Word: sacraments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many of today's Presbyterians would be considered nominal, if not heretical, by their precursor, John Calvin? It is also hard to understand how he can call a church which runs schools, hospitals, retreat houses, etc., out of all proportion to their small numbers, and also provides a Sacrament for those who feel the need of it, uninterested in moral problems...
Newlyweds and oldsters approaching their golden-wedding anniversaries, bankers, soldiers, industrialists, doctors and union organizers listened again and again to Father Schmiedeler's even flow of words, reminding them of the spiritual meanings of their marriages. "Christian marriage," he said, "is a grace-giving institution and a sacrament of the Church in the same sense that the priesthood is a sacrament . . . Marriage is a symbol of the union of Christ with his followers, and the Christian family is a replica of Christ and the Church . . . The family which loves God, which serves God, which is in eternal union with...
Marie Dionne, 19, last-born, smallest and shyest of the famed quintuplets, said farewell to Papa and Mama Dionne in Callander, Ont., left for Quebec City to become a postulant in the convent of the Servants of the Very Holy Sacrament...
...Nineteen-year-old Quintuplet Marie Dionne, for whom half the world prayed when her life flickered for days after her birth, announced that she would become a nun. She will enter the convent of the Sisters of the Holy Sacrament in Quebec City this fall, a cloistered order devoted to perpetual adoration of the Holy Sacrament. "From now on," she said, "I will have an opportunity to repay those people who remembered me when I was in need...
...into the night and rising early to ring the bell for Mass. Twice she is said to have saved Assisi from invading armies. In 1234, when the Saracen soldiers of Frederick II scaled the walls of San Damiano by night, Clare confronted them in an open window holding the Sacrament. The soldiers fled. Later a larger force returned and Clare led her sisters in prayer. Suddenly a huge storm arose that scattered the tents of the enemy, who once again fled in panic...