Word: communion
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...estimated 60 million Orthodox Christians. The writer's concern with the fate of the church is, in fact, recent. Although he was baptized in childhood, his faith scarcely survived the eleven years of prison and exile he endured under Stalin. A year ago, however, Solzhenitsyn received first communion in the Russian Orthodox Church...
...women get as routine. It is like being gang-banged in public. But it has been worth it because of something great out there, not just the pain and anger. Women are learning to respect and love themselves and each other, and there is a lot of joy and communion in knowing them...
...will begin to happen. The extraordinary thing. The thing they have really come for, the speeches aside. The thing the speeches generate, but which takes on a life of its own. For as she sits and listens, she begins to feel the flickers and currents of a mass communion, a rising sense of excitement that she imagines parallels what one feels at a revival meeting. She doesn't get up and cry "Right On!" (which she suspects is already passé) like the girl down front, she doesn't hop up and shout "Yes, sister...
...after the meeting has dispersed, after the ball is over, and the sense of excitement and communion begins to dim, she climbs into her car, station wagon, Land Rover, bus, taxi-and goes home. And it hits her. She arrives home to pay the sitter or what-have-you, to take over the children, to keel the pot like greasy Joan, to put the kettle on like Polly, to take up the reins of her existence. Only -something is wrong...
Edmund Sixtus Muskie (Muskie of Maine! trumpeted the ads and leaflets) was seated in the first pew. He quietly got up, went up to the Communion rail and returned to his seat before anybody moved...