Word: communionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always thin, and lacking the power of the original as given in the hymn book. . . . He uses his tremolo too much, and drives everybody nearly to tears by his abuse of the chimes. Now he insists upon adding a Vox Humana stop to the organ. If I chant the Communion Service, as I do at our German Communion, he chases me on the organ, keeping about one note behind me. Should intoning be accompanied? He wants to play fancy chords while I read the Scripture Lessons, and I find it hard to stop him. What shall I do?-Despairing Pastor...
...After the Battle of Brandywine nearby, 500 wounded Continentals were nursed in the cloister by white-robed Ephrata nuns. As the years passed the community began to dwindle. In 1900 there were only 17 members, in 1920 none. "The Sharon" became a dilapidated catch-all for antiques, including a communion service presented by George Washington. Two groups of self-appointed trustees fought over pos session of the old shrine, took their squabble into court. The State of Pennsylvania, which plans some day to make a park of Ephrata, argued for ousting the trustees on the ground that assets have been...
...April 1931, Orator Coughlin at a Holy Name communion breakfast of New York firemen launched into a spirited eulogy of Mayor "Jimmy'' Walker who was already in bad odor. Soon after, Patrick Cardinal Hayes ruled that no ecclesiastical visitor might address a religious gathering without the Cardinal's permission. Last fortnight the New York archdiocese felt no more kindly toward Father Coughlin when he hustled into Manhattan without bothering to go through the customary formality, as an outside priest, of obtaining permission to speak. Reading of his scheduled address in the newspapers, archdiocesan officials taxed him with...
...Davenport last week the House of Bishops acknowledged but did nothing about a petition of 2,115 clergymen against admitting non-Episcopal ministers to Episcopal communion, occasioned by a service in which the administering of communion was shared by Episcopalians, Baptists and Methodists in St. Louis Episcopal Cathedral last year. The House also urged the U. S. to join the World Court; came out for aggressive pacifism; sympathized with persecuted Jews in Germany...
...save two who wore low-church chimera and academic hoods (one of these. Bishop Francis Marion Taitt of Pennsylvania, had welcomed the Congress saying his diocese had all sorts of churchmanship "but most churches get along neighborly"). In the sermon of the Mass Bishop Perry exclaimed: "The way of communion with God is the only way by which Christian reunion shall at last be realized. Catholic Christianity bears witness to the wholeness of faith, it is a spiritual condition essential to the vision of God's whole...