Sentence examples for communion from inspiring English sources

Although their plans to spend their early retirement travelling were never realised, Dad remained benign and smiling, still enjoying music and sport, looking forward to the Olympics, receiving holy communion each week at home, much loved by his 10 grandchildren, six children and devoted wife and, at 73, nowhere near ready to die.

This is an unflinching portrait of an England quite unlike George Orwell's idealised nation of "old maids bicycling to holy communion", let alone John Major's "invincible green suburbs".

For members of the Apple communion, such a message has much the same status as a text from the Vatican would have for devout Catholics.

The only alcohol usually served in church is a sip of nasty communion wine.

This, he concludes, is one sign of some inner communion with what he calls "the life force".

And handed round like communion.

It was proposed that the woes of conservative communities who feel trapped in liberal dioceses should be addressed by a Communion-wide "pastoral forum" overseen by Mr Williams.In this section Passing the baton Flying cars The high price of togetherness Anyone for Schadenfreude?

The very fact that each man rooted his position in religious belief probably made the chemistry even worse.Lambeth Palace has a new incumbent, who will be formally enthroned on March 21st as head of the Church of England, and hence of the global Anglican Communion.

No wonder that African conservatives sense that their terms for continuing partnership with free-wheeling Americans have not been met.This week's proposals for an Anglican Communion of two (or more) tiers sound like an attempt to recognise reality rather than to shape it.

Most Indian Christians are dalits, at the bottom of the caste system, once known as "untouchables".Mr Pannalal, whose own church belongs to the Anglican Communion, regrets the proselytising style of some pastors, and their habit of ripping into Hindu gods from the pulpit.

The 650-odd bishops who attended the once-a-decade Lambeth conference went home with open schism between the liberal and conservative wings of the worldwide Anglican Communion averted.