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...Please surround Bruce Stephens with your loving, healing light. Thank you. Thy will be done. [signed] Mantra." Nurse-practitioner Suzanne Crater taps the SEND panel on her screen, and Bruce Stephens, being prepped for coronary angioplasty in the next room, receives another Duke service: prayer. Crater has entered Stephens' name with the Virtual Jerusalem website, which inserts prayers in that city's Western Wall. She will also e-mail or phone it to Buddhist monks in Nepal, a Carmelite convent near Baltimore, an interdenominational Christian prayer center in Missouri and several other congregations--all of which will entrust it further...
Today's cardio-spiritual activity may not be standard, but it flows from Duke research. Krucoff and Crater have already finished the first part of Mantra, a pilot study to determine, among other things, whether prayer by strangers might influence the medical outcomes of 30 patients in Krucoff's cath lab at the Durham VA hospital. The project, whose symbol is a valentine-style heart with an angel hovering near one lobe, is too small to be statistically meaningful, but the results--the outcomes of those prayed over were 50% to 100% better than those of a control group--were...
...still, like a broken marionette, so much tape holding so many tubes. He dips his finger in the water and touches the baby's forehead. "I baptize you, Christopher, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." And they say a prayer...
...Peter's Basilica is opened for midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, 1999, it will usher in the Jubilee Year for Roman Catholics around the world. From that night until the feast of the Epiphany on Jan. 6, 2001, the Vatican has prepared a full calendar of solemn observances, including prayer vigils, ecumenical celebrations and several canonizations, over which the Pope will preside...
...that I don't deserve to be inscribed in the Book of Life. If my Hebrew school teacher was correct, that would mean that I'll die before the next Day of Repentance rolls around. With all due respect, Lord, you would be making a big mistake. In the prayer book, it is written that "prayer, repentance and righteousness will avert the severe decree." Well, I am righteous. One out of three...