Those who had not partaken
of the communion bread.
What about the taste
of communion bread, hot tea, chocolate, tears?
A lonely loaf
of communion bread with no one sharing it.
Not exact matches
At Ettal, Bonhoeffer could go to Mass and share in the prayers and readings, but, as he was not a member
of the Catholic Church, he could not partake
of the
bread and wine at
communion.
Peyote is the focus
of the worship service, much as the consecrated
bread and wine are the focus
of mass and
communion.
Then like these men I wonder anxiously where life is leading me... May this
communion of bread with the Christ clothed in the powers which dilate the world free me from my timidities and my heedlessness!
Then also you can Iphone stations
of the cross ($ 5 use your Visa), I phone light a candle ($ 1.75 via Amazon), Iphone Bapstism ($ 100), Iphone confessions ($ 25), I phone wedding ($ 300), Iphone bless your crops and livestock ($ 100), Iphone indulgences ($ 15 / ea), Iphone
communion ($ 10 you supply your own
bread..
As for the Lord's Supper, it began so simply that at first every meal where disciples ate together was a sacred
communion, and their ordinary
bread and wine were memorials
of their Lord's sacrifice.
Where freedom
of religion is allowed but not governed by a public theology, the sharing at the
communion rail has little chance
of being translated into the sharing
of bread and drink with the hungry and thirsty.
When I talk to my good friend who is a very conservative Catholic who views taking
communion as sacred and every crumb is representative
of Christ's body and not one crumb will drop... then compare it to how we do it at church... everyone ripping
bread from the same loaf, crumbs everywhere, kids spilling the «wine»... does it really matter... is one more right than the other... one upholds church law on how
communion will be performed versus our laid back version.
However, by the end
of the year, the church council forced Calvin to resign his position and leave Geneva because he wanted to force church members to sign his doctrinal statement and articles
of church organization (which few people wanted to do), and because he refused to serve
communion with unleavened
bread on Easter Sunday.
Is it not liturgically confusing to say to one communicant that partaking
of a single element —
bread — is adequate
communion, while saying to other brothers and sisters that both elements are important and that the second one absolutely must have alcohol in it?
I gave her
communion awkwardly; a tiny sip
of wine mixed with a shaved bit
of bread was all
of the Body
of Christ she could manage.
By breaking
of bread, do you mean a meal, or
communion?
Those who heard Peter's preaching were baptised, and — again in the words
of Scripture — «they continued steadfastly in the teaching
of the apostles and in the
communion of the breaking
of bread and in prayers... praising God and being in favour with all the people» (Acts 2:41 - 47).
Note: It should be taken for granted that I count my complementarian friends as dear brothers and sisters in Christ and would break the
bread of communion with any fellow Christian in a heartbeat.
Some
of us have this experience more vividly when we meet together for the breaking
of the
bread, as in our moving and memorable evening
communion just now.
Candidate Trump admits never asking for forgiveness, doesn't repent when he goes astray, and refers to
communion bread as «my little cracker» as Rachel Zoll
of the Associated Press points out.
I would break the
bread of communion with them in a heartbeat!
Therefore we hear in I Corinthians 10:18: «The
bread we break, is it not
communion with the body
of Christ?»
Catholics also consider
communion as literally making the juice and
bread become the actual body
of Christ.
This is the presence
of God, this is the holy moment, the cathedral, the great moment
of surrender and selflessness happening not in the leper colony
of India but for me in my own living room in Canada, the breaking
of bread and daily manna
of communion through a messy home with messy people, learning to love and take joy even when the toast is getting cold.
An ad uploaded in a make - your - own - Super-Bowl-ad competition featured a priest swapping out
communion bread for Doritos and wine for Pepsi - which owns Doritos and sponsored the contest - in hopes
of boosting church attendance.
As much as I oppose Driscoll's bullying behavior, I sincerely hope that this brother in Christ — who is beloved by God and with whom I would break the
bread of communion in a heartbeat — will find his way.
Given my belief that
communion wine can be validly consecrated into the Blood
of Christ, and
communion bread into the Body
of Christ, we can now cue all the folks who will make jokes about cannibalism, etc. (just as the Romans did about early Christians — very little anti-Christian humor is original).
The
bread which we break, is it not the
communion of the body
of Christ?
On the question
of communion under both kinds, Luther found himself counselling moderation and gradualism, against Karlstadt's thesis that it was actually sinful not to take the wine as well as the
bread.
Whenever he baked
communion bread for his church, he would bring extra loaves to those
of us at the seminary, and he'd add insights from his devotional readings
of Henry David Thoreau, W. H. Auden and Wendell Berry.
It displays two parts that form a fundamental unity: the gathering, the liturgy
of the Word, with readings, homily and general intercessions; the liturgy
of the Eucharist, with presentation
of bread and wine, the consecratory thanksgiving, and
communion» (CCC1346).
Now, I absolutely believe that Christian unity is important, and I would break the
bread of communion in a heartbeat with folks like Mark Driscoll or John Piper whose views on gender roles I oppose.
Taking
communion is just breaking the Shabbat
Bread and at Sundown people should be breaking the
bread and blessing it and the cup
of wine no matter with a group
of people or not
History does tell us that Panforte dates from the 12th century and, although stories differ, most agree that Nuns (hence the use
of communion wafers) were the first to make this delicious
bread... Recipe for Panforte
«Whether it's a Catholic child seeing the
communion bread and wine, a Jewish child hearing the Hebrew prayers, or a Hindu child smelling the incense in the temple, by experiencing rituals kids come to appreciate the predictability
of a religious service, if not the deeper meaning.»
Ignoring her talk
of the devil, I unpacked the clump
of old
bread, the gleanings
of the day's begging, and Liza sliced it into pieces thin as
communion wafer.
The WCCW invites Hammer visitors to break
bread in
communion and friendship to examine ideas
of locality, place making, and friendship in a convivial setting.