Word: prayers
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Later Gorbachev met privately with many of the leaders. Mitterrand described the new General Secretary as "a calm, relaxed man who appears willing to tackle problems firmly." Said Kohl: "You do not have the impression that you are listening to a Tibetan prayer wheel." Thatcher, who had proclaimed Gorbachev "a man with whom we can do business" after meeting him in Britain last December, said she was not changing her opinion after conversing with him for 55 minutes in Moscow. Said Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney: "He's clearly in command and I think it augurs well for the future...
...five Roman Catholic churches around the U.S., the priests and the congregations recite this prayer at Mass before the consecrated bread and wine are distributed: "We do not presume to come to this thy Table, O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies. We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy Table . . ." The words, unfamiliar to Roman Catholics, come from the Book of Common Prayer, cherished by Anglicans since the first edition of 1549. The passage now forms part of a Vatican-approved hybrid Mass text that...
Father James Parker, one of the traditionalist converts, administers the ; program for ex-Episcopalians under the supervision of Boston Archbishop Bernard Law. Parker explains that the new Mass does not significantly alter the Prayer Book: "The changes are minor and few and have been done to reflect current Catholic liturgical scholarship." Among them: the addition of prayers for the Pope and to the Virgin Mary. Perhaps the most important alteration is the omission of the Prayer Book's proclamation of collective absolution of sins. Rome insists that confession be made individually, and a few strategic word changes make it clear...
...urged the GOP to move away from the embrace of the Moral Majority and its call for prayer in the schools, which he said alienate yuppies and other groups needed to forge a successful majority coalition. Anderson is currently a guest lecturer at Brandeis University in Waltham...
...Icahn, who rode into town on Feb. 12 with a $4.2 billion offer to buy 45% of the company for $60 a share. When added to the more than 5% he already had, that would have given him majority control of the company. Residents of Bartlesville, who had held prayer vigils to ward off Pickens, quickly set about trying to exorcise the new threat. They burned a pile of blue proxy cards that Icahn was using to solicit shares. Women baked heart-shaped cookies with the Phillips 66 logo, sent off a batch to Icahn and stuck in the message...