Then, with burning hearts, we are ready for Jesus to reveal himself to us as we break bread with him at Communion. |
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Albert recalls one of his father's rare visits to church during which he refused to receive Communion with the rest of the family. |
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Congratulations to all the children of the parish who received their first Holy Communion on Saturday. |
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At Communion time, I stayed with the priest until I thought all the parishioners had received Communion. |
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How far can membership of a Communion of churches help a local church to discern what are the crucial issues in its own situation? |
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He accompanied me without a word to the front of the church when the time came to receive Communion. |
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We regarded it as a presumption not to share the cup of the Lord at Communion with the people. |
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During those quiet days, I had time to reflect on the act of receiving Communion. |
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I know it instinctively, and often feel a sense of peace when people receive Communion. |
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Communicants returning to their pews will be asked to stand and sing until everyone has received Communion and the priest has sat down to pray. |
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It also organises an annual book fair, evening courses for parents, and refreshments after Communion and Confirmation. |
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Registered parishioners were more likely to attend Mass weekly, receive Communion, and participate in a variety of devotional activities. |
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It was once alleged that the provinces in the Communion were held together by the Book of Common Prayer. |
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Six boys received their First Communion in the Sacred Heart Church last Sunday. |
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Before retiring for the night, she received Communion, in accordance with her childhood religion. |
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It was worship, and was as essential to Communion as breaking the bread and drinking the cup. |
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With these few words, we can take on an attitude that says we want to receive all that our Father wants to give us at Communion. |
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In recent decades the practice has become widespread that everyone attending Mass receives Communion. |
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The Communion is made up of some thirty-eight provinces, most of which are in the Third World. |
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The king denied papal authority over England, and the Anglican Communion was born. |
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Congratulations to all the children from the parish who received their first Holy Communion. |
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On Christmas Day, there will be Holy Communion in Boyle at 10 am and at 11.30 am in Taunagh Parish Church, Riverstown. |
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Twenty-six boys and girls received their first Holy Communion last Saturday. |
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Instead, they hold Communion services where the Eucharist is distributed using previously consecrated hosts. |
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At the same time, diocesan leaders must work especially hard to make clear the differences between a Mass and a Communion service. |
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We believe that if he is consecrated, the unity of the Church of England and Anglican Communion will be disrupted. |
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American Episcopalians maintain stubborn resistance to warnings by the world Anglican Communion that they have recklessly broken fellowship. |
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Prior to the Mass the First Communion and Confirmation children, along with the priest, marched in procession into the field headed by a piper. |
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In a Communion made up of many different churches, discernment is required to identify what in any particular context are the crucial issues for the life of the Church. |
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Familiars actually dwelling in a monastery may receive their Easter Communion in the church or chapel of the monastery. |
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A manifest lack of proper disposition for Holy Communion is found to be present in those who consistently support pro-abortion legislation. |
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Aisling Young is eight, made her First Holy Communion in May and her granny plaited her hair for the occasion. |
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Or, if confession was allowed, the penitent was not allowed to receive Communion. |
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I put the paten on the altar and went around the communion rail to kneel down to receive Communion. |
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This music has enriched the musical diet of choral establishments, collegiate and cathedral, throughout the Anglican Communion. |
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Then we are ready for Jesus to reveal himself to us in the breaking of the bread during Communion. |
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The robbers also damaged the altar in an effort to steal the tabernacle, where the Communion host is kept. |
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It also gave a first-hand account of the priorities of conservative evangelicals within the Anglican Communion. |
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Preparations for First Holy Communion began at all Masses in the parish church last Sunday week. |
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Holy Communion is brought to the sick and housebound after the 9 a.m. Mass on the second and third Sunday of the month. |
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He believed in religious toleration but supported an established church, the Anglican Communion. |
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A charge was brought against him for celebrating Holy Communion in an unconsecrated building without a proper license. |
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Compared with the Book of Common Prayer, modern prayer books in the Anglican Communion are grossly overweight. |
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These children will receive their First Holy Communion in May. |
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In April, I attended the meeting of the primates of the Anglican Communion in my capacity as staff to the Presiding Bishop. |
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All housebound parishioners will be able to receive Holy Communion on Christmas Day from the Eucharistic Ministers. |
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As another example, we all know that when we receive Communion, we are receiving Jesus-body and blood, soul and divinity-and that he comes to live in us in a very special way. |
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It was the center spread photograph of the first Communion class in Basrah, Iraq, however, that gave the strongest argument. |
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I spent the entire night before my Communion in the bathroom hurling up my unworthiness. |
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Church doctrine holds that Communion wafers, like the bread served at the Last Supper, must have at least some unleavened wheat. |
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He broke the white wafer into small pieces and placed one in his mouth, whispering the rites of Communion. |
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In Spain, the dance is done to reverence the Blessed Sacrament, a consecrated wafer used in Communion. |
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So why should openly pro-choice politicians get to receive Jesus in the sacrament of Holy Communion? |
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Just the strains in the Anglican Communion Show that a house divided cannot stand. |
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As leader of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop faced growing demands on his time from Anglican churches abroad. |
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A year earlier, Communion had been denied to two women present at a conciliar liturgy, which attracted much attention in the press. |
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Further in front, children receiving their First Communion displayed a mixture of decorous behaviour and occasional outbursts of cheerful chanting in praise of their hero. |
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From the formality of the opening procession to the intimacy of Communion, God wants to fill our hearts and minds with his truth, his love, and his power. |
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It is an issue that threatens to tear asunder the world-wide Anglican Communion and it may even cause a split in the Church of Ireland, both North and South. |
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Those who are conscious of being in a state of grave sin should avail themselves of the sacrament of reconciliation before coming to Holy Communion. |
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According to the ritual of Communion established during the late twelfth century, it is the gesture of elevation that marks the moment of the Eucharist's transubstantiation. |
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Nor is the one of him in a white suit holding a banner from his first Holy Communion. |
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It is important that we go to confession and receive Holy Communion, attend Mass and visit the cemetery to gain a plenary indulgence for the Holy Souls. |
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The white missionary was very proud of him and he was one of the first men in Umuofia to receive the sacrament of Holy Communion, or Holy Feast as it was called in Ibo. |
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A fervent believer as a boy, he broke with the church as an adolescent, pettishly refusing his mother's dying request that he make his confession and take Communion. |
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He told us to recite the Confiteor and then he gave us Holy Communion. |
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The Communion recognizes the leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who presides over the decennial Lambeth Conference, the principal meeting of Anglican bishops. |
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With great joy I received the announcement of Your Beatitude's election to the Patriarchal See of Alexandria for Copts and your request for Ecclesiastical Communion. |
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Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without Church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without contrition. |
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Williams became Archbishop of Canterbury at a particularly difficult time in the relations of the churches of the Anglican Communion. |
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The Porvoo Communion is a communion of episcopally led Lutheran and Anglican churches in Europe. |
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The Porvoo Communion is a communion of 15 mainly northern European Anglican and Lutheran churches. |
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There are also conferences and meetings organized to discuss issues of concern to the entire Communion. |
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The Mar Thoma Church is in communion relationship with the Anglican Communion. |
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Since 1960 the church has been in full communion with the Episcopal Church in the United States, and through it, the entire Anglican Communion. |
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The Anglican Church of Korea is among the more liberal provinces in the Anglican Communion. |
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This decision violates our Biblical faith and agreements within the Anglican Communion. |
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The FCE has been involved in the realignments within the Anglican Communion. |
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Continuing Anglican churches have generally been formed by clergy and lay people who left churches belonging to the Anglican Communion. |
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This is no longer the case, as the Archbishop of York, together with the rest of the Church of England, is a member of the Anglican Communion. |
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We should pause, even for a moment, to do a soul-searching exercise before participating in Communion. |
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The Anglican Communion and religion in general have been steeped in controversy and division for centuries. |
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Only three of the 38 provinces within the Anglican Communion have ordained female bishops, though it is possible in about 11 others. |
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I knew that while the Episcopal Church is one of America's most liberal denominations, the Anglican Communion is overwhelmingly conservative. |
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The Anglican church in Nigeria is the largest province in the 77 million-member Anglican Communion. |
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Communion practices vary by denomination and even by individual parishes. |
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If not, why should the church deny Communion to segregationists but not pro-abortion politicians? |
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Welby added that Anglicans need to look at challenges in the Communion in the light of their charism and vocation. |
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On Maundy Thursday, we use a special Communion Altar Parament handmade by parish members of the former Holy Trinity Polish Lutheran Church. |
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St James Parish Church Holy Communion service for Passion Sunday was led by Rev Robin Townsend, assisted by Raymond Denton. |
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Though they depend chiefly on donations, they also have a gift shop in which they sell handsewn Communion veils, as well as cards and rosaries. |
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To keep the service short and in anticipation of a small congregation, she instituted Communion by Intinction. |
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A Service of Holy Communion by intinction was offered first to the bridal party and then to the congregation. |
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Communion was celebrated monthly and congregational singing of the psalms was encouraged. |
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An enameled miniature of Christ is set in the center of a jeweled alabaster paten, the plate that holds the bread during Communion services. |
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It forms part of the Anglican Communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury acting as its symbolic worldwide head. |
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The Anglican Communion has no official legal existence nor any governing structure which might exercise authority over the member churches. |
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Individual UU member churches maintain a degree of autonomy, similar to the practice of the Anglican Communion. |
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Since there is no binding authority in the Anglican Communion, these international bodies are a vehicle for consultation and persuasion. |
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All 38 provinces of the Anglican Communion are autonomous, each with its own primate and governing structure. |
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A special grouping are the Anglican churches descended from the Church of England and organized in the Anglican Communion. |
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The Church of England is also the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. |
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He is the focus of unity for the worldwide Anglican Communion of independent national or regional churches. |
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Wafers, as opposed to ordinary baker's bread, were to be used as the bread at Communion. |
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The Mass was still celebrated in some places alongside the new Communion service but was more difficult than before. |
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As the name suggests, the churches of the Anglican Communion are linked by bonds of tradition, affection, and common loyalty. |
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Within these Communion provinces may exist subdivisions, called ecclesiastical provinces, under the jurisdiction of a metropolitan archbishop. |
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All provinces of the Anglican Communion consist of dioceses, each under the jurisdiction of a bishop. |
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He hosts and chairs the Lambeth Conferences of Anglican Communion bishops, and decides who will be invited to them. |
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He also hosts and chairs the Anglican Communion Primates' Meeting and is responsible for the invitations to it. |
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He acts as president of the secretariat of the Anglican Communion Office, and its deliberative body, the Anglican Consultative Council. |
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Most ordained ministers in the Anglican Communion are priests, who usually work in parishes within a diocese. |
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In some other parts of the Anglican Communion the position can also be held by deacons. |
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Many provinces of the Anglican Communion ordain both men and women as deacons. |
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Continuing churches have generally been formed by people who have left the Anglican Communion. |
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They disagreed with one another concerning the presence of Christ and his body and blood in Holy Communion. |
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The great majority of Anglicans are members of churches which are part of the international Anglican Communion, which has 85 million adherents. |
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Several provinces of the Anglican Communion in Asia have merged with Protestant churches. |
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While the church's prescribed attendance was only three times a year, they took Communion every Sunday. |
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In a 2012 radio interview, she said that she was a member of the Scottish Episcopal Church, a province of the Anglican Communion. |
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After the Communion service is interrupted, the anthem Come, Holy Ghost is recited, as a prelude to the act of anointing. |
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Helena belong to the Anglican Communion and are members of the Diocese of St Helena, which has its own bishop and includes Ascension Island. |
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As such, the church is a member of the World Communion of Reformed Churches. |
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The Scottish Episcopal Church is the member church of the Anglican Communion in Scotland. |
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The Church in Wales was one of the first members of the Anglican Communion to adopt synodical government. |
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It is an independent member of the Anglican Communion as are the Church of Ireland and the Scottish Episcopal Church. |
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The Churches of the Anglican Communion are linked by affection and common loyalty. |
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In 1999, the church voted to prohibit the flying of flags other than St Patrick's flag and the Flag of the Anglican Communion. |
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There is no connection between the term 'High Kirk' and the term 'High Church', which is a type of Churchmanship within the Anglican Communion. |
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Most are not part of the World Communion of Reformed Churches because of its ecumenial attire. |
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On Communion Sundays thousands of the members of the seiadau would travel there to receive the sacrament. |
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He was a real out-worlder, a wild man from one of the rough-and-tumble planets of the Zardalu Communion. |
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Singing by all the faithful during the Communion procession is encouraged, to highlight the communitarian nature of the Communion bread. |
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Many of the network of churches they established became the Anglican Communion. |
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After his Communion he gave the Eucharist to the Pope who was sitting in bed. |
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The Anglican Communion distinguishes between full communion and intercommunion. |
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In many parishes of the Anglican Communion the Eucharist is celebrated every Sunday, having replaced Morning Prayer as the principal service. |
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Daily celebrations are the norm in many cathedrals and parish churches sometimes offer one or more services of Holy Communion during the week. |
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Most Baptists consider the Communion to be primarily an act of remembrance of Christ's atonement, and a time of renewal of personal commitment. |
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In the more modern groups, Communion is only the serving of the Lord's Supper. |
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Over the last half a century it is much more common in Presbyterian churches to have Holy Communion monthly or on a weekly basis. |
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Member churches of the Anglican Communion are often referred to as provinces. |
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Those who use the BAS have cited various shortcomings as it ages and newer liturgies are produced elsewhere in the Communion. |
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In recent years the ACC has been a leading progressive force within the Anglican Communion. |
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She is the first and, currently, the only woman to become a primate in the Anglican Communion. |
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Schori's election was controversial in the wider Anglican Communion because not all of the communion recognizes the ordination of women. |
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News of Robinson's election caused a crisis in both the American church and the wider Anglican Communion. |
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Since there is no binding authority in the Communion, these international bodies are a vehicle for consultation and persuasion. |
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Even today, there is no unanimity of doctrine or practice in the Anglican Communion as it relates to women's ordination. |
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The Scottish Episcopal Church was formally incorporated in 1712, and it more recently became part of the Anglican Communion. |
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Among Cranmer's innovations, retained in the new book was the requirement of weekly Holy Communion services. |
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For example, the inclusion in the intercessions of the Communion rite of prayer for the dead was proposed and rejected. |
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The Church of Ireland has a similar declaration for its clergy, while some other churches of the Anglican Communion make no such requirement. |
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No specific edition of the Prayer Book is therefore binding for the entire Communion. |
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The Lambeth Conference is a decennial assembly of bishops of the Anglican Communion convened by the Archbishop of Canterbury. |
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The resolution came at a time of rapid expansion of the Anglican Communion, primarily in the territories of the British Empire. |
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Over the years, various parallel Anglican denominations have broken with Anglican Communion churches over many, sometimes transient, issues. |
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Unlike the Anglican realignment movement, the churches of the Anglican Continuum do not seek to be accepted into the Anglican Communion. |
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None of these was listed by the Anglican Communion office as being part of the Province of the Southern Cone. |
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The report recommended a covenant for the Anglican Communion, an idea that did not come to fruition. |
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This commission studied the state of unity in the Anglican Communion in light of the developments in the United States and Canada. |
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However, since the late 1960s, Anglicans have discussed and debated several plans for greater integration of the Anglican Communion. |
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For example, at the new service we offer Communion by intinction. |
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Michael Jackson, Archbishop of Dublin, said the appointment brings delight to many across the Church of Ireland and throughout the Anglican Communion. |
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He was above all wise, in the biblical sense, with a great heart for the diversity of the Anglican Communion, across all its cultures, and with all its theological tensions. |
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General Synods of other churches within the Anglican Communion. |
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Blair was reprimanded by Cardinal Basil Hume in 1996 for receiving Holy Communion at Mass, while still an Anglican, in contravention of canon law. |
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Some provinces of the Anglican Communion have begun ordaining women as bishops in recent decades for example, the United States, New Zealand, Canada and Cuba. |
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The nature of the Anglican Communion is such that not all churches or dioceses must agree on all issues in order to share a common faith and baptism. |
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Beside its membership in the Porvoo Communion, Church of Sweden also has declared full communion with the Philippine Independent Church and the United Methodist Church. |
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He also attracted criticism from elements of the Anglican Communion. |
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In 2003, Archbishop Robin Eames, the Anglican Primate of All Ireland, was appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury as Chairman of the Lambeth Commission on Communion. |
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The term Anglican realignment refers to a movement among some Anglicans to align themselves under new or alternative oversight within or outside the Anglican Communion. |
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The bishops then moved Lambeth for the First Session on 2 July, after Holy Communion at which Tait presided and Thomson of York preached, the bishops gathered in the library. |
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In the Church of England he is celebrated with a Lesser Festival on 3 November and the same day is also observed in the Calendars of other parts of the Anglican Communion. |
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A completely new revision was finished in 1929 and several alternative orders of the Communion service and other services have been prepared since then. |
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The words at the administration of Communion which, in the prayer book of 1549 described the Eucharistic species as 'The body of our Lorde Jesus Christe. |
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In the Anglican Communion, synods are elected by clergy and laity. |
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In the Eucharist or Holy Communion service, the Book of Common Prayer specifies that bread and wine are consecrated for consumption by the people. |
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The first Church of England service was a celebration of Holy Communion at Frobisher Bay around 3 September 1578 by the chaplain on Martin Frobisher's voyage to the Arctic. |
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His title is an acknowledgement of his historic significance and of his privilege to serve as primary spokesman for the Eastern Orthodox Communion. |
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However, with the rise of confessionalism, some Baptists have denied the Zwinglian doctrine of mere memorialism and have taken up a Reformed view of Communion. |
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The ordinary of such an archdiocese is an archbishop, however, especially in the Anglican Communion, not all archbishops' dioceses are called archdioceses. |
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A Prayer After Communion is then proclaimed by the priest while all stand. |
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The Church of England agreed, and that view continues today throughout the Lutheran Church, the worldwide Anglican Communion, and many other denominations. |
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The ordinance of Holy Communion, or the Lord's Supper, is seen as a direct command given by Jesus at the Last Supper, to be done in remembrance of him. |
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Pryce Davies preaching on the necessity of partaking of Holy Communion Harris came to the conviction that he had received mercy through the blood of Christ. |
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The Scottish Episcopal Church was previously called the Episcopal Church in Scotland, reflecting its role as the Scottish province of the Anglican Communion. |
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It is one of two flags authorised to be flown on church grounds by the Church of Ireland, the other being the Compass Rose Flag of the Anglican Communion. |
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The Church in Wales is also a member of the Porvoo Communion. |
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The Communion service interrupted earlier is resumed and completed. |
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The Alleluia verse, together with the closing Alleluia, normally form an item in themselves, while the Offertory and the Communion are set as they stand. |
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In strictly applying the rubrics of the Book of Common Prayer, Wesley denied her Communion after she failed to signify to him in advance her intention of taking it. |
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At the same time, attendance at church services and Communion increased over the course of nearly two years in which he served as Savannah's parish priest. |
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The 1795 Plan of Pacification permitted Methodist chapels to celebrate Holy Communion where both a majority of trustees and a majority of the stewards and leaders allowed it. |
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Along with primacy over the Archbishop of York, the Archbishop of Canterbury also has a precedence of honour over the other bishops of the Anglican Communion. |
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The biggest Reformed association is the World Communion of Reformed Churches with more than 80 million members in 211 member denominations around the world. |
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The Church of England is the officially established religious institution in England, and also the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. |
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In the 1920s, the Church in Wales became independent from the Church of England and became 'disestablished' but remains in the Anglican Communion. |
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British Protestant missionaries who travelled around the globe often in advance of soldiers and civil servants spread the Anglican Communion to all continents. |
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All international bodies are consultative and collaborative, and their resolutions are not legally binding on the autonomous provinces of the Communion. |
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The Anglican Communion has no international juridical organisation. |
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Anglicans celebrate the traditional sacraments, with special emphasis being given to the Eucharist, also called Holy Communion, the Lord's Supper or the Mass. |
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As a noun, an Anglican is a member of a church in the Anglican Communion. |
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The churches of the Anglican Communion have traditionally held that ordination in the historic episcopate is a core element in the validity of clerical ordinations. |
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Those who objected condemned these actions as unscriptural, unilateral, and without the agreement of the Communion prior to these steps being taken. |
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With the expansion of the British Empire, and hence the growth of Anglicanism outside Great Britain and Ireland, the Communion sought to establish new vehicles of unity. |
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The Communion is held together by a shared history, expressed in its ecclesiology, polity and ethos and also by participation in international consultative bodies. |
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There is an Anglican Communion Office in London, under the aegis of the Archbishop of Canterbury, but it only serves in a supporting and organisational role. |
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