Word: sermonizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Technicolor cross sets the tone neatly for the television service, a bland but professional blend of folksy, pep-talk piety and bubbly, inspirational hillbilly music-a Norman Vincent Apeale to a Lawrence Welk constituency. The music is no mere come-on; in the hour-long show, Humbard's sermon usually takes little more than 15 minutes. The Cathedral Singers-including Rex's wife Maude Aimee, a pert, peppery, brunette soprano who becomes properly demure for the Gospel numbers-are the stars. Smoothly pancaked, eyelashed, and carefully coiffed in styles of the '60s, the girls come...
...visit Bishop Lamy's Romanesque cathedral and his private chapel, the quiet peace of the chapel was more an expression of personal faith, small moments of calm perception, at least in Santa Fe, today, the cathedrals are losing people, that day the bishop was in the middle of a sermon, through the door- in ?iam pacts above a straight line barreling protest or denial, when we are of the same humanity it is hard to deny each other "I make mistakes everyone does" wide stance sitting knees up and down back and forth rocking "your presence is your faith...
Those who don't know the liturgy of the Sabbath Assembly are given, as they enter, a booklet that contains a printed outline of the service, with the appropriate invocations, responses, and indications of the places where sermon-like talks are given by "Superiors" of the Process...
...harsh, flinty, arrogant valor of the 19th century New England mind, which, demanding much of others, demanded even more of itself. With a God such as Melville's, one scarcely needs a Devil. He, like Hawthorne, might have taken for his text Jonathan Edwards' fearsome sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." It is those hands, and not Moby Dick's great maw, that finally engulf Pequod and its doomed captain and crew...
...Berrigan, both in his action and in his Germantown sermon, has indicated the necessity of resistance and some of the numerous means of carrying it out. "There are a hundred ways of non-violent resistance up to now untried or half-tried, or badly tried, but the peace will not be won without such serious and constant and sacrificial and courageous action on the part of a large number of good men and women. The peace will not be won without the moral equivalent of the loss and suffering and separation that the war itself is exacting...