Word: communionism
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...Davenport last week the House of Bishops acknowledged but did nothing about a petition of 2,115 clergymen against admitting non-Episcopal ministers to Episcopal communion, occasioned by a service in which the administering of communion was shared by Episcopalians, Baptists and Methodists in St. Louis Episcopal Cathedral last year. The House also urged the U. S. to join the World Court; came out for aggressive pacifism; sympathized with persecuted Jews in Germany...
...save two who wore low-church chimera and academic hoods (one of these. Bishop Francis Marion Taitt of Pennsylvania, had welcomed the Congress saying his diocese had all sorts of churchmanship "but most churches get along neighborly"). In the sermon of the Mass Bishop Perry exclaimed: "The way of communion with God is the only way by which Christian reunion shall at last be realized. Catholic Christianity bears witness to the wholeness of faith, it is a spiritual condition essential to the vision of God's whole...
...with John Henry Newman trying to show that there was no real difference of form or theology between the Church of England and the Church of Rome. On the grounds that the Pope in Rome alone held the true Apostolic Succession from St. Peter, Newman withdrew from the Anglican Communion, later became a Cardinal...
...Gloria which angels sang at Christ's birth. Just before the priest consecrates the Host there may be a full-voiced Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth- "Holy, holy, holy Lord God of hosts," recalling Christ's triumphant entry into Jerusalem. And at the great moment of communion with the Body and Blood of Christ, the congregation may sing in supplication, Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis: "Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy...
...differ from those of other Christian sects). Spiritualists resent being classed with fortune-tellers and crystal-gazers (while professional magicians delight thus to classify them). Church services are usually on Sunday night, with hymn-singing, invocation, Bible-reading, lecture and-central feature which Spiritualists regard as their "Communion"-a séance. With the minister or a visiting medium officiating, messages are received from the other world. The congregation may applaud, chat. Cheeriness is the note...