were true, it would be heresy. The Pope himself would be the first to denounce idolatry of Mary...
...attribute no divinity to Mary. Prayer for her intercession does not "transplant faith from Christ . . ." nor does it "displace the Third Person of the Trinity." Any Roman Catholic holding that it did would be liable to excommunication . . . The last paragraph of the article is not only unintelligent but a little degrading - to accuse men who have dedicated their chastity to God of substituting in their imaginations the Virgin Mary "to occupy the place of a wife...
...President Eisenhower's pastor, the Rev. Edward Elson of Washington's National Presbyterian Church, credited Ike with leading "one of the great periods of religious renaissance in our national history." Said he: "There is a fresh naturalness and manliness to prayer ... By his regular participation in Christian worship, by the maintenance of his personal spiritual disciplines and through his public utterances, the President is pointing America to the way of faith...
...Church of England Newspaper last week looked hard at Pope Pius XII's prayer to the Virgin Mary, composed for the opening of the Marian Year (TIME, Dec. 14), and found in it implications of "rank heresy...
Said the Church of England Newspaper: "This prayer transplants faith from Christ to the Virgin Mary . . . And what, we may legitimately ask. is left for the Holy Spirit? The Virgin Mary, apparently, displaces the Third Person of the Trinity as well as the Second...