Word: sermonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...known for our capacity to make sacrifices and to die a brave death," he told his flock last November in his first public sermon after being released by the Communists. "Poles know how to die magnificently. But, my dear ones, Poles must learn to work magnificently. When one dies one may get glory quickly; but to live in toil, suffering pain and sacrifice for years is greater heroism, and this greater heroism is needed today...
...strength. By 1948, the Communists decided to move in and take over. They were just beginning to bring pressure on the nation's youth when Bishop Wyszynski was appointed archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw, and hence Primate of Poland to succeed the late Cardinal Hlond. In his first sermon in Warsaw's baroque Church of the Carmelite, Wyszynski declared: "I am neither a politician nor a diplomat. I am your spiritual father, your shepherd, bishop of your souls...
Wyszynski's resistance to the Communists stiffened. When a Polish bishop was tried on phony espionage charges, Wyszynski delivered an angry sermon in which he said: "Today they speak of criminals, perhaps tomorrow one will speak of holy criminals." On Sept. 25, 1953, the secret police came to take him away. Cardinal Wyszynski had still one more touch of consideration for the enemy: when one of the arresting officers was bitten by a watchdog, the cardinal insisted on personally bandaging his hand...
...preached his first sermon at Warsaw's Church of the Holy Cross, where he had been scheduled to speak just before being taken prisoner. "My dear children of God.'" he began. "I am a little late-only a little more than three years. Forgive me; it is the first time that anything like that has happened...
...from always turning good into bad. Morris manages to get through each day without dishonesty or cheating. He dies of a heart bursting with regret that "I gave away my life for nothing." But Morris was wrong, and Novelist Malamud proves him so in a tenderly moving funeral sermon by a rabbi who never knew...