Word: prays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...message is told in narrative form, purportedly by an unnamed peasant who wanders through Russia and Siberia with a knapsack of dried bread for food and the charity of man for shelter. His first concern is to find out how one may fulfill the famed Biblical admonition to "pray without ceasing." He consults a number of authorities, only to come away emptyhearted until at last he meets a holy man who teaches him that to pray without ceasing is to pray the Prayer of Jesus. "The continuous interior Prayer of Jesus," the holy man says, "is a constant, uninterrupted calling...
...nation that best fulfills its Godgiven responsibilities is not necessarily the nation that displays the most religiosity. A country possessed of the might of the United States might do better to go into its closet and pray to its Father in secret rather than standing on the street corners parading its piety before men. The temptation is just about irresistible for a powerful nation to rely on its religiosity as proof of its own virtue. Thus is threatened the possibility of sober and responsible political action...
...show how they felt, the town's parents pulled all 360 pupils out of the school. They staged some 35 demonstrations, paraded around with signs reading WE WANT JUSTICE; LET EVERYBODY PRAY: WE WANT OUR HIGH SCHOOL BACK. Last year retired Methodist Minister James C. Rawlings decided to go to court, asked that nuns be barred from teaching in the public schools. This fall 460 citizens filed another suit, charged that the school board was discriminating against Bradfordsville "to promote the policies and purposes of the Roman Catholic Church." Governor Lawrence Wetherby tried to suggest a compromise. But when...
...pray that in all the deliberations here begun Thou wilt save us from pride of opinion, from intolerance and prejudice, and from lightly ascending any throne of judgment...
...this stand, Segura has become almost as unpopular with many of his fellow Roman Catholics as with Protestants (a British Protestant weekly last month headlined an article on Protestants in Spain: "Pray for Your Brethren Behind the Incense Curtain."). Last week the news from Spain was that the Vatican has curbed crusty old Segura's powers. Rome evidently acted in full understanding with Spain's Dictator, Francisco Franco, whom Segura has often snubbed and attacked for 1) not supporting a Spanish monarchy and 2) allowing the Falange party to be too "anticlerical." The Holy See early this month...