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...Church's lax policy on religious observance for choir members helps keep them there. During the Sunday services, choir members are concealed from the congregation by the altar screen, and are known to read or doze off during the sermon...
...then, in a rapid acceleration that mirrors the explosion of events in the Gospels, the Pope over seven days visited Bethlehem; surveyed not one but two spots where Jesus may have been baptized; offered Mass from the site of Christ's Sermon on the Mount; climbed the steps to the upper room where tradition places the Last Supper; prayed at Gethsemane, where Jesus was betrayed; and, just before flying back to Rome, celebrated Mass again at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the site at which Catholics and the Eastern churches believe Jesus was buried and resurrected. (Protestants believe Jesus...
...enjoyed a moment of triumph on Friday when, on the mountain where Jesus was said to have delivered the Sermon on the Mount, he celebrated Mass for 80,000 mostly youthful believers. They were from around the world, but a sizable number were Lebanese, and parts of the Mass were in Arabic. Said Wadie Abu-Nassar, director of the Great Jubilee Office in Jerusalem: "Since the time of Jesus, no one has ever managed to bring a crowd like this together in a peaceful way. When crowds like this have gathered in the past it was normally...
That hillside, however, is where Jesus supposedly delivered the Sermon on the Mount. There, overlooking the Sea of Galilee, the Pope will address a congregation of 100,000 and share with them Christ's body and blood. Some things are worth every bit of trouble that goes into them...
...soul to undertake the battle of righteousness. It taught him to renounce personal desires not by withdrawal from the world but by devotion to the service of his fellow man. In the Christian New Testament he found the stirrings of passive resistance in the words of the Sermon on the Mount...