Word: communionism
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...around. We were among the more unfortunate vessels. At the end of the first week aboard ship my men began asking about church services, so I took it upon myself to conduct Sunday services. The response to these services was so tremendous that I attempted to conduct Holy Communion the night before we were to land on enemy-held territory...
...participated, especially those who are no longer with us, and will never be able to take the sacrament again, will forgive me." Commented Rector Jones: "Fully admitting the irregularity, which to many will seem a weak word, of a layman's celebrating the Holy Communion, and other elements in the service almost as startling, I can but believe that the sacrament was as valid in the sight of God as it would have been if regularly held in one of our largest cathedrals...
...Manhattan he and Mrs. Dewey attended Fifth Avenue's rich Church of the Heavenly Rest (Episcopal). Now they are members of Albany's St. Peter's Church, occupy pew 56, second row on the right-center aisle. During the winter they go regularly, receive Holy Communion once a month. Entering and leaving church the Deweys find time for considerable friendly handshaking. Says a fellow vestryman: "The Governor is the only lawyer on the vestry, and he is a real help to us." Before meals Governor Dewey says a grace his father taught...
...widespread social unrest. Central Europe broke out into a rash of mystical, often non-sacramental sects whose members strove (usually under fierce persecution) to recover the spirit and the practices of the primitive Christian church. In the midst of arid orthodoxy, they sought catacombs of the spirit where direct communion with God might be achieved, usually with little or no intercession by clergy...
Shall we seek for communion of souls...