Word: sinless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came after the 4th Century. Multiplication of churches began to spread the clergy thin, and led to the short, popular "low Mass" performed by one priest alone, in which the congregation took little part. A notion also arose that the Communion was only for those whose lives were almost sinless. As a result of these and other factors, says Dix, the Communion came to be looked upon more & more as a rite which the priesthood performed for the laity, rather than with it. The congregation came to look, rather than to participate. "Heave it higher, Sir Priest!" was the plea...
...Once in a hotel in Birmingham, he told a Negro maid that his dummy keyboard (for limbering up between concerts) was a holy piano whose music could be heard only by the pure and sinless. Then he ran off a long, soundless glissando. When he looked up, the maid had disappeared...
...tardily but irresistibly after he was gone-his life was one of the most successful ever lived by man. Three others, and only three, are comparable to it in worldwide influence: Gautmma's self-sacrificing sojourn among men, the stormy career of the Arab Prophet, and the 'sinless years' which found their close on Golgotha...