Word: sacramentally
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Informed of the event, non-Catholics were properly impressed by this example of the technical propriety with which Catholics surround the sacrament. They wondered, nonetheless, whether such a rebuke might not be even more fitting when applied to the members of some Protestant sect who, when they take communion, actually touch the chalice with their mouths; rather than to Catholics who merely stick out their tongues to receive small circles of wafer...
...Brent of the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York. It pointed out that "unity" of faith did not necessarily imply "uniformity" in the expression of faith; that co-operation in foreign mission fields, and the willingness of many Christians to join "without regard for denominational differences" in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper were evidences of church union...
...changes would in no way compromise the essential principles established by the Reformation, but they would mould antiquated rules of Church discipline into harmony with modern needs. For example, the need of extending facilities for partaking of Holy Communion had made it seem wise to sanction reservation of the Sacrament (see RELIGION). Finally, Their Lordships should be guided by the action of the Assembly of the Church in approving the volume now presented for authorization...
...little gestures to his services, may modify the presentation of his ritual. This congregation may sit during certain prayers; that one may stand. This one may read aloud; that one may read silently. To this congregation the Holy Communion may be merely a symbolic ceremony, to that one a sacrament suffused with almost Roman Catholic mysticism. The wine and unleavened bread used during the Holy Communion to one congregation will represent Blood & Body only for the few minutes of the service, to another congregation they remain Blood & Body forever after consecration (the Roman Catholic tenet). Those Protestant Episcopalians (in England...
Similarly, the committee on sacraments simply recommended "unity with diversity" for the universal Church. "We can unite in worship, we cannot unite in definition. . . . Each worshiper will receive the sacrament with the meaning that he himself attaches...