Word: sermonic
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...When the Nixon family saw King of Kings, "Julie exclaimed, 'It was wonderful! I cried so much.' Tricia said, 'I didn't cry when Christ died--He had suffered so much. I cried during the Sermon on the Mount because it was so beautiful...
...found Padre Ray back in his chambers, poring over a Spanish Bible in preparation for the sermon he would give at mass the next day. After a few minutes there was a knock at the door, and a campesino walked in, hat in hand and shoulders bent over in what looked almost like a caricature of humility. "Padre, por favor, pudiera venir al cementerio, para rezar por nuestro companero?" So the priest, his face impassive, put on his black vestment, and we were off to the cemetery to say some prayers over the body of a campesino awaiting burial...
...distinct political analogies, particularly to Ionesco's experience just before he left Rumania in 1938, when many of his friends were throwing in with the Fascists. O'Horgan and Barry have removed not only the politics but the resonance as well. What remains is a squeaky sermon on the virtues of nonconformity...
Throughout the half-hour sermon, Graham never once mentioned the campaign that was supposed to have been the evangelical catchword of the year: Key 73 (TIME, Feb. 19). As labored over for six years by Graham's organization and more than 150 other participating groups, Key 73 was intended to be a broad ecumenical effort to spread the Gospel-CALLING OUR CONTINENT TO CHRIST as the slogan put it. But by year's end most people on the continent had scarcely heard...
Jerry Lewis has taken to its pulpit to deliver a sermon on what it means to him to be a Jew. Walter Matthau has charmed his fellow congregants with a rendition of Sholom Aleichem stories. Love Story Author Erich Segal read a poem on forgiveness for Yom Kippur. The site of all this star-powered piety? One of Hollywood's newest in-spots, the Synagogue for the Performing Arts...