Word: eucharist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...such raids and executed. They could easily have saved their skins by staying home and saying their prayers in comfortable privacy. But they came together because they had to; they felt themselves to be a corporate whole-the living church of Christ. And for the Church to live, the Eucharist, or Holy Communion, had to be performed...
...clouds on the horizon today because a country beyond the ocean, capitalistic United States of America, aims at the imposition of its own capitalistic way of life on the rest of the world. . . . Here in Italy we have a Premier who worships dollars as much as he worships the Eucharist...
Giannini aspires to be the political voice of the Church as well as of Big Business. Last June he embraced Catholicism intensively; in one day Giannini, whose non-practicing Catholic father and English Protestant mother had never had him baptized, received four sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Eucharist and Matrimony (he remarried the woman to whom he had been wed in a civil ceremony years before...
...wanderings, the most delicately engaging character in the book. Saroyan seldom manages to embody emotions, but his lyric talent can brilliantly suggest even very subtle ones: Ulysses waving to a singing Negro on a passing freight; or handing his mother an egg as importantly as if it were the Eucharist; or, with a half-witted friend, scanning the books in the Public Library; or, before a robot in a shopwindow, first realizing death...
...Place, Bucks, hangs the portrait of an ancestor, Henry Vansittart, who was Governor of Bengal. That was the Vansittart who once sent his brother a live baboon, which the brother promptly presented to an organization both men belonged to, the Hell Fire Club, where the baboon was given the Eucharist at every meeting. Blasphemy had burned out of the family by the time Robert Gilbert Vansittart came along, as the conquering spirit had burned out of most Englishmen...