Handbook for Chaplains: Comfort My People

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Paulist Press, 2006 - Religion - 75 pages
This book is a concise source of information on eight different faith traditions. For each tradition, there is a brief outline of the principle beliefs, something about birth, the diet regulations, sickness, dying/death, and appropriate prayers that could be said with patients.

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Contents

Jehovahs Witnesses
30
Orthodox Christianity
44
Roman Catholicism
53
A Prayer for Servicemen
65
References
72
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Page 9 - Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Page 22 - WHERE the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into everwidening thought and action — Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country...
Page 8 - The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he restores my soul.
Page 10 - Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.
Page 10 - To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul; in you I trust, O my God. Do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me.
Page 38 - HEAR my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come unto thee: hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble. Incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
Page 57 - I lift up my eyes to the hills — where does my help come from? My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.
Page 11 - My eyes are ever toward the LORD, for he will pluck my feet out of the net. 16 Turn thou to me, and be gracious to me; for I am lonely and afflicted.
Page 53 - You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.

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