Word: communion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in Wittenberg, the Reformation had begun. Many priests, monks and nuns were leaving the cloister and getting married. Mass was celebrated in plain clothes, and parts of it recited in German. The laity took the cup of Communion to its own lips, and it smashed the images of the saints...
...church's congregation knew that their pastor's words were aimed at three members who belonged to a Masonic lodge in nearby Hagersville. To the three Masons, Pastor Bauer gave an ultimatum: give up your lodge affiliation or leave the church. He refused to let them take Communion. He had, he claimed, the full backing of his twelve councilmen...
...Masons refused to drop their lodge membership. Said one: "Mr. Bauer is 150 years behind the times . . . He'll take our money but he won't give us Communion or bury us." Retorted the pastor: "If a Mason wanted a lodge burial, I would refuse to officiate." A church council decided to put the issue to a vote...
...Communist record for their parents. "Of course Catholics should refuse to sleep while the enemy is restlessly active. Catholics again should resolutely refuse to take the bromides offered by left-wing journalists. But the Soviet should not become an obsession. It should be possible just occasionally to have a Communion breakfast without Communism on the menu...
Band manager Paul A. Lucey '51 said last night that this will be the first time the group has performed for the Police Department. In previous years, the Fire Department band has played for Police Department Communion Breakfasts, presumably during a lull in crimes and fires...