Word: communion
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Though he loved the masses, Eastman did not neglect individuals. "To me lust is sacred." he writes, "sexual embraces nearer to a Holy Communion than a profane indulgence-a partaking, so to speak, of the blood and body of Nature." He partook generously. Leaving his wife and child, he moved in with a comely actress, Florence Deshon, whose temperament was much like his: she had once caused a near-riot in a theater by refusing to rise for the Star Spangled Banner. The affair was a stormy one; as Eastman torridly tells it, heaven-shattering passion alternated with earth-shaking...
...that in the future the word of God will be expressed by dialogue rather than monologue: instead of sermons, study-group discussions between ministers and laymen. Already, some ministers and priests are experimenting with unorthodox liturgies. In California, Episcopal, Presbyterian and Methodist ministers have congregated at Communion services in one another's homes. Some U.S. priests have presided at Last Supper-style Masses, following the forms used by 2nd century Christians...
...Shut Up. In the U.S., every major city has one or more experimental Inner City missions, many of them modeled on the interdenominational East Harlem Protestant Parish, where Holy Communion is often celebrated around a kitchen table in an apartment, and a team of laymen and clerics spend most of their waking hours combatting the apathy of public officialdom and a poverty-stricken community. The National Council of Churches is supporting an ambitious new program of Christian involvement called "the Delta Ministry." In 15 Mississippi counties, council staff workers and volunteers will be working with Negro organizations on voter registration...
Catholicism and to worship the "Real Presence" of Christ in the Eucharist, the bread and wine of Communion...
...drab brick building in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen, the stage is set for the American Place Theater production of Poet Robert Lowell's The Old Glory. Every Sunday at noon, with the addition of an altar, the same building is ready for the Holy Communion services of St. Clement's Episcopal Church, an off-Broadway mission parish serving the theater community. Running both shows is the Rev. Sidney Lanier, 41, a lively, loquacious priest who as president of the theater and vicar of St. Clement's is trying to bridge the gap between church...