Word: communion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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America still contains hushed placesbeaches, mountains, snowy woods where a man on foot can find the old communion with nature. Now those oases have suddenly become vulnerable to a new breed of vehicles that are unbounded by roads or rules...
...Roman Catholic theologians last week issued a set of statements that marked a major step toward joining together what Luther put asunder just 453 years ago. The scholars urged that the Lutheran and Catholic churches recognize each other's authenticity and the validity of each other's Communion (Eucharist). The statement could well pave the way for widespread pulpit sharing and eventually even interCommunion between Lutherans and Catholics...
...priests were warned to wait for the recommendations to be acted on by their churches and resist the temptation to take "private action." One sort of action feared was taken only a month before the announcement, in Chicago, when a Lutheran pastor and two Catholic priests celebrated a Communion service together. Ecumenical officers of both churches labeled the service irregular...
...year's participation in the human potentials movement: "Just as it is hard to be sober when nobody else is, I found what thousands of other veterans of groups have found: that it is hard to re-enter 'back-home' reality after the intoxicating communion of a successful encounter or T group." Sometimes recognition that the world has not changed is more than the returning grouper's new sensory awareness can take ... in which case he either turns into a "T-group bum," endlessly circuiting the growth centers, or into a copout. An alarming number...
Repairing the damage done by Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn has been the subject of five years of discussions by the Joint Commission on Roman Catholic-Anglican Relations in the United States. On the international level, comparable deliberations are going on between the Vatican and the Anglican Commission. "Full communion and organic union" are the goals declared in a document released by the Episcopal Church Center in New York City last May 4, and Most Rev. Charles H. Helmsing, Catholic bishop of Kansas City St. Joseph, Mo., states emphatically: "We must bring about the union of the Anglican and Roman...