Word: communion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contended by some that the veneration of saints is a noble and excellent means for bringing the Christian nearer to that communion of saints towards which Christendom presses. By others, beatification is denounced as a "survival of the pagan apotheosis of the departed" and as heretical, since there is only One who is holy, even God. Here tradition and temperament divide...
...central theme of the Conference was the "Holy Eucharist and Atone- ment" and special attention was given to the "spiritual advantages of frequent communion in combating materialism." The American section, headed by Bishop J. Henry Tihen of Denver, received with delight.the decision to hold the next Congress in Chicago, in 1925. The newly-created Cardinal George Mundelein, from his famed red-brick residence, immediately designated the Sunday preceding the next Congress as general Communion Sunday in the archdiocese of Chicago...
...Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, William Montgomery Brown received 40 years ago his first holy communion, was ordained a priest of God, was consecrated a Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the U. S. In the same dimly sacred house Bishop Brown, a beautiful old man, responded last week to the Apostles' Creed, saying simply: "I believe." On the following day he was judged by seven other Bishops to be a heretic. Sentence, soon to follow, will cut him off from the priesthood and forbid him to wear the garments of the Lord, which he has worn so very long...
...that we are Catholic and not Protestant." (Cheers. Clapping.) Just as the Martian was deciding that the Protestant Episcopal Church was not Protestant, he was bounced to Boston. He would have found in session, The Church Congress, the proceedings of which were, by comparison, tame. Bishop Lawrence celebrated Holy Communion. Incense was not perceptible. Dr. Kirsopp Lake, of Harvard, said: "Bible and Church have frequently been wrong and their complete consent will prove in the end to have less power than truth and facts, for these alone are valid, authentic and infallible." No one threw bricks at him. Miracles, divorce...
...communion service - otherwise known as the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper-was conducted by radio for the first time in history. The service was broadcast from the West End Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, through WJZ, after a sermon by the British evangelist, G. Campbell Morgan. The elements, bread and wine, were blessed by the pastor, Edwin Keigwin.† The invisible audience did not partake until all had been served, so that all present in the church might partake simultaneously with those who served themselves bread and wine at home. While the elements were passed, the organ was audibly played...