Word: communionism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bride. At an open-air altar, flanked by the mayors of nearby cities and other distinguished guests, the Bishop of Grahamstown tried to perform the Anglican marriage ceremony. But a gaggle of more than 70 camera-bearing whites crowded the honored guests off their chairs, knocked over the Communion wine, tore the altar backcloth, left empty Coca-Cola bottles on the altar-cloth. Above the altar, someone raised a huge billboard exhorting all present to smoke Commando cigarettes...
...this parish in the past four and a half years, we have presented for confirmation and acceptance into the communion of this church 453 people. Of these, 32 have been Roman Catholics, duly confirmed in the Roman Catholic Church, and received into the full communion of this church...
Spoonful of Oil. Therewith began the Anglican Communion service, which is the heart of coronation. Embedded in the familiar liturgy of the Book of Common Prayer, the mysteries of the anointing and crowning lost their strangeness for Britons, and the Abbey became, in a trice a nation's parish church. Archbishop and people intoned...
...Communion. There remained one more duty for Elizabeth II to perform: to receive the Lord's Supper. The liturgy of the Holy Communion was said as the Archbishop led the Queen to the Communion rail. Kneeling, she removed her Crown and offered the oblation which custom demands of monarchs: "An ingot or wedge of gold, of a pound weight," and "a pall or altar cloth." Philip, her husband, stepped to her side, and while the choir sang the hymn, All People That on Earth Do Dwell, man & wife received the bread and wine. Together, they led the prayer...
...disillusionment . . . was due mainly to the [Roman Catholic] emphasis on externals rather than on essentials . . . On the positive side, the most impelling reason for my entering the Anglican Communion is its balance, restraint, moderation and 'humanizing'-if I may use the word-of things divine...