Word: communion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favorite authors are the two great Catholic mystics, Saint Teresa of Avila and Saint John of the Cross, and in his tiny, bare, blue-walled room in Rome's Via Ripetta he spends most of his time praying. During his travels he tries to keep himself always "in communion with...
...Supreme Court Justice Ernest D. Roper granted an injunction to 23 outraged parishioners of the Anglican Bishop of Bathurst, Rt. Rev. Arnold Lomas Wylde, restraining the bishop from introducing "Romish" practices into his diocese. Departing from the Book of Common Prayer, Bishop Wylde was accused of introducing into the Communion service such customs as ringing the Sanctus bell and making the sign of the cross. Commented Justice Roper: "It is quite deplorable that members of a Christian community have been unable to settle differences without recourse to litigation...
Instead of spending a tin-horn-paper-hat New Year's Eve, delegates held a midnight communion service-perhaps the largest in Methodist history-at which 10,900 tiny paper cups of grape juice and pieces of bread were distributed. Later boys & girls signed "Dedication Cards," on which they could check off any number of twelve "decisions for Christ" printed on the back. Sample: "I will choose my lifework, not for personal profit, but in accordance with . . . God's will...
...thesis throughout the world follows simple lines: society can survive only if each individual catches fire with the unselfish desire to live by standards of "absolute purity, absolute honesty, absolute unselfishness, and absolute love." Within the movement itself this involves "quiet times" in the Quaker manner providing for communion with God. To the world crisis this spells an attitude sweeping out at a nebulous "materialism" which is today's embodiment of the bad in human nature...
...fact of his memorial tablet being placed under the statue of the Wesleys [in Westminster Abbey], but for the sake of accuracy and for the credit of the Church of England, I would call to your attention the fact that Mr. Lyte was a clergyman of that communion, and not a Methodist, as stated in your article...