Word: communionism
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...also involves the spiritual shattering of a young man who begins as a simple guitarist and gradually becomes a priestly celebrant by receiving various sacred vestments-just as the church itself gradually acquired more and more trappings of ritual. Eventually, when he attempts to offer the mob Holy Communion, the symbolic body and blood of Christ, they cry out, "Dona nobis pacem [Give us peace]!" and blame God because man has not abolished war on earth: "Give us peace that we don't keep breaking...
...people look at him, he shouts angrily, "What are you staring at? Haven't you ever seen an accident?" But his inner state has been defined earlier when he sings: "My spirit falters on decaying altars and my illusions fail." Bernstein's own idea of Communion is achieved at the finale when the entire cast begins to exchange embraces and kisses of peace, and boy sopranos stroll into the auditorium, shake hands with the aisle sitters and whisper, "Pass...
...Bologna professor asserted, the Lex reflects no "hierarchy of truth," placing all church teachings on the same level and demanding acceptance of them all without distinction. Theologically, he complained, the doctrine of the Eucharist, that of Jesus Christ's real presence in the bread and wine of Communion, is slighted. For Vatican II, the doctrine was the focal point of the church's existence...
...ironing board in front of the Palm City house of Grower Robert Egger, a key figure in a farm labor dispute. He has refused repeated orders of San Diego Bishop Leo T. Maher to wear vestments other than the serape, and to stop using corn tortillas as Communion bread. (Wheat tortillas would apparently be acceptable under recently authorized changes in the Mass.) Maher, who has backed workers' rights to organize but pledged church neutrality in the conflict, said last month that Salandini was a man "under terrific tension" with "a grave persecution complex." Last week Maher ordered Salandini suspended...
...from the infestation of drugs, is the fact that musicians and promoters have grown greedy. What with high admission prices and thousands jammed into tight, inadequately equipped spaces, the kids no longer feel that the music is theirs. Too much was expected of the Woodstock dream, of its unique communion in sound...