Word: prays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reviewer of The Wobblies [July 7] took me through iambic, pentameter, didactic, hortatory, diffident, progenitor, detestation, existentialism, scintilla, quixotic, schematic, protagonist, bourgeois, onomatopoetically, proletariat, crux, status quo, ante, minimal, prosody, recalcitrant, quiescent, ideologically, ascendancy, coalesce, dactyl and elegiac. But what, pray, is a bindle stiff? Is it possible that your man owns all these words as an integral part of his vocabulary...
Every Christian is expected to gather with others "...to praise God, to hear his Word for mankind, to baptize and to join in the Lord's Supper, to pray for and present the world to him in worship, to enjoy fellowship, to receive instruction, strength, and comfort, to order and organize (the church's) corporate life, to be tested, renewed, and reformed, and to speak and act in the world's affairs as may be appropriate to the needs of the time...
Without question, too, archaic laws governing personal behavior still frustrate and hurt some of Catholicism's loyal sons and daughters-and few of Father Kavanaugh's readers will doubt that his concern for their human tragedies is both passionate and sincere. Nonetheless, many Catholics who hope and pray for renewal may have cause to suspect that Kavanaugh's angry and oversimplified criticism can only hurt rather than help the forces of change within the church...
Israel's conquest of Jordanian Jerusalem, which sent thousands of devout Jews to pray in freedom before the historic Wailing Wall for the first time in centuries, has raised an interesting theo logical conundrum. Assuming that Israel keeps the Wall, which is one of the few remaining ruins of Judaism's Second Temple, has the time now come for the erection of the Third Temple...
...Romans in A.D. 70. Last week, for the festival of Shavouth, which commemorates the handing down of the Law to Moses, the Old City was opened for the first time in 19 years to ordinary Israelis. By day's end, 200,000 thronged to see the Wall and pray...