Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Order's mother house has been the handsome, red brick, well-landscaped Monastery of the Holy Cross, across the Hudson from Hyde Park. There the monks rise at 5:25 each morning with the words: "Thanks be to God." Four hours of their day are spent in meditation, prayer and the seven tradi tional offices of worship (Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers and Com pline), in which psalms are sung in ancient plain song. During the rest of the day the monks clean house, mow lawns, cultivate their gardens, collect their laundry and mail (in a 1941 station...
...Yale is looking for a venture which will be acclaimed for its leadership and vision in the country and in the world," said the committee, "we believe that this is the venture. ... A study of prayer, faith and deeds will be no less profitable than the same sort of study in economics and agriculture...
...minute past midnight, July 14, the most successful military staff alliance in European history-SHAEF-was formally dissolved at Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Said SHAEF's Boss Dwight David Eisenhower to his British and American officers: "It is my fervent hope and prayer that the unparalleled unity . . . will . . . point the way to a permanent and lasting peace...
...Paris a small, thin Jewish boy from Budapest was learning to say the Pater Noster. Since he had come to live with French foster parents he had almost for gotten the old prayer, Mole ani lefa-neha...
...solemn session in Manhattan last week, the Union called the prayer book a compound of "atheism, heresy and disbelief . . ." and hurled at Dr. Kaplan (who is not a member of the Union) a proclamation of excommunication* -first in its history. Then, after Rabbi Israel Rosenberg, president of the Union, banned the Kaplan-edited prayers from all synagogues, an excited young rabbi set fire to a copy of the book...