Sentence examples for communicant from inspiring English sources

Rousseau may well have received the inspiration for that belief from Mme de Warens; for although she had become a communicant of the Roman Catholic Church, she retained and transmitted to Rousseau much of the sentimental optimism about human purity that she had herself absorbed as a child from the mystical Protestant Pietists who were her teachers in the canton of Bern.

The term is unofficially and inaccurately used to describe the Lutheran doctrine of the Real Presence; namely, that the body and blood of Christ are present to the communicant "in, with, and under" the elements of bread and wine.

Thus symbolically identified, the communicant was inspired to speak in the first person, thereby giving birth to the art of drama.

The secret of a good Christmas church experience for the regular communicant is to smile forgivingly at the people you seem not to recall having seen since last Christmas.

This teaching of the real presence is intended to emphasize the intimate relationship between Jesus and the communicant.

If he gets back a cipher that decrypts to his challenge message using d to decrypt it, he will know that it was in all probability created by someone knowing e and hence that the other communicant is probably A. Digitally signing a message is a more complex operation and requires a cryptosecure "hashing" function.

The presiding minister says to the Anglican communicant as he offers the sacraments: The Body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for thee, preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life: Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee, and feed on him in thy heart by faith with thanksgiving.

But the Church of England's situation is especially difficult because it is burdened with an expensive, unwieldy administrative structure and lots of beloved, old but expensive buildings.Between 1990 and 2001, the church lost 18% of its Sunday communicants, 17% of its clergy (none of them bishops)—and 1% of its buildings.

In Bohemia, Jan Hus, who became rector of the University of Prague, used that school as his base to criticize lax clergy and the recent prohibition of offering the cup of wine to communicants.

Hus's enemies then renewed his trial at the Curia, where he was declared under major excommunication for refusing to appear and an interdict was pronounced over Prague or any other place where Hus might reside, thereby denying certain sacraments of the church to communicants in the interdicted area.

Les Vases communicants (1932; "The Communicating Vessels") and L'Amour fou (1937; "Mad Love") explored the connection between dream and reality.