Word: prays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meyer opened worship with an invocation written by Martin Luther, who nearly five centuries ago had burned Pope Leo X's excommunication bull: "We pray you, Lord, and we beg you that with the aid of your Spirit, you will return to unity what was fragmented . . ." In his homily, spoken in German, the Pope declared, "This meeting moves me to the bottom of my heart." He added, "We ardently desire unity and we make every effort to achieve it without being discouraged by the difficulties we may meet on our road." The words echoed a papal letter honoring...
...into months and weeks? The Romans decreed a week of eight days and a day of twelve hours, but the day itself was measured solely by the length of sunlight, so the units of time varied in different places and seasons. Not until medieval monks conceived an obligation to pray at fixed hours of the night did their need spur the invention of a mechanical clock that worked in the dark...
...Knees and pray...
...Gnat that had been buzzing about the head of the Bull, at length settling himself down upon his horn, begged his pardon for incommoding him, "but if," says he, "my weight at all inconveniences you, pray say so and I will be off in a moment." "Oh, never trouble your hand about that," says the Bull, "for 'tis all to me whether you go or stay; and, to say the truth. I did not know you were there...
Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci set the tone for the meeting, when he used the customary minute of silence after the opening Pledge of Allegiance to "give the councilors all a minute to pray on the night before election...