Word: sermonic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sermon Sunday, Gold said Israel's victory in the 1967 Six-Day War triggered a new Jewish consciousness and a new era in Jewish history which he called "the post-assimilationist...
...personal Saviour." His decision came at a special series of "renewal" services at his church, where he heard a St. Louis minister preach on the famous text from the Gospel of St. John, in which Jesus tells Nicodemus that he must be "born again" to gain eternal life. "The sermon turned my life around," recalls Wright. Now he rises at 5:30 a.m. to read the Bible and pray. He joins fellow Christians in discussion groups and prayer sessions, including one he holds at his bank headquarters before work every Tuesday morning. Once reticent about his faith, he now talks...
Finally, last week began the Dhukor Wangchen (the sermon of the Wheel of Time), one of Buddhism's most elaborate rituals. For each of three days, the air exploded with the bellowing of conch shells and rhythmic prayer chants. Then, in the hush that followed, the Dalai Lama delivered an eight-hour discourse on tantrism, the most magical form of Mahayana Buddhism. Renunciation, enlightened motive and a correct understanding of sunyata (nothingness) are the three prerequisites for the tantric practice, he explained. Disciples were given two reeds to sleep on, one under the pillow, the other under the mattress...
...Such persistence is not hard to fathom. The Dalai Lama is, after all, believed to be the very reincarnation of the Buddha in Buddhism's Tibetan variant. To see him during one of his rare public appearances is a step toward bliss. To hear the Wheel of Time sermon, however, is a guaranteed shortcut to nirvana. Such a blessing is rarely available. A Dalai Lama delivers the sermon only a few times during his lifetime, six being the customary maximum. At Leh, the current Dalai Lama was delivering his sixth sermon...
...Lefebvre demands a return to the "true Bible," the Latin Vulgate of St. Jerome, instead of dangerous "ecumenical" versions. He excoriates progressive interpretations of church doctrine. "If I had done earlier what they teach priests in seminaries to do now, I would have been excommunicated," he lamented in his sermon last week. "If I had taught then the catechisms they teach now, they would have called me a heretic...