Word: communion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church (630,000), the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church (36,000) and the American Evangelical Lutheran Church (25,000)-will simultaneously hold their final conventions as separate bodies. Next morning, the 6,000 delegates and visitors will go back to Cobo Hall for the first Holy Communion service as mem bers of the nation's newest and largest Lutheran body: the Lutheran Church in America. "Unless and until Lutherans are sitting on the same side of the table in interdenominational conversations," says Dr. Malvin Lundeen, who is the chairman of the unity commission that brought the four...
...declaration of principle on the role of laymen in the church, and restoration to the laity of the use of the chalice at Holy Communion on certain occasions...
...suddenly, almost theatrically apparent: ten narrow stained-glass windows, 70 ft. high, in the jogs of the saw-toothed walls. Says Spence: "These windows are like a rainbow of promise, but it is right that a worshiper should not be able to see them until he has made his Communion at the altar and turned back in joy. Then God is revealed...
...sackcloth robe worn over a hairshirt, she sits alone in her stone-floored cell. Her food is bread, water, an occasional cooked vegetable. Through a small grilled window she may look into a chapel, and down a narrow passageway there is another barred window where she takes her daily communion. In the cell is a straight chair, a table, a board that serves as her bed and a small washroom with a cold shower. Not since she closed the door behind her 16 years ago has she ever left this confined area...
...Nazarena practices a degree of asceticism that is extraordinary even for her order. She is one of the few nuns in the world with ecclesiastical permission to attempt the hermitlike life known as reclusion. Her only contacts with the outside world are with the priest who daily gives her communion and with the convent abbess who visits her from time to time. This week Sister Nazarena and her sister nuns are busy cutting palm leaves for the Vatican's Palm Sunday. It is a time of "extra strict silence...