Word: communionism
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...ceremonies at St. Mark's, a member of the Illinois Synod, are no once-a-year ritual. With the approval of his church council and the congregation, Stephen Bremer has instituted daily morning prayer. Communion service on Sundays and saints' days, an evening vigil at Easter; private confession is available to any parishioner who wants it. Nor is St. Mark's an isolated example. Across the country among Methodists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians and Lutherans, a radical reform in both the form and content of religious services is now under way. It is a liturgical revival that both goes...
Return to Cassocks. Though the sermon still remains the focus of most Protestant services, the most notable sign of the liturgical times is restoration of Communion services to a central place in the order of worship. At the Redford Presbyterian Church in Detroit, Communion is now monthly instead of four times a year; the church is considering whether to make the service weekly. At the Travis Park Methodist Church in San Antonio, the congregation recently asked their pastor to offer Communion every Sunday, instead of once a month. Many Lutheran churches have revived the sung "German Mass," according...
...wore either a simple black robe or no robe at all at services; now two-thirds of them dress in either cassock, surplice and stole or full Eucharistic vestments. In San Francisco, Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike is urging his priests to don chasubles of traditional liturgical color for Communion services...
Episcopal Church. Members in good standing are baptized Episcopalians who have gone to church every Sunday during the past year "unless for good cause prevented." Communicants in good standing are members in good standing who have also been confirmed and who have received Holy Communion at least three times during the preceding year "unless for good cause prevented...
Ponderous and stiff with the incrustation of centuries of bickering and privilege is the Eastern Orthodox Communion-an assortment of 15 national churches headed by patriarchs and loosely bound by a common tradition of liturgy, sacerdotalism, and suspicion of Rome. Last week, on the sun-drenched Greek island of Rhodes, representatives of 12 of the 15 main churches gathered for a Pan-Orthodox Conference...