Word: prays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...house stocked with food"). She spoke to Carpenter on the phone just before liftoff, then took her children to the beach to watch the shoot. She said no prayers. "I feel the same way as Scott," she explained, referring to Carpenter's conviction that it is presumptuous to pray for oneself. After blastoff, she turned to watch the rest on television. She later admitted that she felt concerned only when first reports showed that radar contact had been lost with the space capsule after reentry. Beyond that, she had no worries: "I've been thoroughly checked...
...papal plea looked toward the forthcoming meeting of the Roman Catholic Church's ecumenical council, for which some 2,300 clerics and theologians will flock to Rome, many for their first view of the city. Urged Pope John, in a 4,500-word letter to Romans: Pray for "mortification of lust, aversion to mundane pomp and detachment from excessive avidity of riches . . . We like to call Rome a Holy City. God forbid it become a city of perversion...
...PRAYER: If we do not pray, we fail to realize that we are in the presence of God. God opens this road to us; he commands us to pray. Thus it is not possible to say "I shall pray" or "I shall not pray" as if it were an act according to our own good pleasure...
...night, long after the other nuns have retired, she stays awake to pray; in her cell she has a "discipline" with the tiny whip that certain religious use to scourge themselves in mortification. In her soli tary life, Sister Nazarena prays, explains one nun, "for you, for me, for all of us." Solitude with her God seems to agree with her. "She is the most serene person I have ever known," says her abbess Mother Hildegarde. "She is a saint...
...practical, unprincipled, illegitimate son. Jorge works hard to make his half of the hacienda a paying proposition. Viridiana turns her half into a refuge for the rag, tag and bobtail of the province-beggars, footpads, lepers, trulls. While Jorge and his hired men work, Viridiana and her rabble pray...