Word: communion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uplift since the musical version of Lost Horizon. Years hence, scholars may debate the significance of the fact that the wise elder in Shangri-La and the wise bird here are both called Chiang. Surely it is no mere coincidence. A homage, perhaps. Or maybe a moment of mystic communion, a stroke of magic enlightenment of the sort that Jonathan is always shoving his beak into...
This also reveals why Storey is a stage animal down to his bones and marrow. In any satisfactory theatrical experience, any single member of an audience feels a communion of spirit with those around him. That is how audience emotion builds so that the entire theater seems to erupt with laughter or stills to a rapt, absolute hush...
...little help from le grand Charles. "You can't keep De Gaulle under glass," he would declare whenever security got too tight. Fortunately for the French President, many of the assassination attempts sound as if they were concocted by Gordon Liddy. One zany plot called for poisoning the Communion Hosts at the village church in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, where De Gaulle attended Mass. The idea was discarded after the plotters realized that the first person to receive a Host would keel over dead and give the scheme away. And there was no way to guarantee that De Gaulle...
...would seem that, in all cases, one who can understand and assent to this would have the intellect to understand simple sin. It would not be unreasonable, there fore, that he should go to confession before Holy Communion...
Maybe Holy Communion is given to young persons too soon, but anyone who can worthily receive Holy Communion can worthily receive the sacrament of penance...