Word: communion
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...shared with the rebels of Corpus Christi as they stand up to Rome. After joining the church in 1983, the 43-year-old mother of three ministered to her flock, preaching on a weekly basis, hearing confession and presiding at Mass. And though she neither granted absolution nor consecrated Communion, five years ago, the congregation recognized her leadership by vesting her with an alb and a half-stole. It was a gift that unleashed a host of hidden enemies...
...Christians intruding into an event meant to galvanize a culture of which I was not a part; while I could appreciate all that I saw, I could never really belong. My grandmother gave me a delicate gold crucifix on a chain when I made my First Holy Communion (the gift is a tradition on the Italian Catholic side of the family), and it crossed my mind that perhaps I should have worn it. In a sense, I wanted my crucifix to be my excuse, my reason for not getting the subtle jokes and for keeping to myself in the film...
...market's five-day run, the lobby of the Angelika Film Center was still aswarm with writer-producer-directors passing out handbills, waving placards, showing trailers on handheld DVD players, almost literally collaring people to see their films. It was marketing as hand-to-hand combat, an uneasily direct communion between filmmaker and potential audience member. The pitches: a blaxploitation parody starring a white guy! An ex-cop grandma wages war on her grandson's kidnappers! A lost relic with aphrodisiacal powers--Jesus' foreskin--turns up in Manhattan! "Pringles financed my movie," a commercial actor turned documentarian told...
...life, regretting the effects of the worldwide aviation he had pioneered ("Every year," he wrote in his journal, "transport planes seem to get more like subway trains"), he campaigned as an environmentalist, circling the world ceaselessly, traveling light, seeking out primitive peoples in an exercise of atavistic communion...
...sinking liner which darted over Busch Stadium's left-field wall gave Big Mac a moment of communion with the lofty ghosts of Roger Maris and The Bambino...