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...Church of the Holy Spirit in Salinas, Calif., one Sunday last month, Mrs. Phyllis Edwards, 48, walked to the altar to minister at 8 o'clock Holy Communion. Dressed in a deaconess' dark blue, nunlike robes surmounted by a deacon's stole, Mrs. Edwards calmly intoned the prayers and then distributed the bread and wine of Communion, which had been consecrated by the church's rector at a previous service...
...parishioners thereupon became the first Episcopalians in the U.S. to receive communion from a woman. The service took place - where else? - in the diocese of California's experiment-loving Bishop James A. Pike, who is de termined to ordain Mrs. Edwards to the diaconate. A widow with four chil dren, she is now one of about 70 active Episcopal deaconesses authorized by the church to perform social work and teach the catechism...
...Serious Division." Unlike male deacons, for whom the office is normally a one-year prelude to ordination as a priest, deaconesses have not been al lowed to distribute Communion or administer sacraments to the sick. Pike believes that he can change this rule because of a word-switch in canon law made by the church's General Convention last year; women now are "ordered" deaconesses by a bishop, instead of "appointed." The convention also dropped the canonical provision that deaconesses must be single or widowed, but Mrs. Edwards says, "I have no desire to marry again...
...Holy Communion in St. Margaret's, the House of Commons' parish church, the Archbishop of Canterbury intoned, "We commend to God Winston Spencer Churchill as he approaches death." A private message from the Pope was delivered by Monsignor Cardinale, the apostolic delegate to Britain. There were special prayers at Harrow, his old school, and at Castle Rising, near Sandringham. where the Queen and members of the royal family attended church...
...American Church, says Sargent, is "a local, ecumenical church"-Communion is open to all, and there are no denominational requirements for membership-and as such has a unique value to Christianity. "Every year," he proudly says, "hundreds of persons whose lives have been touched in some way by this church return to the U.S. Usually they return to their own denominations, but with a difference. They bring with them a new willingness to express in new ways our eternal unity in Christ...