Word: communions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Characteristically, he introduced a homely personal touch-a letter from Cathy May Baker, 7, of Park Forest, Ill. She had written weeks before to tell the President that her grandmother wanted to take a train from New York to see Cathy's first Holy Communion, and would President Johnson "please keep the railroads running so that she can come to see me." Full of happy-ending sentiment, Lyndon looked into the cameras and said, "So Cathy's grandmother can now go to see her, and all my fellow Americans can be proud that the railroad management...
...their way of worship is the Mass rather than the lengthy Divine Liturgies of the East. The Western Rite missal has been purged of Roman "heresies," such as supererogation, the belief that man can acquire grace through the merits of saints as well as through Christ's redemption. Communion is given in the form of bread and wine instead of bread alone. The Nicene Creed is recited without a major theological cause of the schism, the filioque clause, thereby adhering to Orthodox teaching that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father alone...
...week Dr. Blake's ecumenical dream proved to be just as far away as ever. At the third annual Consultation on Church Union at Princeton, delegates from the six participating churches* discovered that there was enough agreement on such theological issues as the nature of baptism and Holy Communion for the talks to proceed. Then they stumbled over another crucial theological point - and over a matter of personal piety...
...morning last week, Pope Paul VI, 66, arrived to celebrate Mass, the first modern Pope ever to do so in a jail (Pope John XXIII visited the same prison in 1958, but did not say Mass). Four prisoners assisted Paul at the ceremony, and more than 600 inmates received Communion. Afterward, with the men pressing freely around him, the Pontiff was moved to tears, as he told them: "I have come to kindle in each of you a flame that may have gone out." When he left after 21 hours, he took with him a kneeling stand made...
...succeed him. The new P.B. must be a bishop, will be elected by secret ballot at the meeting of the House of Bishops in St. Louis next October. Among the most likely prospects: the Rt. Rev. Stephen Bayne, who is resigning this fall as executive officer of the Anglican Communion, and Bishop Richard Emrich of Michigan...