Sentence examples for communion among from inspiring English sources

Fortunately you also experience the moments of fleeting communion among the characters with a luminous intensity that few productions can match.

William Robertson Smith, a Scottish Semitic scholar and encyclopaedist, marked a new departure with his theory that the original motive of sacrifice was an effort toward communion among the members of a group, on the one hand, and between them and their god, on the other.

The act of producing offspring, however, could never be wholly separated from the thought of death, so that the worshippers of Dionysus were aware of a mystic communion among the ancestors, the living generation, and the future members of the community.

"We Are Alive" draws a line between ghosts of oppressed strikers, civil-rights marchers, and workers, while the chorus is a kind of communion among the dead and a call to the living: "We are alive / And though our bodies lie alone here in the dark / Our spirits rise / To carry the fire and light the spark".

Sister M. Clare Millea, the American nun charged with overseeing the nationwide visitation, insisted it offered many opportunities for "reflection, dialogue and communion" among women religious, pastors and the faithful.

First, the ordination of women to the presbyterate and then to the episcopate in the last quarter of the 20th century resulted in an "impairment of communion" within and among the provinces of Anglicanism, and it further complicated the relationships between Protestant churches on the one hand and Catholic and Orthodox on the other.

The Episcopal Church acted despite a personal address at the start of the convention from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, who as head of the Church of England is considered "first among equals" among the communion's archbishops.

Reference [5] proposes tertiary control for power sharing among microgrids in a cluster and each microgrid has communication network communion to the secondary control.

Deacons can lead prayer services and may manage other pastoral duties if a priest is absent, but are barred from consecrating communion and hearing confessions, among other duties.

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The communiqué's idea of outside oversight for dissident Episcopal dioceses and the recent consecrations of bishops to serve breakaway congregations violated most bishops' notions of local authority and appropriate interactions among provinces of the communion, bishops said.