Word: prays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were still drifting into the park. The office of Philadelphia's Archbishop John F. O'Hara had no comment to make on the reported vision. But Father Nicholas Lazzaro, whose parish adjoins Fairmount Park, ventured an observation. Said he: "If the people want to go there and pray, it is their business. Certainly, it will not get them into any trouble...
...huge sugar plantations many of the harvesters failed to report for work. Each morning before sunup, some 2,000 (an estimated 10% of the labor force) gathered in Masonic lodges and Burial Society halls from the outskirts of New Orleans to the Atchafalaya River to sing hymns, pray, sip coffee and idle away the day. After generations of precarious existence on the big plantations, the cane workers were out on an organized strike. Their wages (minimums are set by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as part of a 1?-a-lb. sugar subsidy program) average from $700 a year...
...Hilarion, a onetime sexton now in his early 30s, and Brother Bernardo, an ex-medical student in his late 20s. were both dissatisfied with the purely contemplative life. They decided to start an order that, by combining contemplation with work, would fulfill the seventh precept of spiritual mercy, to pray for the souls of the living and dead, and the seventh precept of corporal mercy, to bury the dead...
...tiny kitchen. All day long, they labor in the graveyard, clearing paths, repairing crumbling headstones, replacing rusty iron crosses and digging graves, an average of one a day. Each day they rise at 2 a.m. to walk in meditation through the cemetery to the tiny chapel, where they pray until...
...then told us to use the Morse Code and tap it out on the bulkhead." The sailors didn't know the code, so the injured officer taught them how to hammer out SOS with a wrench and a wooden stick. "Then he said, 'Let us pray.' He led us in the Lord's Prayer. He never mentioned his pain once." After half an hour, rescue workers heard the tapped-out SOS and groped their way to the trapped men. The heroic officer, Lieut. Leonard M. De Rose, a Reserve flier, died later...