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...recall the first time I went, as an altar boy, into the sacristy where the priest vested himself. I felt as if I were entering the most sacred place on Earth. The smell of incense, the touch of candle wax, the overly starched cotton of my surplice as I knelt before the sacred mystery of the Eucharist: in the words of the poet Philip Larkin, "a serious house on serious earth" this was, a refuge and a beacon, a rebuke to the chatter and trivia and destabilizing noise of the world outside and beyond. And the knowledge that these rituals...
...crumple low to pass through the squat Gate of Humility, a large door reduced to a tiny entryway during the time of the Turkish Empire to prevent looters from driving carts inside the church to carry off their booty. Some of the men waved and cheered a victory; others knelt to pray. A man with bullet wounds came out on a stretcher. All passed through metal detectors. U.S. embassy officials later found more than 90 rifles and other guns left behind, and Israeli troops said they found 40 explosive devices. From the rooftops around the adjoining Manger Square, relatives called...
...flag bearing Marines before me commenced to fold. Twelve hands worked in silent unison, tucking the flag tightly in on itself until it had been properly folded into a bunched package of star-spangled gratitude. It was given to an officer who held it between his white-gloved hands, knelt before my grandmother, and presented it to her. I could not hear most of what he whispered to her but the strong breezes of that day did carry three words over to me: thank, you and nation...
Still, few would argue with the feeling of Rabbi Steven Leder of Los Angeles' huge Wilshire Boulevard Temple that since the terror "the intensity of the [religious] experience has heightened." On Sept. 22, as Attorney General John Ashcroft warned that Boston might be attacked next, 15,000 Christians knelt on the asphalt of City Hall Plaza in a display of Christian repentance. Evangelist Franklin Graham thinks the mood will hold. "There is a conflict in front of us," he says. "And that is going to keep the focus on the spiritual...
...four men she hardly knew, down the dirt tracks in a 1,000-hectare plantation of towering oil palms. They brought her to this spot at the base of one palm where a crude scarlet "X" slashed into the bark of the trunk is still visible. And here she knelt for the ceremony, only to feel, instead of the garland of flowers she had been expecting, the bite of a nylon rope cut into her neck...