Word: prays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maria Goretti, daughter of poor sharecroppers on the Pontine marshes south of Rome, was eleven years old. When 19-year-old Alessandro Serenelli tried to rape her, she resisted him, even though he stabbed her to death. As she lay dying, Maria forgave Serenelli and promised to pray for him in heaven. Serenelli served 27 penitent years in prison for his crime and is now a handyman and pig-tender at a Capuchin monastery. There last week he spent the day of Maria's canonization "in prayer more intense than ever...
...wife and a relative in a one-room apartment before he moved to Levittown: "That was so awful I'd rather not talk about it. Getting into this house was like being emancipated." Bill Levitt puts it in his own brash way: "In Levittown 99% of the people pray...
...used to be my habit to go to Calvary Church, New York City, at noon, to pray for guidance to find Christian work, as I felt I had to do something for God. This I had done for some months, when it was as though someone said to me: 'Why don't you stop this praying and go and do something?' So I rose from my knees and went back to my employer [Lord & Taylor], giving my notice that I was leaving, and I walked out into the streets of New York with absolutely not a dollar...
...paper, was known as the "polecat editor," Jack always preferred a gentler and humbler approach. The most celebrated demonstration of its effectiveness was the 1942 Monroe County drought. In a 60-pt. streamer on Page One, Editor Blanton proclaimed: LORD, WE CONFESS OUR SINS, WE ASK FOR FORGIVENESS, WE PRAY FOR RAIN. An hour after the paper hit Main Street, the rains came. Recalls Blanton: "Trouble was, it rained so much the farmers couldn't harvest the crops. The farmers still come to me when we have droughts. 'But please,' they say, 'this time...
HARRY TRUMAN: I don't know whether you fellows ever had a load of hay or a bull fall on you. But last night the moon, the stars and all the planets fell on me. If you fellows ever pray, pray...