Word: communionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came, the custodians of Europe's civilization knew it would mean a long silence for man's communion with literature and art. But they were ready for it, sure that somehow knowledge would survive in the dark chambers and subterranean crypts where they had secreted...
Before the communion rail in St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Philadelphia's grimy Kensington industrial district last week knelt 80 out-of-work hosiery workers. They joined curly-haired Rector David Carl Colony in a prayer of thanksgiving. They listened to his sermon: "Remember . . . you have not arrived by yourselves but with the help...
Montreal's baseball stadium last Sunday presented an unusual sight. Before an altar, built between centre field and second base, stood 105 brides in white gowns, white veils, 105 bridegrooms in blue suits. In St. James Basilica that morning they had received Holy Communion. In the Wind sor Hotel they ate breakfast, signed marriage registers. On the baseball field they heard a sermon by Most Rev. George's Gauthier, Archbishop-Coadjutor of Montreal. A dynamic, youngish priest whom they all knew, Father Henri Roy, celebrated a nuptial mass after 105 priests made the couples men and wives. Then...
...fasting before Communion): You can gargle, or use mouthwash, or brush your teeth before Communion, and you do not need to worry about getting rid of every drop. . . . The fast can only be broken by something digestible, so if you chew your fingernails, there is no need to worry...
...illnesses in which the stomach rejects all food, Holy Communion may not be received, out of reverence for the Sacrament...