Word: intercommunion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first stage of the reunion plan would have required Methodist acceptance of the Anglicans' "historic episcopacy" and a "service of reconciliation" recognizing the validity of each church's ministerial orders. This would have brought the two churches into "full intercommunion," which means that Anglicans could receive the sacraments from Methodist ministers, and Methodists from Anglican priests...
Corrosive Criticism. No man is more aware of this dissension than Pope Paul VI, who issues new warnings almost daily against imprudence, rebellion, disobedience and the dangers of heresy. Last week he cautioned Catholics against tampering with "indispensable structures of the church" and partaking in intercommunion services with Protestants. "A spirit of corrosive criticism has become fashionable in certain sectors of Catholic life," he told an audience at Castel Gandolfo last September in a typical peroration. "Some want to go beyond what the solemn assemblies of the church have authorized, envisaging not only reforms but upheavals, which they think they...
...young friend had in fact been accustomed for some time to the idea of the intercommunion or mutual compensation of sorrows and pleasures and experience had taught him that sorrows are not always even accompanied by pleasures so he was now surprised that he should experience some pleasures which temporarily at least came without their corresponding sorrows...
Most churchmen believe that to break down all the barriers is to create chaos, but ecumenical theologians are in fact taking a long, new look at the relation of interCommunion to organic church union. The question came up early this month at an interfaith dialogue on the Eucharist between U.S. Roman Catholic and Episcopal churchmen. At the meeting, Jesuit Theologian Bernard Cooke of Marquette argued that interCommunion could well take place before the two churches are formally united. Historically, he pointed out, the Eucharist in the church has been both a symbol of unity in faith already achieved...
...Nothing More Normal." The classic objection to interCommunion is the fact that churches disagree about what the Eucharist signifies-Catholics believe that the bread and wine become Christ's body and blood, while Reformed churches say that he is spiritually present in the consecrated elements. The advocates of interCommunion argue that since the "church" embraces all those who follow Christ, the sacrament is not the property of a single tradition, and is thus appropriate for Christians working or praying together. Van den Heuvel points out that most cases of interCommunion have taken place in situations of "secular ecumenicity," where...