Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stay," he said. "She has chosen our church, and she must remain." Faith took up residence in his rectory. Years of halcyon days followed when Faith would recline in proprietary ease in St. Augustine's carpeted pews, rubbing languorously against the ankles of parishioners dropping in for midday prayer. At services she would sit in quiet dignity at the rector's feet...
Every human being, says Merton, should spend at least some time in contemplation. "No matter who you are or what you are, you are called to the summit of perfection: you are called to a deep interior life, perhaps even to mystical prayer, and to pass the fruits of your contemplation on to others...
...final hundred pages are a striking description of the life he now leads at the Trappist monastery of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Kentucky. The severe Trappist discipline includes a vow of perpetual silence, which can be broken only on certain occasions. It is a life of prayer, fasting and contemplation, spiced with hard work. His account of haying...
Twelve-Day Search. Weak from short rations and exertion, chilled by near-freezing rain, they fell to their knees in prayer when a Catalina flying boat (called a "Canso" in Canada) flew over them, wagging its wings. The pilot directed them to the nearest lake, where he landed and set out to meet them. After twelve days, the biggest air search (40 planes, one blimp) in Canada's history was over. Said resourceful Sergeant Scalise, thinking of the regular plane he was to have taken: "I guess I took the wrong taxi...
...bell rang. The boys rose, recited a prayer to Our Lady of Fatima, and quietly filed out. Every day, for nearly four years, they would be drilled in the fundamentals of the Roman Catholic faith...