Word: communionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pledged my life as did millions of Spaniards-a flag that goes with me wherever I go and which shall be the winding sheet of my body, a flag in which I see the image of a strong and silent flame. Let us all unite in true spiritual communion to save Spain from the anarchy and communism sweeping the country...
...necessity of delivering some kind of eulogy on such an occasion. He will remember similar predicaments in which he has found himself on occasion, and will wonder why, since the service occurred in an Episcopal church, the rector did not seek asylum in the superior custom of the Anglican communion of refraining from any kind of eulogy. ... If a saint has died a eulogy is useless, if a sinner a eulogy is impossible, and if like Tomlinson and the rest of us the deceased is neither a sinner nor a saint a eulogy tempts the parson to dishonesty...
...Vagabond spent a bad day of it yesterday. The reading period is dull going for such as he what with no lectures and every one either away from Cambridge or hidden somewhere in the stacks. He spent the morning wandering about the Yard trying to seek consolation in self communion. When that failed he invented a new game which served well enough for a time; he tried counting the bricks as the masons were laying up the walls of the new chapel, but he soon lost track. At last in desperation he dropped in to a house for lunch. There...
Each would admit the other's members to communion, without demanding acceptance of all doctrinal opinion or performance of all liturgical practices...
...Rome has always treated her Eastern sister wrongfully. She intrudes her bishops in the ancient dioceses, and keeps up a system of active proselytism. The Eastern Church is reasonably outraged by these proceedings, wholly contrary as they are to catholic principles; and it behooves us of the Anglican Communion to take care that we do not offend in like manner...