Word: communion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow, the Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate announced that a new church was about to join the Eastern Orthodox Communion: the Syrian Church of India. Claiming some 600,000 souls with 350 places of worship, the church is said to have been founded by St. Thomas the Apostle...
...become the Church" -here & now, with no more procrastinating "exploration of the possibilities of union." Since the Roman Catholic Church would consider reunion only on its own terms-a repentant Protestantism asking to be taken back into the fold-"first steps toward union must be taken by the Protestant communions . . . Let each communion in its own way discuss the fundamental question: Is union so desirable that we are resolved to win it? If the answer is affirmative, then bodies can appoint . . . representatives . . . qualified, above all, by a life of Christian spirit...
...When six or eight or ten such communions have taken such action, let the representatives meet and remain together long enough to know one another, long enough for another Pentecost. Let them draft a Plan of Union . . . Let the representatives be charged solemnly to keep their eyes upon the Christ rather than on the practices of a particular communion . .. Agreement is possible . . . Let the Methodists take the lead in a great affirmative decision, stating that we desire union...
First function of the Club under its new officials will be a Communion breakfast at the Hotel Continental this Sunday...
...view Christianity as a menace to civilization. Anthropologist Sir James Frazer (The Golden Bough) regretted that the "unselfish ideal" of Greek and Roman society, which subordinated the individual to the welfare of the state, was superseded by the "selfish and immoral doctrine" of "Oriental religions which inculcated the communion of the soul with God and its eternal salvation as the only objects worth living for. . . ." The result, said Frazer, was "a general disintegration of the body politic...