Word: communions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consecrated. The Canon, the most ancient prayer of the Mass, would remain in Latin; but rather than being recited silently, it would be said aloud, as is the custom in the ancient Eastern liturgies. On certain solemn occasions, such as Nuptial Masses, laymen would be able to receive Communion in the form of wine as well as bread. And the Mass would conclude not with the reading of the beginning of St. John's Gospel, a late Renaissance accretion, but with a final blessing of the people by the priest. Into this framework, bishops would be able to incorporate...
Ecumenical Overtones. The reform has striking ecumenical overtones. For if the Liturgical Commission has its way, the Roman Mass of the future will bear a much greater outward resemblance to the Anglican and Lutheran Communion services developed by the Reformation fathers 400 years...
...Lewis tossed off the remnants of his childhood faith at prep school, professed no belief at all through World War I and Oxford. No sudden illumination brought him back to the church; it was, he claimed, sheer logic that drove him step by step from atheism to taking Anglican communion again in 1930. "I'm not in the least the religious type," he wrote after his conversion. "I want to be let alone to feel I'm my own master; but since the facts seemed to be just the opposite, I had to give...
...Communion Every Wednesday. Lovett's trustees obviously felt that their church connection was not involved, since the school is, technically, an autonomous corporation without church affiliation. But in fact, 14 of Lovett's 21 trustees are required to be Episcopal communicants; their chairman is the dean of St. Philip's Cathedral; and, in keeping with the school's chartered purpose of furthering religion in accordance with "the Episcopal faith as contained in the Book of Common Prayer," Holy Communion is celebrated by the dean each Wednesday morning for the student body...
...nonfactual elements-is still very much In, as are the provocative terms coined in a Nazi prison by Bonhoeffer during World War II-"holy worldliness," "religionless Christianity," "cheap grace." But sometimes words lose favor when they are used too often; koinonia, from the Greek word for fellowship or communion, has been subject to almost as much misinterpretation as neurosis, and stirs troubled frowns nowadays when it is dropped into the conversation over divinity school coffee cups...