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...sense of community is clearest in the events that surround cooking the dinner. Co-op residents must fend for themselves for breakfast and lunch, but dinner is a communal affair. Although all the co-ops are equipped with large common rooms complete with fireplaces and in some cases TV, the central gathering place for the residents is the kitchen, where co-opers begin drifting...
...Last year people were much more on their own. Someone would cook dinner and a lot of people wouldn't show up," says Browning. "Now we have people who are really attracted to communal living. For example, at the beginning meeting of this year we needed someone to clean out the pantry and five people volunteered...
...Vatican desires, or a few years later when they may have a better understanding of the nature of sin. A majority of U.S. parishes now offer face-to-face confession with a priest as an alternative to the austere, anonymous meeting in a booth. The Vatican allows a communal rite of "general absolution," but only in extraordinary circumstances (for example, on battlefields or in mission areas that lack priests...
...York City. A professor at Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary (1909-63), Kaplan was Orthodox by upbringing, but came to believe that Judaism is a synthesis of religion, race and culture. The practical effect of this view was to see the synagogue as a center for Jewish communal life that stressed the humanistic rather than the solely religious aspects of heritage. Kaplan's ideas were viewed as a divisive force by many Orthodox Jews, and in 1945 a panel of Orthodox rabbis issued a religious ban against his Reconstructionist Sabbath Prayer Book, which excised references to the Jews...
...program, run by a Christian pacifist group which advocates communal living, provided 1000 meals a day and took in about 20 homeless individuals, Hennessey explains...