Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Game in a Temple. Even Japanese who found shelter had little warmth. American Army blankets sold for $66 on the Tokyo black market. Emperor Hirohito, democratically trying to get along on the same rations as his people shivered in his chilly palace, warmed only by a few small electric "bugs." To save coal, railway officials planned to silence train whistles; more wistfulness than thermodynamics went into their estimate of 100 tons a day thus saved. Tokyo newspapers sadly reported a touching little story which underlined the clothing shortage: seven small children playing in a temple compound were approached...
...Father Gibson celebrated the 25th anniversary of his ordination. To one friend who telephoned him, he said with characteristic humility: "Now this has made the day very nice for me to receive your congratulations-but you just keep still about it, because no one out here at the [Cathedral] Shelter knows a thing about...
...bishop set him to work running the Cathedral Shelter, which helped out the indigent and homeless with food, clothes and, when possible, a fresh start. Gibson took to it so naturally that the bishop finally called him to enter the clergy. At 53, after a year's tutoring in theology, he became a deacon, and two years later was ordained a priest. In 1932 he was appointed a canon of the Cathedral...
...lives alone in a small apartment. He rises at 4 each morning to spend an hour or so in prayer. He prays and thinks in terms of the present day only, never worries about tomorrow ("God hasn't given me tomorrow yet"). By 7, he is at the Shelter, where he celebrates Mass in the small, blue-walled chapel. Each night he is home...
...Cathedral Shelter is next door to Father Gibson's old-fashioned Church of the Epiphany. Last year, 7,051 persons were interviewed at the Shelter, which provided 9,661 free meals and 2,801 nights' lodging. But the ministry of Father Gibson (who also serves the inmates of Cook County Jail and the Chicago House of Correction) cannot be reduced to statistics, it is perhaps best understood in the stories men tell...