Word: vows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sacrifice of Self. There are three main areas to be operated upon, represented by the vows. The vow of poverty, designed to cut through the hampering entanglement of material things, operates on many levels; Carmelites and some other religious are forbidden to use the word "my" except for their faults (they refer to "our" cell, "our" Breviary). Poverty applies equally to any kind of attachment. Sisters are systematically frustrated by their superiors in the tendency to become identified with a particular job or hobby. Still more strictly applied, the vow of poverty applies also to impressions. Contemplatives are actually enjoined...
...vow of chastity is the easiest to fulfill for most religious. Hardest is the vow of obedience, designed to eliminate the most formidable barrier between the human and divine: the self...
...friendship and aims, denunciation for the "criminal gang of Chiang Kai-shek that was expelled from China"; he said that the U.S. "must withdraw" all its forces from the Formosa Strait before peace can prevail. But when it came to aligning Russia with Peking's unqualified vow to "liberate" Formosa, Molotov was conspicuously noncommital...
Blunt as Chou was, his renewed vow to "liberate" Formosa omitted one essential: when. The Communists were careful to leave themselves time. Peking is patient, Chou En-lai explained when Burma's Premier U Nu visited Peking last December, and expects to win Formosa not by force of arms but by subversion and defection...
...vow of eternal affection may be becoming only a memory, but that does not mean people are buying fewer cards. Insulting Valentines are selling in unprecedented numbers...