Word: prays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...silence where they seek the frontier of the spirit. The retreat usually begins on Saturday and ends on Monday. During that time the group worships and communes together. Conversation is shunned, and the silence is broken chiefly to deliver the burden of a testimony to the group or to pray...
...regions where the rains had not yet started, Indians slipped into church to pray before the images of their favorite saints, and in the plazas they danced to the ancient Tlaloc, Aztec god of rain. They prayed that the rains might be plentiful, that the brown land might grow green and that this might be the one year in five when crops would be so good that Mexico could feed itself...
...Journals trying to prove that the Church has become an obstacle between Christ and man. As for spiritual solace, each man, he thinks, must find it within himself, in his own way and in his own time. To converted Roman Catholic Philosopher Jacques Maritain, who once asked him to pray for Christ's guidance, Gide replied: "Understand me, Maritain, I have lived too long and too intimately, and you know it, in the thought of Christ to agree to call on him today as one rings someone up on the telephone. Indeed, it would seem to me unworthy...
Miss Kibbee graduated from Vassar in 1941. "Each year I pray that Vassar will show up well in the figures," she says. So far, Miss Kibbee's prayers have been granted. According to her statistics, Vassar always ranks among the top six women's colleges in the country in its childbirth index...
...mercy: to feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, harbor the harborless, visit the sick, ransom the captive, and bury the dead. Spiritual works of mercy: to instruct the ignorant, counsel the doubtful, admonish sinners, bear wrongs patiently, forgive offenses willingly, comfort the afilicted, and pray for the living and the dead...