Word: sermonizer
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...invited guests in Westminster Abbey will be screened off from the altar, Meg has ordered closed-circuit TV sets installed in the Abbey for the first time to relay the proceedings at the altar. Traditionalists were shocked. And when she directed that the Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount should be substituted for the customary address by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the gossipists quickly found an angle: Princess Margaret was slyly getting back at her critics, since the Ninth Beatitude goes: "Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil...
Prophet Sharing. In Melbourne, thieves broke open the Rev. Alfred Bligh's safe, found only notes for a sermon titled "Will...
...dream in which the figure of a man appeared beside Paul's bed and cried: "Come over into Macedonia and help us!" Paul carried the Gospel across the Aegean, through Macedonia and down to Athens, where in the agora below the Acropolis he preached his most famous sermon, proclaiming "the unknown God" to whom the Athenians had erected a monument. Almost as well known is Paul's farewell to the Ephesian elders at Miletus, when they knelt weeping on the shore after he had told them, "You . . . will see my face no more...
...remarkable degree Paul had the grace-especially needed by a missionary -to keep his heart in heaven and his feet firmly planted on the ground. In / Corinthians, after his wise and tolerant sermon on the diversity of spiritual gifts, after his famed passage on love and a triumphant challenge to death ("Where is thy sting?"), he ends with a matter-of-fact "Now concerning the collection...
...that this spring he will once again mount the pulpit of Munich's Ludwigskirche to preach to his perennial audience of Roman Catholic intellectuals, society bluestockings, young people, and aging playboys who come to ogle the pretty girls-said to be found in greater numbers at a Guardini sermon than at a Fasching party...