Word: euchariste
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...bears ancient and august titles: Ecumenical Patriarch and Archbishop of the "New Rome" in Constantinople, the mother church of Eastern Orthodoxy since the 4th century. He is the symbolic leader of the world's 85 million Orthodox Christians. Yet when His Holiness Demetrios I presides over the Sunday Eucharist at the Church of St. George in Istanbul, the giant chandeliers cast their feeble light across ranks of empty pews. The congregation numbers only a dozen or so worshipers, most of them elderly. The historic see, once the center of half the Christian world, is dying...
...singular sort of expression, a sort of holy expression which one suddenly realised came from the fact that he was scared stiff in case someone asked him a question in a foreign language...He looked in fact as if he had just emerged after partaking of the Eucharist with Frank Sinatra...
That is because unity has become a more tangible possibility after a decade of work by a joint Anglican-Catholic commission. To date, the commission has produced substantial agreement on the nature of the Eucharist, on each church's recognition of the other's ministries and on the "universal primacy" that should be held by the see of Rome in any future union (TIME, Jan. 31). Among the major differences still unresolved: the questions of marriage after divorce, the veneration of Mary and priestly celibacy...
...shortage of missionary priests, according to American Moral Theologian Francis X. Murphy, is one element that may eventually change Vatican thinking. Says he: "Women will be ordained when there is necessity for it, as there is in the Third World. You can't have the church without the Eucharist...
...spite of the scare caused by the mysterious disease that felled some legionnaires who had met in the city two weeks before (see MEDICINE), the congress expected to draw one million people, as many as did Philadelphia's July 4 festivities and the Chicago Eucharistic Congress of 1926. By contrast, the first congress of 1881 in Lille, France, was attended by only 800 people. That initial one was inspired by French Laywoman Marie Tamisier to foster devotion to the Eucharist and belief in Christ's "real presence" in the elements of bread and wine. Like the 40 subsequent...