Word: prays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Well, it seems the mommas have done it again. I pray that if and when another war breaks out, they will not need to be sorry that their sons did not come home because they wanted softer training...
...young Belgian girl was about to begin her novitiate in an order of nuns whose motto is "Pray and Work," the Superior General gravely warned her: "It is not easy to be a nun. It is a life of sacrifice and self-abnegation. It is a life against nature." Mistaking a will to do good for a vocation to serve God in the cloister, Gabrielle Van der Mal took 17 years to realize that she was not cut out for it. Renunciation of the world did not bring presence of the spirit, and the quest for selflessness became an unwitting...
...During the first year there were only two meals a day of bread and vegetables. Bishop Pinger's Bible and rosary were confiscated. "There is freedom of religion in the new China," his warders told him, "but not for prisoners." They lectured him severely whenever they caught him praying: "I soon learned to pray without showing any outward signs...
...Naturally, the school would have facilities for worship; naturally, the worship would be according to the relaxed rules of Reform Judaism. The Israeli government leased him a two-acre plot at an annual rent of 40?, and Nelson Glueck went ahead, carefully including in his contract the right to "pray, preach and practice Judaism" according to his own understanding...
Sure that being guardian angel to a nun "is a lot more fun/in the race to the state of grace" because all nuns do is pray all day, the angel agrees to change places with her new charge, Sister Angelica, to show her how simple a nun's life really can be. In no time the angel is in hot water with the mother superior for her angelic frankness. When Sister Angelica tells her to stop it, the angel complains: "Do you mean I cannot tell the truth in a convent?" No, says the sister. "Use mental reservation...