Sentence examples for breaking of bread from inspiring English sources

After fruitless attempts to derive a stated order of worship from the New Testament, Disciples settled into an informal but relatively stable pattern composed of hymns, extemporaneous prayers, Scripture, sermon, and breaking of bread.

Now came u spuntinu, the ritual breaking of bread, cheese, wine, Corsican sausages coppa, lonzu, prizuttu –and we soon found ourselves sprawled on the sun-warmed road through town, napping and chuckling in that loose lunacy hunting and fishing trips seem to generate.

Campbell regarded immersion and "the breaking of bread" (i.e., baptism and communion) as ordinances of Christ.

Common parallel examples to keeping animals for impractical reasons within Religious Studies are vegetarianism and communal breaking of bread.

At Tikkun Leil Shabbat, there's a joyfulness to the singing, the community, the breaking of bread together".

Howard and the two teams played down the breaking of bread, insisting that it was just that, and not breaking news.

The bread is used as a sacramental offering that, for Catholics and some other Christians, represents the breaking of the bread at the Last Supper and the body of Christ.

Under a variety of titles (Eucharist from the Greek eucharistia, "thanksgiving"; the Latin mass; the Holy Communion; the Lord's Supper; and the breaking of the bread) it has been the central act of worship ever since the night of the betrayal of Jesus on the Thursday preceding his crucifixion.

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year 5773, began on 16 September.The white tablecloth, the silver goblets and candlesticks, the reciting of Kiddush, the blessing over wine, and the breaking of the bread by my son-in-law, the passing round of apple slices with bowls of honey, the chanting of Hebrew hymns and prayers, give the New Year's Eve meal at my daughter Anna's a sacred character.

Holy Thursday: Today we get the sign in the breaking of the bread that the spirit of Christ is with us always if we live in human community and are dedicated to the teachings of Christ.

It is a community for which I am very grateful, so grateful that I don't want to put its non-Christian members out of my mind during the breaking of the bread.