Sentences with phrase «communion elements»
"Communion elements" refers to the bread and wine that are used during the Christian religious practice called communion or the Lord's Supper. It symbolizes the body and blood of Jesus Christ and is shared among believers as a way to remember his sacrifice and to connect with God. Full definition
Subway and Starbucks are great communion elements.
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My point is that the priest did her a favor by not giving her the communion elements.
Moreover, now the communion elements represent not Christ's passion but «our creative powers,» which are transformed into expressions of Jesus Christ; now the breaking of the bread is not the point but the prelude to the point: «When we the committed loving people gather to let the pieces of Christ be reassembled in us» we have «our most powerful statement of wholism» (Thomas N. and Sharon N. Emswiler, Wholeness in Worship).
Our pastors did not wear funny suits, they did not dress in clericals, make hand signs over the communion elements, bow, or do any of those things that might be mistaken as Catholic and not Lutheran.
From Suzannah:, Why is it so important to believe that the communion elements are the literal body and blood of Jesus?