Word: saviour
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...wake will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday, June 29, at Holy Saviour Church in Haddon Township, New Jersey. The funeral will take place at 11 a.m. the following day, also at the Holy Saviour Church...
...this trio of fine actresses is eclipsed by a bit player, Norma Dell'-Agnese, as a teenage novice on the day she is accepted into the order. An innocent ecstasy suffuses her face as she becomes a "bride of Christ"; she has found release in her surrender to the Saviour's discipline. Her radiance explains the deepest mysteries: God is love, and sisterhood is beautiful. --By Richard Corliss
...actual birth announcement is in Luke 2: 11. An angel proclaims, "Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy ... for unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." And "suddenly," Luke continues, "there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will...
...enough just to have a Gospel. You need a congregation to truly contemplate the event. Even among congregations inclined toward the most politically progressive analysis of Scripture, when the angel in their pageants intones, "For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord," valid issues of Christianity's relationship to empires (past and present) recede; hearts hear a simple joyous proclamation of salvation...
...that region's poverty and oppression, includes a focus on the social dimensions of sin and grace. Thus the death of Jesus and his Resurrection are a liberation from the power of both personal sin and social sin, such as injustice, racism and sexism. Feminist theologians ask, Can a Saviour who is male save women? Some say yes, seeing in the death of Jesus the gift of his whole self for the sake of his mission of liberation. As servant and Saviour, Jesus affirms that all, men and women, are called to the same depth of self-giving. SUSAN RAKOCZY...