Word: communionism
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...along on five hours of sleep, but he also developed a flair for handling his delinquent parishioners. On Saturday nights he would make the rounds of the neighborhood bars, eye a backslider and say: "Shouldn't you go to confession tonight so that you can go to Communion tomorrow?" Gradually, the number of Holy Name Society members showing up regularly for Communion rose from...
Memorial Church will hold Communion today, Maundy Thursday, renewing a tradition begun in 1814. Four silver chalices, purchased through a special Corporation vote in that year will be used in administering the Sacrament...
...service, called "a free church Communion," will follow a simplified Protestant order, George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, said yesterday. He, in addition to two Divinity School professors, two graduate students, and C. Howard Wallace, of the United Ministry, will lead the hour-long observance...
...date of the last Communion celebrated in Memorial Church is uncertain. Buttrick said that Edward Cadwell Moore, University Preacher from 1915 to 1929, observed the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper regularly three times each year. Buttrick's predecessor, the late Dean Willard L. Sperry, held Communion only intermittently at the start of his tenure...
...that the President (John Thornton Kirkland), Dr. Lathrop (John Lathrop, Secretary to the Board of Overseers), and Professor Hedge (Levi Hedge, College Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, and Alfred Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity) be authorized to procure a service of plate suitable for the Communion at the expense of the Corporation." New silver plate and glass cups were recently purchased for use in addition to the historic vessels...