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...Lehmann is well borne out by the series' first published volume -No. 12, Luther's commentaries on selected Psalms. In his thoughts on the 23rd Psalm ("The Lord is my Shepherd"), Luther uses King David's great song as a commentary against what he considered a major evil of the Roman Catholic Church he knew...
...faithful that Babylon will be overthrown and the Jews restored to their ancient homeland. At novel's end, the first of the Jews are on the homeward march. Occasionally moving in his hours of trial, Asch's man of God often seems less the eloquent, God-intoxicated psalm-singer of the great Biblical text ("Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion . . .") than a bearded positive thinker doling out pep talks to the dispirited...
...still managed to save enough cash to chip in with his brothers and open a chain of neighborhood groceries. From his Negro mother. Roy learned piety. Al though his father was a Roman Catholic, his mother took him to Baptist church, raised him on the precepts of the 23rd Psalm. Today. Campy sees nothing un usual in the fact that he sends his own old est son to a Presbyterian Sunday school simply because it fields a smart "Little League" baseball team...
...priests. They themselves still subdue their bodies with whips. Writes Mother Catherine Thomas: "In Carmel, when we are inflicting this penance upon ourselves, we have more than our own bodies and our own souls in mind. It is true that we accompany the flagellation with the chanting of the psalm Miserere for our own sins; but we also recite prayers at this time for the exaltation of the church, for peace and concord on earth, for our benefactors, for the souls in Purgatory, for those in the state of sin, and for those in captivity...
Before the window is a simple oak altar topped by two vases of fresh flowers and a spotlighted Bible (King James version, open to the 23rd Psalm). The room's only other furniture: an American flag, two electric candelabra, a pair of kneeling benches and ten armchairs. For four days last week, the public got its first and last look at the room; henceforth, it will be open to Senators and Representatives only. A screen covering the entrance will ensure privacy, but an attendant will be allowed to call meditating legislators to the telephone or to the floor when...