Word: communion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...given 20th century humanity's ravenous hunger for literal certainty. Transubstantiation is well and good, but the tantalizing notion that the red spatters on linen are Christ's actual blood, rather than wine as blood, and that the imprint on cloth was left by the resurrected body, not a Communion wafer, is intoxicating...
...Another diversion: The religious ruckus brewing over whether the President, as a Baptist, should have taken communion back in Africa. New York?s Cardinal John O?Connor said it was wrong, ?however well-intentioned,? for a priest to give Clinton the sacrament. Any Christian can take part, replied the White House. But such a no-win debate took them about as far off-message as it was possible to be -- and the week has only just begun...
...socialized to view sex? Do we see it as parallel to human potential, associated with elation, communion, violence, intimacy, connection, empathy, indifference, compassion and cruelty? Or is sex thought of one-dimensionally, as an estranged use of another's body, a selfish act void of communication and reciprocation? Sex without discussion rarely allows for real consent, real sharing or, in other words, real intercourse...
...there was one very injured man." He took over the CPR and helped fit Kennedy with a cervical collar. The ski patrol brought him down the mountain on a toboggan, covered in a yellow blanket. The Rev. Lawrence Solan administered last rites at Aspen Valley hospital and presided over communion for 15 family members. Kennedy was pronounced dead at 5:50 p.m.; the official cause of death was "massive head and neck trauma," and deputy coroner Tom Walsh found no trace of drugs or alcohol in the body. Michael's estranged wife Victoria was spending the holiday in Vail with...
...balances a solid granite boulder, symbol of her mortal burdens. Round and round in syncopated steps, her open palms fluttering up and down in tireless supplication, she strives toward ecstasy. On and on she circles to the soft crooning of "Mariam, Mariam, Mariam," bending and rising in private communion; the heavy stone never wavers. Suddenly she halts and smiles with such sweetness that the Virgin must surely have answered her prayer...