Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lutheran minister presided as a mixed congregation of Catholics and Protestants recited his church's version of vespers; a priest and a Baptist minister alternated reading the lessons. Last fall, in Boca Raton, Fla., an Anglican priest celebrated Mass before another interfaith group, using a new canon, or prayer of consecration, composed by a Dutch Jesuit...
...Common Lectionary. This convergent evolution of worship seems likely to continue. The Church of England will soon introduce an experimental order of Communion that is structurally closer to the Catholic Mass than existing forms, and includes a translation of the Lord's Prayer identical to the one recited by Catholics. Looking ahead, liturgists hope that eventually Catholics and Protestants will share a common lectionary and thus hear the same selections from Scripture on the same Sundays throughout the year...
...home by research into the origins and forms of the rites used by the early Christians. Eventually, suggests Benedictine Liturgist Godfrey Diekmann of St. John's Abbey in Minnesota, Protestants and Catholics may be able to share, as an alternative to existing rites, a common form of Eucharistic prayer, possibly based on a simple liturgy used in the early church...
...dimness of the University of Chicago's Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, pretty Coed Susan Alberi, 18, passed her fellow worshiper a note. Would he please kneel in prayer? With a smile, he complied. "He thought I was trying to pick him up," Susan recounts gleefully. "Instead I choked him with my rosary...
...seemingly well-planned political career, he has claimed, and there is every reason to think he has really believed, that he had not decided to take the next one. He came to the decision to run for Governor in 1962 only after a well-publicized day of fasting and prayer. The fact that it was well publicized and that there were plenty of Romney-for-Governor buttons available in Bloomfield Hills the next day only proves that his supporters recognized more clearly than he did how surely his actions for the past three years had been pointing toward the Governorship...