Word: communionism
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...today, must subscribe in statement of belief to the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds, which indicates that those Creeds are of requirement for its own people. If there be any Episcopal ministers who "are embarrassed by most of the Apostles' Creed," they obviously do not belong in that Communion, and nobody who is informed thinks they represent that Communion in what they write...
...Protestant churchman in the U.S. will start the day as a cleric, by celebrating Holy Communion; at the 11 o'clock service he will be sitting in a pew with his family, like any layman...
...faith was the emphasis upon man's utter helplessness before an awesome and all-powerful God who had predetermined until the end of time who would be saved by His grace and who would be left to the eternal damnation all men deserved. In his doctrine of the Communion, Calvin differed from Luther and the Catholics in teaching that the presence of Christ in the Eucharist is spiritual, not physical...
Authority & Salvation. To Protestants, he says, the Bible is "the supreme authority upon all matters of Christian belief and behavior . . . the chief and permanent medium of the Christian's communion with God." But to Roman Catholics, says Dr. Mackay, Church tradition "is equal in authority to the Bible. Moreover, the Church itself, under the leadership of an infallible pope, is ultimately more authoritative than either the Bible or tradition...
Jesuit Father José María Vélaz made sure that his 28 schoolboys went to confession and Communion before they boarded the chartered DC-3 that was to take them to Caracas for the holidays. The lads, aged 9 to 17, sons of prominent Caracas families, were students at Father Vélaz' Colegio de San Jose at Merida in western Venezuela; two were nephews of President German Suárez Flamerich. As they walked out to the plane in the midday heat, strapping, Chilean-born Father Vélaz waved goodbye...