Sentence examples for communicants from inspiring English sources

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.

It required one key symbol for each message symbol, which meant that communicants would have to exchange an impractically large key in advance i.e., they had to securely exchange a key as large as the message they would eventually send.

The early growth of the church was largely the result of his strenuous efforts; when he arrived in America there were only three Methodist meetinghouses and about 300 communicants.

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.