Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...League, with an excellent 6-1 record. If Columbia, presently in third at 4-2, can pull the upset of the year against Brown today, the Crimson will tie for the title. It's a faint hope, but if you've a free minute today, say a little prayer for the Lions...
...Rothberg is far too skilled a storyteller to let him escape unscathed. Nissim has always lost whatever he has loved, but he has survived, and at last he no longer doubts the value of that gift. "On the last six days of Passover," he says, "Jews say a special prayer-the half Hallel. Tradition has it that when the Egyptians, in pursuing the Jews, were drowning in the Red Sea, the Lord kept His angels from singing His praises, admonishing them, 'How can you sing hymns while my creatures are drowning in the sea?'' Perhaps, he decides...
...widows and orphans from being robbed by Wall Street." He became engaged to another agnostic, Esther Yanovsky, and together they drew up their own marriage service; much to their dismay, the judge who presided at their 1942 wedding* blandly used the formula from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer...
...that "the Conservatives can drive on the Sabbath." The Conservative movement does not give a blanket endorsement to riding on the Sabbath. Doing so is permitted only when attendance at services would otherwise be unreasonably difficult or impossible. It is believed that the positive value of participation in public prayer outweighs the negative value of not riding. For other purposes, riding on the Sabbath destroys the serenity and sanctity appropriate to that...
Ecumenism on the parish level has for the most part been expressed in terms of interfaith dialogues and common prayer services. But it can also lead to common action. One such method of putting unity into practice is "The Fish," a fast-growing network of dedicated Christians who carry out Jesus' command to "love thy neighbor" by cooperatively providing for the needy such homely but useful services as emergency baby sitting, hot meals, free transportation to the hospital and company for the aged...