Sentence examples for are not in communion with from inspiring English sources

If you are not in communion with Christ's teachings, you are not in communion with the Church and you cannot receive Communion.

"Those who in their lives follow this path of evil, as mafiosi do, are not in communion with God.

Although various families of Protestant churches formed themselves (Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican), they usually were not in full ecclesiastical communion with each other; the separating factors were chiefly differences over the presence of Christ in the Lord's Supper and over the pastoral and governmental structures of the church.

John was ordained as a deacon in 381 by Saint Meletius of Antioch who was not then in communion with Alexandria and Rome.

That 1964 visit was the first step in overcoming 1,000 years of bitter conflict between the two oldest branches of Christianity, although the two churches are not yet in full communion with each other.

Pope Benedict XVI signed a theological report, years in the making, that effectively demoted limbo, a place neither in heaven nor in hell, where unbaptized babies would not be in communion with God but would nonetheless enjoy eternal happiness.

The monarch was required to be in communion with the Church of England, and was its nominal head.

"We should declare ourselves not in communion with this and suffer the consequences".

Inner freedom is only possible when our lives are in communion with God.

"Christians believe that we are in communion with the living and the dead.

Christian freedom is being in communion with God.