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...from my guitar/floating on the silence that surrounds us..." Anyway, I begin to think about the song "Corcovado" again, the October 1964 live version with Astrud Gilberto singing in English (her voice high and light as mountain mist) and Joao Gilberto answering in Portuguese (gentle and soothing as a priest's voice in a confessional) and Stan Getz's tenor sax sweetly flowing through the song like a warm river. "This is where I want to be/here with you so close to me/until the final flicker of life's ember..." It's a song, I think, that will stand...
...book has its flaws. Martin Luther was a Jew hater, but he deserves better than the rushed hatchet job Carroll delivers in attempting to maintain his focus on Catholicism. And the author, a former priest and staunch left-wing Catholic who offers his work "as my personal penance to God, to the Jewish dead and to my children," is not content just to document the stain on his church. He sees anti-Semitism as intimately entwined with issues of Catholic power and authority, and devotes his last 70 pages to a call for a "Vatican Council III" to pursue such...
...look back in history to see that that humanity has survived its many travails over the past millennium. Furthermore, the predictions of the French priest Raoul Glaber that Satan would be unleashed upon us and that the great Apocalypse would arrive last January have not come true. We can also take comfort in what one of our forebears thought of the passage of the last millennium, one thousand years...
Just 20 minutes away, there's a Catholic service being held. The priest stands at the altar, speaking Portuguese to his congregation. They respond to the priest's questions with Portuguese prayers memorized years...
Argaw says she contacted an Ethiopian priest, and they organized services in Ethiopian. For months, the congregation moved from church to church. They currently hold services at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Central Square...