Word: communion
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...BLOOD KNOT. Two half brothers-joined in kinship, disjunctively opposite in color-prey on each other's weaknesses, but stay together in a communion of spirit that is full of laughter, envy, good intent and deep fears...
...obviously gets along with horses lots better than with people. He has no use for sportswriters ("They're always misquoting me"), racing officials ("They have too much power"), or even his fellow jockeys ("None of them are my friends"). But with horses, Jockey Hartack, 31, shares a mystical communion. Nobody has ever won so many stakes (43) or so much money ($3,000,000) in a single season. And when it comes to the biggest race of all, the Kentucky Derby, Hartack is in a class by himself: going into last week's 90th Derby, he had three...
Characteristically, he introduced a homely personal touch-a letter from Cathy May Baker, 7, of Park Forest, Ill. She had written weeks before to tell the President that her grandmother wanted to take a train from New York to see Cathy's first Holy Communion, and would President Johnson "please keep the railroads running so that she can come to see me." Full of happy-ending sentiment, Lyndon looked into the cameras and said, "So Cathy's grandmother can now go to see her, and all my fellow Americans can be proud that the railroad management...
...their way of worship is the Mass rather than the lengthy Divine Liturgies of the East. The Western Rite missal has been purged of Roman "heresies," such as supererogation, the belief that man can acquire grace through the merits of saints as well as through Christ's redemption. Communion is given in the form of bread and wine instead of bread alone. The Nicene Creed is recited without a major theological cause of the schism, the filioque clause, thereby adhering to Orthodox teaching that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father alone...
...week Dr. Blake's ecumenical dream proved to be just as far away as ever. At the third annual Consultation on Church Union at Princeton, delegates from the six participating churches* discovered that there was enough agreement on such theological issues as the nature of baptism and Holy Communion for the talks to proceed. Then they stumbled over another crucial theological point - and over a matter of personal piety...