Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...affirm that you are responsible, before both the American and Vietnamese peoples, for the existence of the Huong government." Whereupon Chau, Quang and the Buddhists' nominal religious head, Thich Tinh Khiet, announced a 48-hour weekend hunger strike, urging Buddhists to join them in round-the-clock prayer sessions. From Darlac province came an offer of candidates for flaming Buddhist suicides...
...tributes to John F. Kennedy's memory poured forth, ranging from official orations to folk songs, from churchly ritual to crass commercialism, from public breast beating to silent prayer. It was the anniversary of the assassination, and those who knew his quick, sensitive, critical mind could not help but speculate on how he would have commented on the observance...
...separate-actors are chosen for their professional skills and not because they are on the parish roster-he believes that the church can learn from the contemporary stage. "The real experienced truth about man himself" is often better expressed in the "theater of the absurd" than in the Prayer Book, he says, and he puts drama into his unconventional Sunday services. Instead of a sermon, St. Clement's may feature a scene from Beckett's Waiting for Godot. In addition to readings from the Epistles and Gospels, the service has a "contemporary epistle"; last Sunday...
...please the Presbyterians and Methodists, Schellsburg worshipers ask God in the Lord's Prayer to forgive them their "debts" at church services; in Sunday school they use the Lutheran "trespasses." For his order of worship, Kratz borrowed prayers from all four service books, and composed a few himself. Lutheran and United Church hymnals are used. At first, Methodists complained about the solemnity and intricate tonality of the Lutheran chants. Kratz satisfied their wish for more spirited songs by using revival hymns at Sunday school...
...Catholic "sacrament of the sick." Long called "extreme unction," it is still too generally regarded as simply the last anointing before death. But in modern theology a broader and more ancient purpose has been re-emphasized. The sacrament is not only concerned with accommodation to death; it is a prayer to God to restore the patient to good health...