Word: communion
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...increase? One word: community. "The church is still one of the main ways for people to be with each other and with God," says Canon Jim Rosenthal of the Anglican Communion. In good times, people may not feel a need for the security that faith can provide. But the attacks shook the status quo, says Henry Paasonen, senior pastor of the Berlin International Church, prompting "consciousness of the preciousness of life and how disaster can terminate that so suddenly...
...felt my earliest memories pop up--like making bouquets with her and my sister from flowers we'd pull off bushes on the way to church to leave on the marble communion rail. When my mother died, her coffin was in that chapel. In 1996 the Redemptorist Fathers were desanctifying and selling the building, and I was able to buy it and preserve it--and I also bought our old house on St. Charles Avenue. Whatever people may say, I do believe you can buy back your past...
...back to the Catholic Church, which I abandoned three years after my mother died. I didn't believe in God or Jesus Christ then. But in New Orleans, close to my roots and my mother, I gradually realized that I did believe, that I wanted to go back to communion, to be a member again. So I did partake of the banquet. In that year, because we had not been married with the Catholic sacrament, Stan and I were remarried in my parish church. It was one of the happiest days of my life...
...have about 35,000 people studying to become lay ministers," she says. "Once they?ve completed their studies, they can take on many of the duties traditionally taken on by priests. They won?t be able to perform the sacraments, like marriages and funerals, but they can bring communion to the sick...
...Later yesterday afternoon, a Catholic priest led a mass outside of Mass. Hall, and gave communion to about 30 students. HUPD then unlocked the doors to Mass. Hall and allowed the priest into the vestibule of the building to give communion to Catholic protesters...