Word: communion
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This odd, mystical communion between husband and wife comes to seem an almost heritable trait in succeeding generations of this temporally extended family. When Avra, Yochanan and Esther's granddaughter and a practicing kleptomaniac, marries Shimon, who has come to Palestine from Russia, she tells him of her many past thefts and adds, truthfully, that she invariably returned the stolen goods, although not always to their rightful owners. Shimon is at first shocked and appalled and then fascinated. He asks her for more details, and she obliges, spinning stories about the places where the objects she stole originated. As they...
...chief, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, that will be sent to every Catholic bishop warning against the temptation to view other denominations as equals. "There exists a single Church of Christ, which subsists in the Catholic Church," writes Ratzinger. Churches that don't accept papal primacy are, he says, in "imperfect communion" with the church, and are "not Churches in the proper sense...
...attendance at the homes of Barbra Streisand and Warren Beatty - who would know of their own party's rich corruptions and fat-catteries? One would think that Clinton had invented this giant watermelon economy all by himself, and that the Los Angeles convention was a kind of multicultural communion of saints...
...Marisleysis, surrogate of the Drowned Madonna, back from the hospital where the stress has sent her, works the barricades now, distributing cups of cool drink to the people in the way that a priest distributes communion. And they take the cups from her hand as from a saint...
...John Paul's journey unfolded last week, he found moments of sublime communion, as in the grotto, or near the bank of the Jordan River, where the Pope reportedly confided in companions, "In my mind I see Jesus coming to the waters...not far from here to be baptized by John the Baptist. I see Jesus passing on his way to the Holy City where he would die and rise again; I see him opening the eyes of the blind man as he passes...