communion
IPA: kʌmjˈunjʌn
noun
- A joining together of minds or spirits; a mental connection.
- (Christianity) Holy Communion.
- (Roman Catholicism) A form of ecclesiastical unity between the Roman Church and another, so that the latter is considered part of the former.
- (Christianity) Alternative letter-case form of communion (“Holy Communion”) [A joining together of minds or spirits; a mental connection.]
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Examples of "communion" in Sentences
- For example, what about alcohol in communion wine?
- Is there an unbroken flow of such into what we call our communion?
- To live the Eucharist, is to enter in communion with Jesus Christ and as a consequence with His love.
- _time_ when communion is to be received, while they themselves must acknowledge, that they have _abolished communion_ itself as well as
- It knows that these winds are not the breath of the Holy Spirit; it knows that the Spirit of God is expressed and manifested in communion with Jesus Christ.
- If true, this would be absolutely thrilling news, and also show a possible canonical solution for the future status of the SSPX once, Deo volente, full communion is reestablished there as well.
- By its immense lever of association it alone is able to realize by a productive communion (_communion génératrice_) that great and beautiful social unity conceived by Jaurez, Saint-Simon, Owen, Fourier.
- In a telegram sent to the newly-elected Patriarch, the Pope wrote: May the Almighty bless your efforts to maintain communion among the Orthodox Churches and to seek that fullness of communion which is the goal of Catholic-Orthodox collaboration and dialogue.
- One of the facts which impresses itself on the mind of a minister of another communion is the extraordinary solidarity and continuousness in movement and in outlook of that great and splendid communion whose history is inwrought with so much that is best in the history of our people, I mean the Church of England.
- This being done, we proceed unto the communion, if any communicants be to receive the Eucharist; if not, we read the Decalogue, Epistle, and Gospel, with the Nicene Creed (of some in derision called the dry communion), and then proceed unto an homily or sermon, which hath a psalm before and after it, and finally unto the baptism of such infants as on every Sabbath day (if occasion so require) are brought unto the churches; and thus is the forenoon bestowed.
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