Word: communionism
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...great religions of the East, Hinduism and Buddhism, have never swung away from mysticism as the pinnacle of holiness, though they also value deeds of compassion. Traditional Islamic belief views the saint or wali (friend of God) as a person with a foot in both worlds-one whose special communion with Allah coincides with his excellence in good works. As for Christianity's own rich tradition of monastic mysticism, which goes back to the fabled desert anchorites of Egypt, it seems to be undergoing a revival there and elsewhere...
...disagreeable aspects of menstruation. There are, indeed, a few amusing moments in it, but for the most part the film consists of naked women standing on a hilltop, legs spread apart, with a most unusual, watery, lurid pinkish substance gusing down their legs. The humorous highlights are a mock communion scene in which codeine tablets are taken in place of wafers and menstrual blood is drunk in lieu of wine, and when some woman with a sanitary napkin hooked up over her clothing, leaping about, stomps up and down on a box of Kotex. It's all rather artsy...
...Tsarist government and sentenced to death. At the very last moment before he was to face the firing squad, a messenger arrived with a commutation of his sentence to exile in Siberia. When he returned from Siberia, he espoused a mystical sort of slavophilism that stressed spiritual communion with "the Russian people...
...first it seems difficult to put your finger on saxophonist Gato Barbieri's current problems. But put on his incomplete "Communion" album, recorded with trumpeter Don Cherry in the early '60s (when Gato was still Leandro), and then compare it with his most recent "Alive in New York" album and you'll spot the difference immediately. It's all in the personnel...
...over church ceremonies. But Bishop Robert Rusack has banned from his Los Angeles diocese a fourth prelate, George Barrett, the resigned bishop of Rochester, whose ordination of more women last month was "decried" at Portland. Meanwhile, many of the 14 women with disputed priestly credentials continue to celebrate Holy Communion in defiance of local bishops...