Word: communion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make sure, the Burtons are playing as bawdy a Bard as they can conceive. In the single entendre wedding scene, for example, Burton gobbles up Communion bread like a starving ragamuffin, cuffs the astonished priest, and fumbles grossly through his filthy clothes till at last he finds the wedding ring in his codpiece...
...tell whether a new church is Catholic or Protestant. Abandoning baroque altars and ornate candelabra, modern Catholic churches are all but statueless and feature bare, tablelike altars; at the same time, many Protestant ministers have come to recognize the validity of more ceremony in worship, and are celebrating Communion every Sunday with Eucharistic vestments, candles, and even incense. Thanks to changes inspired by the Second Vatican Council, the Roman Catholic Mass in the vernacular features such venerable Protestant institutions as longer sermons, lay readers, and full-throated congregational singing...
...Common Lectionary. This convergent evolution of worship seems likely to continue. The Church of England will soon introduce an experimental order of Communion that is structurally closer to the Catholic Mass than existing forms, and includes a translation of the Lord's Prayer identical to the one recited by Catholics. Looking ahead, liturgists hope that eventually Catholics and Protestants will share a common lectionary and thus hear the same selections from Scripture on the same Sundays throughout the year...
...able to finish the journey in accordance with his divine will." Going on 50 years in the priesthood, New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, 76, felt tired as well. "I don't know if I can keep going on much longer," he said at a Catholic charities communion breakfast. But then he laughed: "I will keep going as long as I can, even if I need a derrick...
...pfner, a committee of moral theologians in the archdiocese of Munich drew up a message of guidance for marriage lecturers on the birth-control problem. Their recommendation was that couples who practice contraception "not lightly and habitually but rather as a regrettable emergency solution" could receive Holy Communion...