Word: sermonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture opens with young Francis and his twelve disciples returning to Umbria in 1209 after receiving the Pope's blessing for their work. A succession of loosely linked episodes depicts Francis delivering his famous sermon to the birds; the tormented Francis embracing a leper in a moving, wordless scene punctuated only by the clank of the leper's warning clapper and Francis' sobs as he throws himself on the ground; zealous Friar Juniper cutting off a little pig's foot to make soup for a sick brother; Friar Juniper's selflessness triumphing over the bloody...
Book of Revelation. In Tulsa, the Rev. J. Frank Davis announced the title of his sermon for the forthcoming Sunday evening service: "Why Half the People I Know Ought to Go to Hell...
Theodore Wedel, wife of the new president of the House of Deputies: "We Episcopalians will grow up eventually." At other meetings throughout the week, the delegates: Heard an opening sermon in Boston's Old North Church by the world's No. 1 Anglican, Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury. Warned Dr. Fisher, making a rare appearance on television:*"The essentially Christian virtues of moderation and toleration are assailed by extremisms and fanaticism all over the world, by doctrines of 'apartheid,' by demands that 'what we want is therefore our right, and we must have...
...Greatest Story Ever Told (Sun. 5:30 p.m., ABC). First of an eight-part series based on the Sermon on the Mount...
...George Templeton Strong, a New York boy of 15, began a diary. In its first few years the diary recorded a gleeful account of student pranks at Columbia, a burlesque of its president's sermon on "The Moral Turpitude of Snow-Balling," a solemn discovery that Shelley's poetry was "rather humbuggical." By the time of Strong's death in 1875, the diary, with a massive total of 4.500,000 words, had become a solid record of 19th century life, a treasure house of Americana...