Word: communion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usually a public ritual at which penitents openly disclaimed serious wrongdoings before the assembled congregation. Not until 1215 was confession to a priest made the norm for the church, by the Fourth Lateran Council. According to canon law, Catholics must confess any mortal (serious) sins before receiving Holy Communion, and as a rule they are expected to do so at least once a year...
Arthur Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, will speak at 8 p.m. tonight in Sanders Theatre. He is Primate of all England and titular head of the 42 million member Anglican Communion...
...sure of victory. He threw two wild pitches. Another run scored. We leaned against each other, laughing, yelling, clapping strangers on the back and shoulders, Killebrew made an error. The fifth run came home, and we were close to our team, close to each other in this communion service...
...that he will not be allowed to vote. "I don't care about that," he said airily, "because we don't decide many things around here by a ingle vote." >Tried out, before a massive congregation of 6,000 Episcopalians, an experimental, simplified new rite of Holy Communion that closely approximates the worship services of early Christian imes...
...drastic a step, instead named the committee of eleven clerics and laymen to advise the church's presiding bishop on the overall problem of freedom of inquiry within the church. It was headed by Bishop Stephen F. Bayne, Jr., 59, energetic former executive secretary of the Anglican Communion, presently director of the church's overseas department, who has long been known for his outspoken, often unorthodox ways...