Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that had long since made Mastroianni (Mass-tro-yahn-ee) one of the most popular actors in Italy. His handsome face, young in its outlines but creased with premature wrinkles, has a frightened, characteristically 20th century look-as of a mantis who has lost faith in the efficacy of prayer. He suggests the all-round fellow of the 1960s who is the antithesis of Renaissance man-painfully aware of nearly everything, truly able at nothing. His spine seems to be a stack of plastic napkin rings. But he has no false bravado, and he is relentlessly attractive. In nearly every...
Canceling all audiences, Pope John retreated to his recently restored summer apartments in the Vatican's 9th century Tower of San Giovanni for a week of prayer. On three days last week, every employee, cleric and layman alike, in the Vatican and diocesan chancery of Rome attended special services to offer prayers for the council's success. In dioceses around the world, Catholics joined in special novenas, asking the blessing of God upon the deliberations of the fathers. Uncounted millions of Protestants, asked by their leaders to pray for the council, prayed that it become a landmark...
...such recent effort is a hortatory "hu manitarian prayer," composed by Meth odist Scout Leader Clifford John Mer cer, 23, that has been used in a summer camp run by the Detroit Council of Churches. Sample lines: "God . . . God . . . Hey God! Can you hear me? 0 God, sometimes talking to you is like talking to a brick wall . . . Hey, Fa ther, look at the world - will you look at it, Father?" Churches are constantly experimenting with new ways to bring prayer to the peo ple. On their own initiative, dedicated Christian laymen are experimenting with new forms of corporate worship...
...Continental Airlines distributes cards containing a grace-before-meals along with its lunch and dinner trays. Los Angeles Disk Jockey Dick Whittinghill of KMPC calls up his teen-ager listeners between records, asks them to join him in reciting a close cousin of the New York State Regents' Prayer: "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon thee, and we beg thy blessing upon us, our parents, our teachers, our loved ones and our country.'' Hollywood Psychiatrist Bernice Harker. a Methodist, has installed a tiny chapel in her office for the benefit of waiting patients and passersby...
Peace, Not Minks. In answer, other ministers point out that the day of the "gimme, gimme" prayer is over. "Prayer is not so materialistic any more, like asking for a mink coat to show off," insists Psychiatrist Harker. Ministers and priests point to a recent surge of lay interest in theology and Bible study; as a result, many Christians understand better than ever before that prayer is basically a dialogue with their Creator rather than a summary demand for divine action. Even in prayers of petition, ministers note, the requests are more impersonal: there are fewer demands for better jobs...