Word: prays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...form v. content. Anglicans, via the B.C.P. and the episcopate, keep the form inviolate, even if theology runs helter-skelter. Lutherans, in spite of Helsinki, stand firmly on their Confessions, yet often go through the motions in the most outlandish manner, simply to demonstrate that form means nothing. Pray God that ere too long, the two of us will sit at the same table together-first to talk, ultimately to share the Supper of the Lord...
...Negro leadership. Negro impatience can readily be understood, but whereas peaceful demonstration brings ever more sympathy and strength to the movement, defiance and ultimatums breed doubt, and riots breed hatred that delivers irreparable damage. Poor leadership has lost many a battle regardless of the strength of the troops. I pray that the Negro community will follow those leaders capable of restraint...
Although one would not expect a decision of the Supreme Court to make a very profound impression on a twelve-year-old, last week one of my sixth-graders asked me: "Is it against the law to pray to pass my final exams...
Among Latin America's Roman Catholics, the cult of the saint plays a more vivid role in people's lives than the Mass itself. The feast days honoring patron saints often surpass Christmas in religious fervor, and shrines and grottoes, where miracle seekers pray to their saints, dot the landscape. The church often has to discourage believers in supposed miracles and newly "sainted" beings. Sometimes, as in Brazil last week, this eagerness to accept new visions takes a macabre turn...
...confessor to the Byzantine Emperor. There, he said, the Virgin appeared before him and promised her perpetual protection for the monastery he was building. Eventually, about 80 monks joined him to complete Great Lavra. Today the monastic population is about 2,000, divided into cenobites, who live, work and pray together, and idiorrhythmic monks, who have tiny cottages and apartments and gather only for the Divine Liturgy in church and common meals on great feasts...