Word: sacraments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other wartime emergencies it is the duty of Roman Catholic laymen to rescue the Host from the altar or to gather up any Hosts or pieces of Hosts which may have been blasted to the sanctuary floor. Normally only priests and deacons are supposed to handle the Blessed Sacrament...
Like most of his sermons, Father Heitker's sermon last week was short (it tires the deaf to concentrate for long on hands or lips). Then came Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. With signs priests and people sang O Salutaris Hostia, Tantum ergo. With signs they prayed for victory ("Oh Lord who art stronger than all the armies. . . .") and for the armed forces...
...declared the prelates, the Germans have laid the heaviest cross. Almost all churches have been closed, some are "used for profane purposes . . . warehouses . . . a riding school." Even priests "who stood up for the German population under the Poles" have been persecuted. "Tabernacles have been broken open . . . the Most Holy Sacrament desecrated in the vilest...
...every odd was Kill-strange sacrament...
...finds it difficult to understand Indian art-which, in any case, it rarely sees. Life for the Occidental is rarely "a prolonged sacrament"-the description of the life of the Indian given in Mr. Loo's catalogue. Hindu and Buddhist art, arising from intense spiritual concentration, assumed symbolic forms and sectarian twists that only long study can clarify. U.S. amateurs can merely distinguish between Hindu art (oddly vital) and Buddhist art (oddly serene...