Word: rite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course Jake goes with Magda to Berlin and finds himself in far greater peril than he had imagined. But his rite of passage is not only the literal trek from East back to West but the psychological journey toward true maturity. Experiencing the sense of danger that his father must have felt so often during his exploits, Jake comes face to face with the enemy: "I have blamed the world, my father, mother, uncle, and wife for all my weaknesses. I have wallowed in self-pity." It is time, he decides, to enter the free world...
...rite was symbolically linked to an almost forgotten age, when Britain had but one Catholic Church: the priceless Canterbury Gospels were ceremonially moved onto the altar. The volume had been presented by Pope Gregory I to Augustine, the first Archbishop of Canterbury, as he sent him to Christianize the eastern British Isles...
...service was conducted near the very spot where the 12th century Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket was slain by the Anglican King's men for his loyalty to Pope and church. The rite moved determinedly through history, even commemorating modern martyrs who died of religious persecution. And after this emotional service, John Paul and the other churchmen lunched, to talk of matters ecumenical and, one assumes, fraternal...
...back to Peter and the Apostles: the apostolic succession. Anglicans have a special problem that the international dialogue must soon face directly. The reason: in 1896 Pope Leo XIII declared that Anglican orders are, and always have been, "absolutely null and utterly void," mainly because the 16th century ordination rite omitted the power of priests to offer a sacrifice of Christ in the Mass. Therefore Anglican Primate Runcie and other bishops are technically, in papal eyes, not ordained priests at all. (An added complication is Rome's insistence that women cannot be priests, while several Anglican churches, though...
...cloth. Reeve, 29, plays an Irish Catholic priest from New York's Lower East Side who rises to become a Cardinal. The actor, a lapsed Episcopalian, spent seven weeks taking Catholic instruction from Paulist priests. For one location scene in Sicily, he performed a Communion rite for 300 extras. Recalls Reeve: "My mother said, 'Call me if you convert.' That didn't happen, but I developed enormous respect for the ritual I was performing." Does this mean he has put away childish things like playing comic-book characters? Lois Lane and other fans of Krypton...