Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Halepule Opio (Hawaiian for "house of prayer for youth") is one solution to the pastor's age-old problem of how to make spiritual contact with youths sitting bored and unmoved through sermons aimed at adults. The Rev. John Morrett, now dean of Honolulu's Episcopal cathedral, founded Halepule Opio in 1956 with special teen-age services in a Holy Nativity chapel. Two years later the parish financed for the project a $160,000 building that included the church (easily convertible to a gym), a kitchen and meeting rooms. The youthful congregation was in on the planning from...
...into tears, as did the President of Tanganyika, and countless anonymous men and women. Along Rome's Via Veneto grief sounded operatic. "E morto!" people called to one another, and at a cocktail party the guests put down their glasses and began to recite the Lord's Prayer...
Samuel H. Miller, Dean of the Faculty, delivered the prayer. "Our tongues are stunned by a violence we cannot believe; our prayers stumble in the darkness of our shame; we see through a glass darkly, while the shadows shift and fade into the long tragedy of hate and fear that emingly never ends," he said...
...Ever since the Supreme Court outlawed prayer and Bible reading in public schools, some Congressmen have felt that the nine Justices needed a little reminder that the nation-and the court -was still subject to a higher authority. One method proposed by South Carolina Democrat Robert T. Ashmore, in a bill before the House, is to inscribe the words "In God We Trust" on the marble frieze above the Supreme Court bench...
...June 1960, to the surprise of her Texas friends, Sarita dropped the three members of the foundation, substituted Brother Leo and two prominent Catholics from the East Coast: Millionaire Layman J. Peter Grace, president of W. R. Grace & Co., and the Rev. Patrick Peyton, C.S.C., head of a prayer-crusading organization called Family Rosary, Inc. Eight months later Sarita died of cancer in a Manhattan hospital; Brother Leo, her constant companion during her last days, was at her bedside...