Sentences with phrase «holy communion there»
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There is now an opportunity to exercise that love in a way that not only will restore communion between two ancient churches but will demonstrate that all Orthodox Christians truly do belong to one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church.
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It is not being holy and righteous, it is about being able to examine oneself spiritually and truthfully to see if there is any sin that prevents them from having that communion with God in their life.
At one extreme there are many conservative Christians, both in sects and in the major communions, who, because of their belief in the authority and inerrancy of Holy Scripture, still look expectantly to a future point in time when the world will come to a sudden end and when, at the Judgment which follows, there will be a general resurrection of all the dead in some bodily form.
When full communion among all Christians is realized, nobody will feel a need to speak of the Roman Catholic Church, and there will certainly be no talk of «returning» to Rome, for then there will be, quite simply and comprehensively, the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.
In the Athanasian Creed, that ancient canticle of Christian faith still found in the service books of many Christian communions, there is a fine statement which gives the proper setting for any discussion of Christian worship and, a fortiori, for a discussion of the central act of Christian worship, the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, the Eucharist, the Holy Communion, the Divine Mysteries, the Liturgy, the Mass — call it what you will.
In the chapter entitled «Of the Catholic and Holy Church of God, and of the One Only Head of the Church,» we hear over and over the insistence that there is only one church, that it has always existed and always will, as an assembly of the faithful, the communion of saints.
There are only female first communion children, only a woman Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion (falsely called Eucharistic Minister) and the only single parent shown is a woman.