How To Use Communion In A Sentence

He lived in close communion with nature/God.
Louise , Bethan and Sara have supported Laura Marling and have appeared at the excellent Communion label nights at the Notting Hill Arts Club. The F&M playlist
In some communions the clergy are the sole enunciators of Scripture.
But since he or his representative maintained for years that his proabortion rights stance is consistent with being a Catholic in good standing, with receiving Holy Communion, leading family prayers, and being visited by priest friends, I can't for the life of me figure out why I should see his doing such things on his deathbed as "signs of repentance" for the manifest grave sin of his proabortion rights stance. Sen. Ted Kennedy's right to a Catholic funeral
One of the most beautiful aspects of this rite is the special way in which this second Host is prepared for being brought to the Altar of Repose, before the communion of the celebrant. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 3 - The Mass of Holy Thursday and the Mandatum

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Not just settings of the ordinary, but the copious amounts of plainchant needed to cover all the propers (the introit, gradual, alleluia, offertory, communion and other sentences, all of which change according to the day and festival).
With great joy I received the announcement of Your Beatitude's election to the Patriarchal See of Alexandria for Copts and your request for Ecclesiastical Communion.
Actually it's called a monstrance and it contains a consecrated communion wafer (the big size that only priests get to eat), which by now has magically become the body and blood of Jesus Christ in the form of bread. (there was a time when people chopped each other's heads off over a disagreement about whether it contained any blood) "the abuse took place in the 1970s; the police were informed and acted" - Jack Valero RichardDawkins.net : The Latest Updates
I am in exclusive intimate spiritual communion with each of my devotees.
Its symbolism speaks to them of service, communion, mutual forgiveness, oneness, and recognition of the fact that their bodies are temples of the Spirit.
An updated report on the use of a common communion cup says people may have more to fear from people dipping the bread in the wine than from sipping from the same chalice used by other congregants.
I spent the entire night before my Communion in the bathroom hurling up my unworthiness.
For his opening move — in which "Oh" would have been a feasible if less canonic alternative (fully licensed by the dictionary) — is a line that negotiates in process between the vocal base line of expressive oralilty, on the near hand, and, at expression's farthest reach, the vocative asymptote of natural communion with inanimate energy. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
A communion table and other Christian artefacts have been removed from a hospital chapel to accommodate visitors of all faiths.
The bishop, as spiritual elder, officiates at baptisms, weddings, communions, funerals, ordinations, and membership meetings.
It would entail suspension from Eucharistic communion and taking one's seat in a special part of the church building reserved for penitents.
The inworking of this blessedness in the case of each believer proceeds solely and immediately from Christ himself, through the word of institution in which the redeeming and communion-forming love of Christ is presented and ever operates as a stimulus to piety. The Theology of Schleiermacher: A Condensed Presentation of His Chief Work, "The Christian Faith"
Congratulations to all the children from the parish who received their first Holy Communion.
But they can not perform Catholic sacramental duties, such as hearing confession, offering Communion or giving last rites.
However, I am willing to try a bit longer and harder; to refrain from drawing lines; to opt for circles instead; to say to those who are threatening to leave our church, that we still consider ourselves in communion with them, regardless of the letters dimissory that might get written or the legislation that might get passed.
Communion in the hand kept to a minimum, 2 Deacons alongside the Celebrant, no concelebration, birettas, supremely reverent atmosphere, and beautiful vestments and even more beautiful music exclusively polyphonic/chant. "Liturgical paradigms for the whole world..."
It is important that we go to confession and receive Holy Communion, attend Mass and visit the cemetery to gain a plenary indulgence for the Holy Souls.
A true Christian is a person who has come into living fellowship and communion with the Lord Jesus as a personal Saviour.
At the same time, diocesan leaders must work especially hard to make clear the differences between a Mass and a Communion service.
Apparently, he thought it looked a lot like the cups we use at church for communion.
They are harder still to interpret: what does a large attendance at Easter communion imply?
For five years, he lived a life of meditation, of deep communion with nature during excursions into the mountains, of contemplation, and of prayer.
What he aimed at was intercommunion rather than structural unity. Times, Sunday Times
He was a high churchman for whom the sacrament of holy communion was the supreme moment of worship.
Congratulations to all the children of the parish who received their first Holy Communion on Saturday.
None the less there can be great ceremony associated with a Low Church communion.
For Catholics, when we receive Holy Communion, it is a statement that we are in full communion with those people with whom we are taking Communion.
On Epiphany morning, the Lutheran-Episcopal full communion will be rendered official and celebrated at Washington's National Cathedral.
At the other end of the ‘globus intellectualis,’ nearest, not to earth and sense, but to heaven and God, is the personality of man, by which he holds communion with the unseen world. Theaetetus
Properly speaking, a superaltar is a small movable slab of stone, which is placed, as occasion for the celebration of the Holy Communion may require, upon some unconsecrated table or altar.
Although every baboon is a distinct, highly individuated self, each seems to exist simultaneously as self-in-community or even as self-in-communion.
Participation in Christ is an instance of communion that opens believers to proportionate participation in all of the dimensions we have discussed.
Settings of the Holy Communion and of canticles are rarely used, however, and the emphasis remains firmly congregational.
It recognizes the validity of all Evangelical orders, confirmed in the laying on of hands of the presbytery; and holds communion with, and exchanges pulpits with, all Evangelical Protestant Churches, and receives from them by letters dimissory, clergy and laity without reordination or reconfirmation, and dismisses to them, as to parishes in her own communion.
American Episcopalians maintain stubborn resistance to warnings by the world Anglican Communion that they have recklessly broken fellowship.
Saniotis takes us to one of Northern India's most famous Indo-Muslim shrines, a place where religious mendicants, known as faqir, gather to worship through mystical communion with saints.
Neil sipped slyly at the communion wine, thinking of the violent Norse heroines Trudi had described to him. RUSHING TO PARADISE
Or, if confession was allowed, the penitent was not allowed to receive Communion (at the time, the two sacraments were usually taken together).
Christian practice of Communion is becoming more diverse
Their imaginations are dominated by the ghosts of the past, in intimate communion with the shimmering world of the dead.
The deacon ascends to the altar with the burse in hand, and extends the corporal; at the same time, an acolyte places the Missal on the Gospel side, with a purification vessel and purificator for the purification of the priest's fingers after Communion. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 4.2 - Good Friday, The Adoration of the Cross and the Rite of the Presanctified
Home visits, communion to the sick, and even funeral ceremonies were turned into evangelistic meetings.
The Dissolution of Colleges Act suppressed thousands of chantries, and the Sacrament Act restored communion in both kinds.
Worse still, some practices which Sacrosanctum Concilium had never even contemplated were allowed into the Liturgy, like Mass “versus populum”, Holy Communion on the hand, altogether giving up on the Latin and Gregorian Chant in favour of the vernacular and songs and hymns without much space for God, and extension beyond any reasonable limits of the faculty to concelebrate at Holy Mass. Archbishop Ranjith's Foreword to "True Development of the Liturgy"
God knows how many sacrifices, prayers and sufferings have been offered to support me in my service to the church, how much benevolence and solicitude, how many signs of communion have surrounded me every day.
If any Chriftian went to any Corner of the Worlds how far fbever diftant, where there ware Chriftians; and i£ he was ihftru&ed with Commendatory Letters, by thofe from. whom he went* he was forthwith Admitted to Communion with thofe to whom he came. The Reasonableness of a Toleration: Enquir'd Into, Purely on Church ...
A handsome priest in a cream linen suit was moving among the men, distributing Communion wafers from a wooden chalice. DESPERADOES
Those churches in communion with Peter and the Orthodox are held to have a valid sacrament of orders.
As the stones at the site indicate, this is a sacred place, a place of communion between heaven and earth, and through his dream Jacob recognizes its powers.
It allows them to reach across the boundaries of geography and time to be in intimate communion with people they will never meet, but whom they hope to lead to God.
The ciborium is the bowl that contains the consecrated eucharistic Host prepared for Holy Communion. A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art
The rite of baptism is the sacramental entry into Christian life, and communion is a memorial of Christ's death and resurrection.
Another aspect of serving the Lord is to have communion with Him.
By prayer and meditation the pious Buddhist enters into living communion with the heavenly Lord.
His own Christian message, he once admitted, was that the self is best realised through communion with others.
As a matter of fact, this condensed expression condenses a series of positive features, rising above the controversial and dark facets of migration, beginning with the observation that "the passage from monocultural to multicultural societies can be a sign of the living presence of God in history and in the community of mankind, for it offers a providential opportunity for the fulfillment of God’s plan for a universal communion" n. Archive 2008-07-27
I have emphasized that person-to-person communion deepens our connection with God.
I have elsewhere spoken of a past sabbatarian strictness, and I have lately received an account of a strictness in observing the national fast-day, or day appointed for preparation in celebrating Holy Communion, which has in some measure passed away. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
The meal, like a ritual communion, had confirmed the curious, unspoken, mutual dependence which bound them.
It is an issue that threatens to tear asunder the world-wide Anglican Communion and it may even cause a split in the Church of Ireland, both North and South.
Then perhaps I might be urged to higher effort, hearing stories more pitiful than mine, tales of silent courage under ban of excommunion to shame me from the very thought of despair. Apologia Diffidentis
Holding a separate service just for confession and absolution before a service of communion is an old practice for Lutherans.
He persuaded the Catholic bishops to begin by publicly declaring that if the Donatists would take communion with them and unite, they would then invite their Donatist opposite numbers to share in the pastorate of each diocese.
He wishes now to turn away from such hard-edged, self-referential post-modern texts and get into a closer intimacy, a greater communion with his readers, the communion in which lies the main strength of the novel.
The girls were dressed in their immaculate white communion dresses and the boys wore appropriate suits.
In the past we've split over such things as the punctuation of the creeds, the orders of ministry and the nature of communion.
As part of her pastoral work with St James, she also carried out communion at three Clitheroe nursing homes, Castleford, Pendle Court and Clitheroe Nursing Home.
We were trespassing on the communion of their lunch, the remembrance of a thousand small-town diners, trailer-park kitchens and back-yard barbecues.
The author has a vision of an emerging worldwide Christian communion.
I know it instinctively, and often feel a sense of peace when people receive Communion.
Since most of these arrangements are written in the keys of C, D, G, F and B-flat, young pianists can be shown how to combine several pieces to create longer music needed for preludes, offertories and communion.
Despite the presence of more than five dozen priests, it was the laity and the celebrants who distributed Communion.
Only through genuine communion can the suffering and oppression of some become real to all.
A year earlier, Communion had been denied to two women present at a conciliar liturgy, which attracted much attention in the press.
He is presently in a state of excommunion, as a result of his public promotion of abortion. LifeSiteNews.com Headlines
I had recently begun catechism classes in preparation for my first communion.
His churches celebrate seven sacraments: baptism, chrismation (confirmation), Holy Communion, marriage, holy orders, reconciliation and anointing of the sick. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
The most notable visual effect of Laud's archiepiscopate was the removal of the communion tables from the body of the church to the east end, where they were placed on a dais and railed off.
And although that icon is not a full-faced depiction of the Baptist, as you will sometimes see in iconography, what you see is John the Baptist in relation to and communion with Christ and therefore opening himself to the communication of Christ through him to the beholder. Royal Academy of Arts Byzantium Lecture 'Icons and the Practice of Prayer'
By prayer and meditation the pious Buddhist enters into living communion with the heavenly Lord.
Therefore Peter first sat in that single cathedra, which is the first gift of the Church, to him succeeded Linus … to Damasus, Siricius, who is our contemporary, with whom the world together with us agree in one fellowship of communion by the interchange of letters. A Source Book for Ancient Church History
She stays up all night reading André Gide ( "Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion," she writes, "that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!"), uses the word aye unironically, and nearly wears the needle off her turntable playing Mozart records. ReadySteadyBlog
The Holy Communion is the sacrament of the unity of all Religious Reality
For five years, he lived a life of meditation, of deep communion with nature during excursions into the mountains, of contemplation, and of prayer.
The Communion-table is of wood, with a vulgar-looking attempt at superaltar and reredos.
But unlike some scares based on rumors or overcautiousness, the alarm among parishioners at a Long Island church this week is based on a confirmed finding: Someone who touched the communion wafers distributed at two packed services on Christmas Day was infected with hepatitis A. NYT > Home Page
It is this bodilessness in the Employer -- this very simple rudimentary whiffling communion the Employer has with his usually distinguished and accomplished Head Employee, which the Head Employee finds it hardest to bear. The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can mak
The bishop has given permission for the church to install an aumbr, a small safe where bread and wine consecrated by a priest during Holy Communion are stored, in a side chapel.
The document said that priests should only give Communion to Catholics.
Now the Spirit saith, Come, in the word; and the bride saith, Come, in prayer; and the result hereof is a sweet communion: but the perfection of bliss will be, when the King shall say, Come. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
When a priest prays over the Holy Communion bread and wine, he will ask God for blessings "by sending down your spirit upon them like the dewfall. American Catholics Prep For New Mass Translation
Some dive for spiritual communion with their inner self.
Closed communion to the local congregation is particularly Baptist, I think, and that strikes me as a different theological beast entirely (though I'm not especially educated on the matter) A bit more on Holy Communion and non-Catholic Christians
People with serial nonsacramental marriages are still free to marry in the church and enjoy the benefits of full communion.
To be a martyr is to witness to the truth we hold dear about our faith: the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit.
Considering how safe, and quiet, and easy, those are that are of a humble spirit, what communion they have with God and comfort in themselves, we will say, With the lowly is wisdom. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Hence, in the West, the aim of the Christian is justification, but in the East, it is rather communion with God and deification .
Nor have we examined adequately suffrages for the dead, the question of indulgences, the role of Mary in Christian piety, or the sins of denominationalism against the communion that is God's present gift.
But I return from this digression on the peril of idolatry, to which as well the theory as the practice of {244} the Roman Catholic Church exposes her members; and willingly repeat my disclaimer of any wish or intention whatever to fasten and filiate upon the Church of Rome the doctrines or the practice of individuals, or even of different sections of her communion. Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary
She prayed for Mam after Communion and at Benediction, saying for her Miss Dennison's pink rosary. THE GOLDEN LION
We must lay off the booze even during Holy Communion.
For twenty years they had baked a small loaf of bread for each child in the parish as a First Communion gift.
When we were at the noviciate, we observed, while serving his private Mass, that after the introit, the gradual, the offertory, the communion – all the sung pieces, in short – he would mark a pause, not found in the rubrics, and absorb himself in meditation. The Music Speaks Along with the Words
Christians believe in a complex God, three coeternal persons living a single enduring communion.
The constant practice of the churches in former ages, in all their meetings for advice and counsel, to consent unto some form of wholesome words, that might be a discriminating "tessera" [symbol] of their communion in doctrine, being used in prime antiquity, -- as is manifest in that ancient symbol commonly esteemed apostolical (of the chief heads whereof mention in the like summary is made in the very first writers among them), -- having also warrant from the word of God, and being of singular use to hold out unto all other churches of the world our apprehensions of the mind of God in the chief heads of religion, may be considered. The Sermons of John Owen
The day began with a short communion service followed by breakfast and a walk down the cross-country bridleway.
As the fact that, for more than a year, whoever approaches the Pope for Communion, have had to kneel down on the kneeler especially placed by the cerimonieri. Tornielli: The "Reform of the Reform" Proposals Approved by the Pope
As Greenblatt observes, ‘Purgatory, along with theological language of communion, deathbed confession, and anointing (aneling), while compatible with a Christian (and, specifically, a Catholic) call for remembrance, is utterly incompatible with a Senecan call for vengeance’.
Is it all right to chew the wafer or bread in communion or should I simply let it dissolve in my mouth as I was taught?
Communion chalices can cost between £500 and £10,000, with candlesticks worth in excess of £500.
What about politicians who make sacrilegious communions?
—STEVE CASE, CHAIRMAN, AMERICA ONLINE he root of the word communicate, the Latin communis, means to partake or share, the same as in words like community and communion. Zen Computer
In 1956 a consensus about the doctrine on the Lord's Supper with the Dutch Reformed Church was accepted, which made intercommunion possible between the Lutherans and the Reformed.
In the 19th century, the temperance and sanitation movements led many Protestants to replace wine and chalice with individual communion cups and grape juice.
Communion, the Priest that shall execute the holy ministry shall put upon him the vesture appointed for that ministration, that is to say The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
The young man went to Mass and received Communion every day and, after thanking God for saving his life, asked only that God give him peace of mind and the grace to be the best person he could be in His eyes.
Herein is the irreplaceable role of dialogue between the local community of Christians, and the communion of churches.
Near the end of the Mass Benedict walked down from the altar to distribute Holy Communion.
The most important figure today in the Anglican Communion, a worldwide federation of churches with some 75 million adherents, is probably a man few people in the West know anything about: Archbishop Peter Jasper Akinola, of Nigeria. Defender of the Faith
This document still serves as a primary point of reference for Anglican dialogue with other Christian communions.
Even the increasingly rare eremite, the desert dweller, regularly leaves his bleak and rugged cave, trekking to the monastic enclave or his neighbor's chapel for the purpose of liturgical worship and communion. Scott Cairns: The Christian and the Community: A Relationship in God's Image
This exactly mirrors Catholic teaching: Ministers of Holy Communion are only to deny the Sacrament to non-Catholics or Catholics living in manifest (public) grave sin. A bit more on Holy Communion and non-Catholic Christians
Perhaps this is to be expected with an issue in which all ecclesial communions have such pronounced self-interests in justifying their own ecclesial orders.
The boxiness of museums also suggests coffins, crypts, and mausoleums; museums are places of mourning as well as ecstatic communion.
This relation is not one of appropriation, possession, or passive representation of knowledge, but of communion and co-creative participation.
However, I would agree that his tendency to sometimes overemphasize sexuality within TOB (as presented by his critics) obscures the proper emphasis of communion with God as the fundamental element of human existence. David L. Schindler criticizes Christopher West's work with TOTB
The hand-crafted wooden pews and pulpits, the hanging lamps and church bells, and the silver communion chalices and patens brought the material glory of Christianity home to the worshipers in the wilderness.
We close with a communion service; youth serve the older members the bread and wine, saying a special blessing and benediction upon their new friends.
The sheer joy of that intimate communion with nature; the contented peace we discover on the banks of running waters - that's what it's really all about.
Think what is involved - personal communication and communion with the living God.
N. in prouincia Paduana decimo die, prout facti sibi fuir reuelatio, accepta communione, ipsoque ad Deum disponente, etiam corpore existens incolumis in Domino foeliciter requieuit: Cuius sacer obitus Domino summo Pontifici praefato sub manu Notarij publici transmittitur; qui sic scribet. The Journal of Friar Odoric
Subjectively, this manifests itself in the perception that the "feelings" elicited by art and music are in fact the ACTUAL feelings the artist felt, somehow, dizzyingly 'captured' by the work, immortalized, held in 'static communion' by the canvas, or musical recording, or camera... and now able to enrapture and enchant us indefinitely. Jason Silva: On Creativity, Marijuana and "a Butterfly Effect in Thought"
Like most children, Trevor was used to coming to communion and was curious about the bread and wine being given to others but not to him.
All housebound parishioners will be able to receive Holy Communion on Christmas Day from the Eucharistic Ministers.
With lessons and carols, communion and evensong, the person at the centre of these religious services will be working long hours delivering the Christmas message.
As leader of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop faced growing demands on his time from Anglican churches abroad.
At the siege of Salerno, a Mussulman chief spread his couch on the communion table, and on that altar sacrificed each night the virginity of a Christian nun.
Item si aliquam itta infirmari contigerit quod ad locum consuetum communioni uenire non possit. si oporteat eam communicari: sacerdos ... corpus chrisi deferens. reuerenter precedentibus eum duabus sororibus cum cereis, et una cum aqua benedicta. et alia campanellam deferente: associantibus nihilominus aliqubus de maturioribus sororibus ad infirmariam uadat. et infirmam communicet. prout in ordinario continetur. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
One of the facts which impresses itself on the mind of a minister of another communion is the extraordinary solidarity and continuousness in movement and in outlook of that great and splendid communion whose history is inwrought with so much that is best in the history of our people, I mean the Church of England. The Imperial Significance of Games
For some of us - call us introverts if you like, misanthropes if you must - Mass is a precious hour of communion with God amidst relative calm (especially if your parish is fortunate enough to have a cry room).
Bishops are, both personally and collegially, at the service of communion.
It is rather that the one catholic Church exists in the communion among the local churches.
Videtur ergo Marcellus sub finem vitae aliquid peccasse, quod Athanasium ab ejus communione discedere cogeret: et cum jamdudum a tota fere oriente damnatus esset, amissa Athanasii communione, quae unicum fere illius refugium erat, desertus ab omnibus videri debuit, nec ei nova ignominia notato prodesse poterat concessa olim a Romana Ecclesia communio. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
That confession was required before Communion is evident from the penitential ascribed to St. Columbanus, which orders (can. xxx) "that confessions be given with all diligence, especially concerning commotions of the mind, before going to Mass, lest perchance any one approach the altar unworthily, that is, if he have not a clean heart. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
A new understanding of Anglican identity is needed if we are to remain in communion across the colors and cultures, nations and nationalities that Anglicanism now embodies.
During those quiet days, I had time to reflect on the act of receiving Communion.
Christianity presumes that we are creatures made in the image and likeness of God, destined for communion with God.
He is, he insisted, Anglican and part of the ecclesial communion called Anglicanism.
Communion and oblivion, sex and death, the mystery can be revealed - but it can be revealed only as totally inexplicable.
I had limited communion with them.
For a while, time stops, and there's nothing important enough to intrude upon an old man's communion with the sun.
The reluctance of Marthe Hardelot to leave her home when the Germans invade is conveyed not in terms of panic but in terms of possessions: "her linen cupboard, the fine sheets from Flanders, embroidered by nuns in Bruges, her kitchenware—copper pans, candlesticks, sparling bowls—and the photos of Aunt Adèle at her First Communion, and Uncle Jules ten months old, naked on a pillow. A Supremely Disabused Writer
Hence, in the West, the aim of the Christian is justification, but in the East, it is rather communion with God and deification .
To go to communion worthily gives God great glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop-pail, give him glory too. A not so stunning conclusion
In the shameful troubles excited by the refusal of sacraments, the simple presidial of Nantes condemned the bishop of that city to pay a fine of six thousand francs for having refused the communion to those who demanded it. A Philosophical Dictionary
The recipient must be an American boy or girl celebrating a religious rite: a first communion, confirmation, bar or bat mitzvah.
This and the responsibility of each local church for the communion of the churches also need to be borne in mind when local churches are making decisions.
One reason I'm grateful for bishops is that, if it were left up to laypeople, there would be nobody in the whole length and breadth of the Catholic communion who was not excommunicate.
For twenty years they had baked a small loaf of bread for each child in the parish as a First Communion gift.
These things being grievous to those concerned, as we are, though perhaps those at quiet are too little concerned in the matter, therefore when I could no longer forbear, I thought good to present to public view the warrantableness of our holy communion, and the unreasonableness of their seeking to break us to pieces. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
This is said to block the way to true communion with the spiritual force.
Cardinal Connell antagonised Anglicans on several occasions with his remarks about intercommunion and the Church of Ireland, but relationships are likely to improve with Martin at the helm.
The epiclesis reminds us that communion is not a private act between an individual Christian and God.
Today, the major Christian communions largely support democracy, even while necessarily retaining the right to criticize democratic decisions in the name of religious truth claims.
The intensity and extremity of this expansion of experience is paralleled by the deepening of communion, by which particularity and individuation are shared with others.
Thus earnestly does a gracious soul desire communion with God, thus impatient is it in the want of that communion, so impossible does it find it to be satisfied with any thing short of that communion, and so insatiable is it in taking the pleasures of that communion when the opportunity of it returns, still thirsting after the full enjoyment of him in the heavenly kingdom. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
It also organises an annual book fair, evening courses for parents, and refreshments after Communion and Confirmation.
We have a very clear position on the question of Catholics receiving Communion in churches other than Catholic churches.
This is a far cry from Corbon's more simplistic description of the Eucharistic canon as prelude, liturgy of the word, anaphora, communion, and finale.
The church of Christ is present in them, and they possess a certain imperfect communion with the Catholic Church.
Even in the midst of apparent havoc, there was a place in which safety, healing, and communion could be celebrated and a doxology raised.
Don't forget we accept orders for all special occasions (communions, birthdays, confirmations and stations).
On the whole there is a sincerity and heartiness of interest in his long account of this sect, which persuades one that he was moved by a genuine sympathy with a religion that could enjoin the humane and peaceful and spiritual precepts of Christ, while putting away baptism, ceremonial communion, and hierophantic orders. Voltaire
Wendell Berry in his anthology of essays, Bringing It to the Table, talks about the “communion between farmer as husband and the well-husbanded farm.” Archive 2010-08-01
The general communion customary on holy-thursday is prescribed by the English bishop Walter in the 10th century, in the capitulary of Theodulph of Orleans, and by all ancient pontificals and missals, according to Martene T. 3, p. 98. The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome
Properly understood, then, the desire by unbaptized persons to receive communion may not be well served by the rush to immediate gratification.
I think that the motivation of all of this development work in Africa, it's about a particular vision of a globally just society; it's about a sense of profound responsibility for each other, and the unity of the Church in that context doesn't mean papering over the cracks in an institution just so people hang on to their jobs and their structures, it means keeping open the networks, the channels that exist between different parts of the Communion so that this kind of resourcing can go on. Reflections on Angola, Africa and the Communion
She appeared as usual to play the organ at the communion service, wearing her navy Viyella dress. Presumption of Death
I returned the communion vessels because, in a newspaper interview I read, you expressed your disapprobation of that particular theft. LION IN THE VALLEY
Sometimes in conversation, that verbal dance of expressive/manipulative articulations, of sympathic communion and antipathic combat, of connective language in its intricate dynamics, is more of a tango than a waltz. posted by Hal Duncan | 7: 14 AM Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (3)
Her ordination will allow her to officiate at weddings, baptisms, communions and funerals and is taking place on June 27 at 10 am.
Every human being is created in the image of God, so all human relationships are called to be a reflection of God's life of communion as trinity.
Jackson's versions of happy endings often entail a paradisal communion of human and animal.
Each element of the furniture is exemplary, and some items such as the casket for communion wafers (a gold box in the side chapel) are quite exquisite.
On closer examination archaeologists from Sheffield University discovered it was the skeleton of a priest who had been buried holding a chalice and paten - vessels used for Holy Communion.
One of the things that stuck with me from CCD was this idea of being "sinless" before taking communion. One Bright Star (1B*) Reignited
Six boys received their First Communion in the Sacred Heart Church last Sunday.
Is it possible to see a misguided trajectory in certain of the developments, e.g., the silent recitation of the Canon of the Mass, infrequency of reception of holy communion, the retention of Latin? Critiquing the critics
Their life is hard physically but easy mentally for theirs is an easy communion with their flocks and their kinsmen.
Their use, for the begetting and continuing communion between God and us, with the concomitancy of precepts, places them in the capacity of a covenant. The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
Other items stolen from the Holy Trinity Anglican Church included candlesticks, vases, antique tables, a communion vessel and a chalice.
The author has a vision of an emerging worldwide Christian communion.
It was like offering a communion wafer to a starving man: it served the minimal purpose but missed the point entirely. THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
I am more suspicious of them than I am of the presence of losers, sinners, factory rejects, hypocrites and slimeballs in the Catholic communion.
His call in a sermon in Leeds came on the 10th anniversary of the Act, as the campaign to allow women to be consecrated as bishops has reignited the controversy in the Anglican communion.

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