Word: sacramentalism
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...planning to spend the day which was the feast of St. Joseph, foster father of Christ. By nightfall 50,000 pilgrims had crowded into the crypt. They had heard pontifical high mass sung by Montreal's Auxiliary Bishop Alphonse Emmanuel Deschamps, later assisted at benediction of the Blessed Sacrament given by Vicar General Monseigneur Conrad Chaumont. They crossed themselves before a great marble statue of St. Joseph, gazed in awe at the multitude of discarded crutches, braces, trusses which filled the alcoves and niches of the crypt. And of the throng of pilgrims many a halt or ailing...
Chicago, Ill. Sirs: "Common Cup & Intinction" (TIME, May 14). The principle at stake is very simple; the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper is, at the command of the Nazarene, "Drink ye all, of this" and any effort to modernize the command by a pseudo-sanitation idea is direct disobedience of our Lord. . . . If the Cup can carry danger, why stop at the Cup? In the act of Intinction, the fingers of the Priest dip into the wine; why not provide him sterile gloves? Why not mask all the congregation who are dangerous in their coughing and sneezing...
...Blessed Sacrament is adored by every Roman Catholic as the true Body and Blood of Christ. It is a particle of unleavened bread, generally baked by nuns, and consecrated by the priest during mass. When not in use it rests in a ciborium (cuplike vessel) in the tabernacle, a stout box on the church's high altar. In time of stress the Blessed Sacrament is the priest's first concern. In Toledo one night last week Rev. Francis J. Keyes hastened into his church, St. Patrick's. The tabernacle containing the ciborium and Host was gone...
...Huldreich Zwingli (1484-1531), Swiss Reformer, taught that the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was merely a memorial service with no mystic significance...
...Those Hindu priests said. `Will all orthodox Hindus come forward and receive the sacred food?* I had not realized that they had a ceremony so much like our own sacrament, and there was a moment of terrific suspense, and then a woman from the back of the group said. 'There are no such distinctions here. We are all one and either we all come forward or no one will come forward.' . . . And so in a few minutes, after a consultation of those Hindu priests on that altar rock, the priest came down among us and offered...