Word: prayerful
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...enjoys one last mass hug and finally leaves its makeshift chapel--room 133 of Patrick Henry High School. Yes, a public high school. If you are between ages 25 and 45, your school days were not like this. In 1963 the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling banning compulsory prayer in public schools. After that, any worship on school premises, let alone a prayer club, was widely understood as forbidden. But for the past few years, thanks to a subsequent court case, such groups not only have been legal but have become legion...
...hard shroudies to shore up their hope that their cause is not lost. Faith is ratcheting up the scrutiny on science to unheard-of levels, and the mystified scientists, who considered the case essentially closed, find themselves challenged to make it so airtight that not even a prayer can slip...
When fighting erupts, Brother Bill has his routine down pat. From his Evanston home, it's a 35-min. drive to Cabrini. En route, he pulls on his robe and begins prayer. Upon arriving, he walks briskly to the scene, where the shooting has usually already begun. His pale blue robe aflutter, he stands in the center of gang gunfire. He says he can hear the crack of guns from snipers in the buildings as well as see shooters running on the ground or ducking in and out of entryways. But thoughts of his safety never cross his mind...
...monks' day begins at 4 a.m., when bells peal to announce the Vigils, the first of eight daily communal prayer, meditation, Mass and choir sessions--each bathed in tranquil chanting. Besides leading a contemplative life of reading and prayer, the monks cultivate lavender, oranges, wine and bees. They also make and sell a liqueur called Lerina, which some pilgrims use to heighten the spiritual experience...
...half-understood threats, never sure what ground is solid. The horror here is peeked at slantwise, through a girl's splayed fingers. What appears to be true is that Oyster bound dozens of young believers into a cult whose elements included an underground life of opal mining, ecstatic prayer and patriarchal sex. And that in the end Oyster gratified his inflamed ego with mass suicide. The author's story, of course, is a rough match with remembered headlines--of Waco, of Heaven's Gate and the rest. But the mad Oyster, dead before the narrative begins, and the hate-filled...