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...Case of the Sleepy Parishioner. "The goal of my Administration is to work for a greater society. I have come here today to ask your help in that work. I don't want you to answer me like the man who slept through the preacher's sermon down in my hill country. Every Sunday he would come and get in the front row and sleep all during the sermon. Finally the preacher got a little irritated, and one Sunday he said, 'All you people'-the fellow was snoring in the front row-he said...
...five other faiths to form a great new denomination, both catholic and reformed. "I don't use the term 'sinful' about our separation," he explains. "Our unity must be of the spirit. I don't think it demands one organization." Kennedy firmly believes that the sermon should remain at the center of Methodist worship. He has no patience with what he calls a "sloppy, unbuttoned service," but he is skeptical about claims that more and better liturgy is the solution to the church's problems. Says he: "The church with the most beautful liturgy...
...entirely appropriate. For instance, Cowboy dresses all in white, like an angel, and he brings with him Sister Salvation (Barbara Winchester), a little old lady with whom he has allied himself as protection against the police. While the addicts file in for their fixes, she delivers a little sermon, but the salvation she offers is as insubstantial as Cowboy...
After each lecture, the Cursillistas divide into smaller groups to discuss its application to their lives, draw pictures that illustrate the sermon's main points. To relieve spiritual tension, the Cursillo schedule provides moments of respite in which the students tell jokes and sing songs, notably a jaunty little Spanish folk tune called De Colores (Of Colors) that has become the unofficial theme of the Cursillo. Sample verse...
Last night's Stay-Out rally was more than a rally. It was a camp meeting, church sermon, political convention, vaudeville act, and song festival all rolled into the happiest, saddest, funniest, most moving program ever to rock Donnelly Auditorium...