Word: communionism
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...goes to China. Nixon feels he enjoys a special relationship with Pompidou. "I find the French President a man very much like myself," he once remarked. The French President reciprocates the feeling. On leaving the U.S. after a visit in 1970, Pompidou remarked that he and Nixon shared a "communion of temperament...
...given me," Aldrin radioed later to Houston. "In the one-sixth gravity of the moon, the wine curled slowly and gracefully up the side of the cup. It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the moon and the first food eaten there were Communion elements. Just before I partook of the elements, I read the words which I had chosen to indicate our trust: John 15: 5, 'I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit...
...Dead are good, they are truly magical--they can create a frenzy out of nothing. But even "Dark Star" was done mostly (so it seemed) for form's sake. It was a crumb thrown to their fans in lieu of a real "Evening With the Grateful Dead"--the mystical communion of souls and music that only the Dead can initiate and then sustain. Lately, their magic hasn't been much in evidence...
...THEME AND ITS EFFECT: The celebrant represents what in every person allows him to live, to go from day to day, which is the capacity to believe. That is what is destroyed along with the order of the Mass and the vessels of Communion. Then there is the long silence. Everyone in that silence has to look inside himself, and find in himself that spark of God. Not in any icon or symbol or trappings of religion but inside. Only when he finds that can he begin to relate to another person, then to a group, ultimately to society...
...offend the Catholics or the Kennedys, and yet there was pretty violent stuff. You see, I have not written a Mass. I have written a theater piece about a Mass. It cannot be performed in a church as a Mass. Yet it is still a deeply religious work. The Communion we give is the kiss of peace, which was a feature of the early Christian Mass. Catholics who heard it have told me it was one of the deepest experiences they ever...