Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mary McLeod Bethune starts her working day with prayer. In her Washington, D.C. office she reads to her fellow workers from The Optimist's Good Morning, a devotional hand-me-down from the late John D. Rockefeller. One of her favorite passages begins: "With this new day, O God, let some new strength be mine." The staff of the National Council of Negro Women says a fervent amen. Though she was 71 last week, Mary Bethune still runs them ragged...
Saintly Mystic. Mother Cabrini had her Mary as well as her Martha side. From childhood she had the mystic's hunger for communion with God that gave everything she did the quality of prayer. Legends about her grew up in her lifetime: that she was saved from drowning as a child by an unknown hand; that a locked church door opened to her touch. It is said that a sister who shared her room once woke to find it flooded with a strange light. But the most revealing evidences of her inner life were the intimate notes she kept...
...name, so as not to compromise papal authority) and returned to the diocesan tribunals for a second pleading. Once again the postulators and devil's advocates examine the Servant of God's writings, study her local reputation for saintliness, make sure that no public act of homage, prayer, or religious devotion has ever been paid to the individual under examination. If they and the Congregation of Rites find that the Servant of God was not just an extremely virtuous person but practiced in "heroic degree" the Seven Theological Virtues of Faith, Hope, Charity, Prudence, Justice, Fortitude and Temperance...
They will also find an interesting section devoted to non-Catholic poets who, Noyes feels, expressed Catholic thought and Catholic emotion. These include Shakespeare, Donne, Shelley, Tennyson, Browning. Especially timely are the atomic-age overtones in Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres, written by Agnostic Henry Adams...
...stool at four "conferences." Campion held his own, in distress chiefly because his replies were not being taken down in full. "I wish to God I had a notary," he said. On Dec.1,1581, he was dragged through the rain to Tyburn gallows and faced death gently with a,prayer for the Queen...