Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bach "Magnificat" is a series of alternating choruses and solos, set to the words of the Virgin Mary's prayer. Except for the lovely "Suscepit Israel" there is nothing particularly virginal about the choruses which include some of the most powerful Bach outside of the B Minor Mass...
...features of Visitation Day Tuesday at the Divinity School will be the dedication of a chapel "for meditation and prayer" which students in the school made from a disused class room and janitor's spare room...
...also pious. In his journal, he usually timed events by "tierce, vespers and compline, three of the canonical hours of prayer." Whenever possible he said his prayers in his cabin at these hours. Says Morison: "A decent formality has always been observed aboard ships at sea, even to our own day . . . any departure from the settled custom is resented by mariners. In Columbus' ships these formalities were observed with a quasi-religious ritual, which lent them a certain beauty...
...just got one of the" so and sos, was infused with the same spirit of the Christ (Matthew XXI: 12, 13) as He overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, and also cracked, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves...
News has been seeping into the U.S. perfume trade that sounds too good to be true. And so it is-except as a Good Neighborly prayer for the future. The news: as substitutes for the rare essential oils and flower "absolutes" of Europe and Asia, Latin American flowers may come to the rescue of the $15,000,000 U.S. perfume industry...