Word: communionism
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...rubrics of his church provide that no person be given Holy Communion until confirmed or desirous of being confirmed. Said Dr. Tucker: "... I am only doing openly and permitting persons of other denominations to do .habitually what has been done sub rosa and occasionally for many years...
...Church had been slowly correlating the elements here presented. The proposed changes would in no way compromise the essential principles established by the Reformation, but they would mould antiquated rules of Church discipline into harmony with modern needs. For example, the need of extending facilities for partaking of Holy Communion had made it seem wise to sanction reservation of the Sacrament (see RELIGION). Finally, Their Lordships should be guided by the action of the Assembly of the Church in approving the volume now presented for authorization...
...services. A priest, if his parishioners tolerate his fancies, may add little gestures to his services, may modify the presentation of his ritual. This congregation may sit during certain prayers; that one may stand. This one may read aloud; that one may read silently. To this congregation the Holy Communion may be merely a symbolic ceremony, to that one a sacrament suffused with almost Roman Catholic mysticism. The wine and unleavened bread used during the Holy Communion to one congregation will represent Blood & Body only for the few minutes of the service, to another congregation they remain Blood & Body forever...
...Church, Philadelphia, according to a statement of the rector, Bishop White. The possible reasons for Bishop White's statement, and its lack of evidential value as to Washington's general practice, were commented upon by Bishop Meade. There is quite as unimpeachable testimony that Washington did partake of the Communion, both before and after the period to which White referred...
George Washington started the idea of Washington Cathedral. He believed in God, but he was never known to pray in church, although he attended services at times. He never knelt when there were prayers, nor did he ever take communion...