Word: communionism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Repairing the damage done by Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn has been the subject of five years of discussions by the Joint Commission on Roman Catholic-Anglican Relations in the United States. On the international level, comparable deliberations are going on between the Vatican and the Anglican Commission. "Full communion and organic union" are the goals declared in a document released by the Episcopal Church Center in New York City last May 4, and Most Rev. Charles H. Helmsing, Catholic bishop of Kansas City St. Joseph, Mo., states emphatically: "We must bring about the union of the Anglican and Roman...
...consciences to the best of our ability, we must advise you that by your own act, you are incapable of genuine participation in any Christian assembly or religious service, you are acting improperly in requesting ministers, priests, and rabbis to conduct services for you, and you are not in communion with us. . . In the name of the Lord and of the Christian people. Pentecost...
...admonition to the Corinthian women, St. Paul was merely applying Jewish practice to new Christian congregations. But in the 19 centuries since, many Christian churches have followed the Pauline exhortation as if it were divine law. Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, the Anglican Communion and Lutheran churches have until now been especially slow to remove regulations barring women from a full role in the ministry...
...Late last week the moderate American Lutheran Church, at its own convention in Texas, did likewise. Indeed, the World Council of Churches recently reported that 70 denominations around the world have admitted women to the full ministry of "Word and Sacrament"-allowing them both to preach and preside over Communion services...
Compare, for instance, the warmth and easy rapport of these obviously experienced players-now in their fifth season-with the seemingly bogus spiritual communion of the Loeb actors in last year's Grotowski experiment, The Three Sisters. Grotowski's method was salient throughout the production, but it didn't add to (frequently detracted from) Chekhov's script. If animal magnetism caused the players to embrace each other at the end of the play, their frantic hugging gave the audience at least an emblem of deep feelings which, purely as artists, they were unable to make the audience share...