Word: communions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee suggested that the question of merger be discussed at the parish and district level for two years. Only after the discussions end will ecclesiastical experts attempt to resolve such technical problems as whether the teetotaling Methodists should continue to use grape juice instead of wine in Holy Communion...
...Bible is silent, we are silent," says Hollywood Minister Harris Goodwin. The churches accept only the authority of Scripture -but they leave each member free to interpret Scripture as he chooses. Their five "avenues of worship" are singing (but always a cappella: the Bible does not authorize instruments), praying, communion (taken every Sunday), preaching and giving...
Within the Anglican Communion, the Rome-admiring Oxford movement led, in mid-19th century, to a revival of both monks and nuns. The modern deaconess movement began with the Rev. Theodor Fliedner (1800-64), pastor of a Lutheran parish in the German town of Kaisers-werth. Inspired in part by the Roman Catholic order of nursing sisters established by France's St. Vincent de Paul, Fliedner in 1836 drew up plans for a Protestant Association of Christian Nursing; by 1849 he had brought Lutheran deaconesses to France, Britain...
...deaconesses associated with the Kaiserswerth movement still serve primarily in hospitals, but other Protestant sisters undertake almost every ministerial duty short of celebrating the communion service. In Germany, Darmstadt's Ecumenical Sisters of Mary do missionary work among the poor, perform religious plays for pilgrim audiences, run a retreat house. Organized in 1946 to serve penance for Nazi crimes against world Jewry, the sisters eat breakfast standing up in commemoration of concentration-camp routine, recite special prayers on the eve of the Jewish Sabbath. Another German sisterhood, the Casteller Ring of Schloss Schwanberg, has an intellectual apostolate: teachers...
Christmas Day Service (NBC, 11 a.m. to noon). Communion from Washington Cathedral...