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Word: communions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Church of the Holy Spirit in Salinas, Calif., one Sunday last month, Mrs. Phyllis Edwards, 48, walked to the altar to minister at 8 o'clock Holy Communion. Dressed in a deaconess' dark blue, nunlike robes surmounted by a deacon's stole, Mrs. Edwards calmly intoned the prayers and then distributed the bread and wine of Communion, which had been consecrated by the church's rector at a previous service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Episcopalians: Communion from a Woman | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

...Holy Communion in St. Margaret's, the House of Commons' parish church, the Archbishop of Canterbury intoned, "We commend to God Winston Spencer Churchill as he approaches death." A private message from the Pope was delivered by Monsignor Cardinale, the apostolic delegate to Britain. There were special prayers at Harrow, his old school, and at Castle Rising, near Sandringham. where the Queen and members of the royal family attended church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Churchill: We Shall Never Surrender! | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...American Church, says Sargent, is "a local, ecumenical church"-Communion is open to all, and there are no denominational requirements for membership-and as such has a unique value to Christianity. "Every year," he proudly says, "hundreds of persons whose lives have been touched in some way by this church return to the U.S. Usually they return to their own denominations, but with a difference. They bring with them a new willingness to express in new ways our eternal unity in Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clergy: A Reach for Young Rebels | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

Though he loved the masses, Eastman did not neglect individuals. "To me lust is sacred." he writes, "sexual embraces nearer to a Holy Communion than a profane indulgence-a partaking, so to speak, of the blood and body of Nature." He partook generously. Leaving his wife and child, he moved in with a comely actress, Florence Deshon, whose temperament was much like his: she had once caused a near-riot in a theater by refusing to rise for the Star Spangled Banner. The affair was a stormy one; as Eastman torridly tells it, heaven-shattering passion alternated with earth-shaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Cheerful Radical | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

...Shut Up. In the U.S., every major city has one or more experimental Inner City missions, many of them modeled on the interdenominational East Harlem Protestant Parish, where Holy Communion is often celebrated around a kitchen table in an apartment, and a team of laymen and clerics spend most of their waking hours combatting the apathy of public officialdom and a poverty-stricken community. The National Council of Churches is supporting an ambitious new program of Christian involvement called "the Delta Ministry." In 15 Mississippi counties, council staff workers and volunteers will be working with Negro organizations on voter registration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christianity: The Servant Church | 12/25/1964 | See Source »

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