Word: worshiping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handsome, red brick, well-landscaped Monastery of the Holy Cross, across the Hudson from Hyde Park. There the monks rise at 5:25 each morning with the words: "Thanks be to God." Four hours of their day are spent in meditation, prayer and the seven tradi tional offices of worship (Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers and Com pline), in which psalms are sung in ancient plain song. During the rest of the day the monks clean house, mow lawns, cultivate their gardens, collect their laundry and mail (in a 1941 station wagon), study in a well-stocked library, swim...
...versation-less meals in the peaceful refec tory they listen to reading selected "to teach the heart [and] the intellect." At day's end (8:30 p.m.), with the words, "the Divine help remain with us always, Amen," they begin the Great Silence which (except for words of worship) lasts until after breakfast the next morning...
...four political parties had forged the Anti-Fascist Democratic Union. The new German popular front had agreed on a five-point program: 1) cleansing Germany of Hitlerite remnants; 2) speedy reconstruction to provide work, bread, shelter and clothes; 3) a democratic state; 4) freedom of thought and worship; 5) recognition of Germany's reparation debts...
Through two bronze sliding doors, embossed with medallions and flowers, transatlantic commuters once strolled into the super-imperial banquet room of the luxury liner Normandie. Through these same doors henceforth the congregation of Brooklyn's Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Lebanon will pass in to worship...
...religion in Eng land has fallen so low that bold, modern methods (i.e., extensive use of radio, cinema, stage, television, the press) should be tried to revive it. Of the British people the commission said: "We are called to a far harder task than to evangelize heathen, who do worship (however ignorantly) a power higher than themselves. In England the Church has to present the Christian gospel to multitudes in every section of society who believe in nothing, who have lost . . . the spiritual dimension, and for whom life has no ultimate meaning. . . . Only a small percentage of the nation today...