Word: communionism
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While Holy Trinity Church is nominally Anglican and title to the building rests with the Church of England in Canada, Pastor Barrow has made its liturgy a blend of Protestant ritual. Anglican Holy Communion services are followed by interdenominational services. United Church communion rites are performed regularly. Sunday school classes are taught from literature published by various Protestant faiths. Holy Trinity's board is elected with such impartiality that its chairman, Dr. G. M. Bastedo, could not recall last week the denominations of its members. Said Dr. Bastedo: "It doesn't really matter. We are all just Protestants...
...Hobart, as he will at numerous other U.S. universities and Episcopalian centers during the next six months. Wherever there is time for him to train assistants, he will also conduct a demonstration of the Mass as it was performed in approximately 200 A.D. Such Dix demonstrations aim to make Communion meaningful to Christians for whom it has been a beautiful but meaningless fossil of antique forms...
Ordinary People. At his demonstration Mass, Dom Gregory explains the primitive Communion as it was celebrated by a bishop, deacons, priests and congregation. Each member brought his own piece of bread and small portion of wine. The bishop and priests then consecrated all the bread and wine. At the end, the congregation filed by and took Communion under both forms, saving some of the bread to carry home so that they could take Communion by themselves during the week...
...Each individual offered himself-as Christ had offered Himself-and in Communion the individual got back his own life transformed into the life...
...saving of men to Christ." He added an attack on the recent papal encyclical Humani Generis (TIME, Sept. 4) for "statements and arguments so far removed from the conception of Christian truth held outside the Roman Church that their publication and enforcement cannot but increase the isolation of that communion and must make any approach to understanding more difficult . . . The Roman Church takes its own line and does not stand as an ally toward other Christian bodies in the cause of freedom. For there are parts of the world in which the Roman authorities permit without protest and even encourage...