Word: communion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time two weeks ago, he was well aware that he risked the wrath of his church. So be it. His successor, Bishop C. Kilmer Myers, requested that his clergy not allow Pike to perform any priestly functions in the diocese. Taking up the gauntlet, Pike responded by celebrating Holy Communion at St. Aidan's Church in San Francisco on Christmas Eve. And when he introduced his 30-year-old bride, the congregation burst into applause. Said Pike: "Bishop Myers has no canonical authority to suspend me. I'm as much a member of the diocese...
...prayed to his congregation, as witness the following quote from the original confessions: "Knowing the influence I had obtained over the minds of my fellow servants (not by means of conjuring and such like tricks--for to them I always spoke of such things with contempt), but by the communion of the Spirit whose revelations I often communicated to them and they believed and said my wisdom came from...
...Exalt ye citizens of the secular state, for the Roman Catholic Bishops of the U.S., supposedly in communion with the See of Peter, have essentially repudiated the legitimate teachings of the Roman Pontiff [Nov. 22]. Who knows, these enlightened individuals may next choose to elect their own "assistant Pope" who somehow will share the teaching authority of the Pontiff. And someday the Church of Rome may be declared to be nothing more than a schismatic sect...
...fears, I am fearful! I fear the loss of grace (which I do believe in), not because I use birth control but because the church denies me the grace-giving sacraments. I miss Communion most of all, and I cry when my daughters receive the sacrament. Why do I not receive Communion? I suppose it's because I cannot fully tear myself from the early years of teaching. I don't feel that I am wrong, but where will I find absolution if my own church says I am wrong...
...fellow actors perform mostly in New York City slums where, since receiving a grant two years ago, they run workshops in which ghetto children can make puppets. Before each performance, the company tears fresh loaves of pumpernickel into bits and passes them through the audience-an artistic communion that both engages the viewers' participation and sets the group's humanistic tone. "All of our shows are for good and against evil," insists Schumann. They are played in stark terms. In Reiteration, the actors wear grotesque masks; one wears a skull, another a gas mask, others are in oriental...