Word: prays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passion Sunday morning in Rome, Pope Pius XI was, with highest ceremonial, to inaugurate the extraordinary Holy Year which he announced last Christmas and explained last month as a means for "spiritual raising up of hearts and minds . . . universal concert of good works and prayers. . . . We propose to pray every day and we invite everyone to do so with us." Coupling President Roosevelt's New Deal with the Pope's Holy Year would be churchmanship indeed. And no church in the U. S. save the Roman Catholic was geared...
...Walls. In solemn, robed procession the Pope will move from the Vatican to the front portico of St. Peter's. Thrice he will knock, with a golden hammer, on the Holy Door. Within, Sanpietrini (St. Peter's workmen) will lower the door away. The Pope will pray while prelates sprinkle the aperture with holy water. Then all will enter, kissing the jambs as they pass. Thereafter the public may enter all through the year. Calendar, Audiences with Pius XI will become increasingly frequent through the year. Railway and steamship lines advertising Holy Year tours point out that scarcely...
...Canada's pious Premier Richard Bedford Bennett. The Groups were welcomed to Montreal by Anglican Bishop John Cragg Farthing. In Toronto a minister of the United Church of Canada, Rev. Dr. James Little, was so changed that for the first time in 20 years he was able to pray successfully. A Toronto businessman and his wife joined in, soon changed their chauffeur...
Abruptly Dictator Kemal yielded. "Let them pray as they please, temporarily," he growled. Beaming, his Minister rushed off to proclaim the glad respite only a few hours before the new moon appeared. "On account of the general unpreparedness of the muezzins and imams," they suavely declared, "prayers may be offered and the Koran recited in Arabic during the present month of Ramadan, but discourse by the imams must be in Turkish...
Straightway Patriarch Varnava commanded all Orthodox Jugoslavs, in Jugoslavia to pray on the following Sunday "for the return of prosperity to the United States...