Word: prays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for its sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. The rosary slips through fingers. Mary. Queen of Heaven, stands radiant, "clothed with the sun, the moon under her feet, on her head a crown of twelve stars." Ora pro nobis goes the cry, through centuries. Grateful millions venerate the Blessed Virgin, this year especially, for they celebrate the 1,500th anniversary of the dogmatic, final declaration, by the Church, that Mary was the veritable Mother...
...spot in central Italy whither, according to the story, the Casa Santa (Holy House of Mary and Joseph) was transported from Nazareth in 1295 by angels. Around it was built a great basilica. In the Litany which is sung there every Saturday, the Blessed Virgin is urged to pray for the faithful by her "Divine Maternity and Immaculate Virginity"; then as "Mirror of Justice, Mystical Rose, Tower of David, House of Gold, Ark of the Covenant, Morning Star. Refuge of Sinners, Comforter of the Afflicted, Help of Christians, Queen of All Saints...
...rest of his life. Employed in a lumberyard, he became known as a quiet, pious man. What his fellows did not know was that he slept nights on a plank covered with a single sheet, a block of wood for his pillow. At 2 a. m. he would arise, pray until 5 a. m., then go to Dublin's Gardiner Street Church to make the Stations of the Cross. Because he wore a long overcoat, other worshippers did not notice that he had slit the knees of his trousers the better to abrade his flesh...
...visited her grandparents and came home with a prayer taught her by her grandmother, which the mother felt was a merited rebuke. Another said her child learned little prayers and grace at table at the kindergarten or preschool, which relieved her very much as she wanted her child to pray but had not taught her any prayers because she did not like "Now, I lay me" and thought the Lord's Prayer too long and difficult lor a child...
...Lords, and Members of the House of Commons ... I pray the blessing of Almighty God may rest on your deliberations...