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...Miles Christi might have rejoiced at the example of Mother Mary Katharine Drexel of the Philadelphia Drexels, founder (in 1891) and first superior general of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People, who gave that order her income from a $14 million trust that she and two sisters inherited from her father, Banker Francis Anthony Drexel, and in her will left the sisters her personal estate of $110,000. She died...
...tune." Similarly, it may be disconcerting to some Roman Catholics to find "Protestants who live under the corporate discipline of the Word of God, who believe expressly that they must live in utter subjection to that Word and who believe in the real presence of Jesus Christ in the sacrament-to say nothing of affirming their own interpretation of the Catholic belief that 'outside the church there is no salvation...
...first passed off as just another fellow prisoner, into a garrulous, sentimental clown. As the axman prattles on about being not some "unfamiliar terrible somebody, but a tender friend," Author Nabokov develops the memorable conceit that the rite of execution is both a public festival and a black sacrament, in which victim and executioner are as intimately linked as bride and groom...
...both "afflictive and curative." He suggests four kinds of afflictive penances: 1) voluntary mortification, such as early rising, giving up smoking; 2) cheerful acceptance of suffering, such as hunger, humiliation, a bad cold; 3) doing a good deed; 4) "a somewhat burdensome prayer or a visit to the Holy Sacrament on one's knees." Father Lamera would adapt "curative" penances to individual weaknesses: e.g., for the proud. "You will not talk about yourself...
Half the ministers doubt that the value of the sacrament of Communion depends entirely upon the attitude of the participant, while less than 20% of the laymen show any uncertainty...