Word: communion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...America (3,300,000). At last week's convention, delegates heard a report on recent theological discussions between the synod and the A.L.C.; the study concluded that enough doctrinal consensus existed to justify "a declaration of pulpit and altar fellowship" allowing an eventual exchange of pastors and communion privileges. The convention approved a statement noting that "separatism sins against love and divides the church," and urging synod churches to cooperate with other Christian groups in situations in which principles of the faith will not be compromised...
...common. Many of these have been celebrated by an ecumenical organization called Shalom, which every Friday re-enacts the Last Supper in the guise of a "Eucharistic happening" or a "love meal." Members of the group, which includes Protestants and Catholics, take turns consecrating the elements and distributing Communion...
...several Dutch theologians who had proposed to describe Christ's Real Presence in the bread and wine as transignification rather than transubstantiation. Last January, when Rome issued a warning against excesses in liturgical experiment, a Vatican spokesman explained that the directive had been aimed at certain informal Communion services which had taken place in The Netherlands. Currently, officials of the Congregation for Doctrine are studying a new Dutch catechism, approved by the hierarchy, that leaves open to question the literal truth of the Virgin birth, and tacitly approves artificial birth control...
Reformation leaders rejected the traditional opinion that confirmation was a Christ-founded sacrament of the same importance as baptism or Holy Communion; but many churches have preserved the ritual as a way of sanctifying religious instruction and symbolizing full entry into the church. In the Anglican Communion, where the customary age for receiving confirmation is twelve, the bishop first questions the youth on his knowledge of the faith, then lays on hands as a sign of the blessing of the Holy Spirit. Among Lutherans, the usual age is 13 or 14, and as with Episcopalians, confirmation is a requirement...
Naturally the result is flawless. Director Arthur Friedman gives us a Pooh that is moving, tender, light, and at times bursting with social import. Friedman establishes in the course of his entertainment an extraordinary communion with A.A.'s thought patterns; it is as if the man himself were reading his stories aloud...