Word: prays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even have the right idea; but that they won't vote for him. "He's too talky," said one elderly lady. "Every time I open the paper he has something to say, and always about different problems." "I've lived through two wars," said another, "and I pray every night that we won't have a third. I think we're wrong about this Cuba business, and we're making too many bombs." Why won't she vote for Meyer? "I don't know, I just disagree with...
...such a sufferer may feel cut off from his family, unable to admit or what he suspects. "He can't turn to them, or lean on them; he can't ask their forgiveness; he can't set his affairs in order or say the words, or pray the prayers or cry the tears that must be shed because all of this can only be done when he is permitted the luxury of facing his death." The clergymen administering to such a case "must speak guardedly of death as if it is years away; he must administer...
Philip's greatest achievement was what he called the Oratory. It started as a simple gathering of priests and laymen, meeting to pray, read and discuss spiritual matters. Gradually it grew into a full-fledged community, with its own church and chapter house and a program for giving food and shelter to pilgrims. During the Jubilee Year of 1575, according to contemporary accounts, the Oratory opened its doors to 144,913 visitors and served 365,132 meals. The musical form, oratorio, derives its name from Philip's community, where it was partly developed by Florentine Composer Giovanni Animuccia...
...have no objection to a short prayer for Francis Powers, as some have suggested, but doesn't it seem more important for us to pray for a clearer national direction and a more genuine educational system, so that technicians like Powers might learn more than simply which buttons to push? All the tears, family sentimentality and public sympathy can't wash away the ''damned spot" of Powers' only apparent motive and interest: that...
...confessions. They will no longer tolerate the loss of energy used to legitimatize confessional positions, while -by the dizzying increase of population-men without knowledge of God grow more numerous day by day. It is not enough to love only those who confess Jesus Christ as I do and pray...