"communion host" is a perfectly acceptable phrase to use in written English.
It is often used to refer to someone who presides over a Christian communion service or the bread that is blessed and shared during such a service. For example: "The Reverend Smith served as our communion host for the special service."
The pyx is a religious object used to hold the Communion host or holy oil for baptisms or last rites.
Accordingly, Zwingli held that Jesus was spiritually but not physically present in the communion host, whereas Luther taught that Jesus was really and bodily present.
Ishida-san himself brought dessert – a kogyoku apple from Gunma prefecture, cooked in thin slices and as light as a communion host.
In the city of Dijon in the early 15th century, a large communion host embossed with an image of Jesus as judge was suddenly seen to be bleeding.
The nuns take turns adoring the perpetual display of the Blessed Sacrament, the body and blood of Jesus in the form of the communion host.
Unfettered by tubes and unpestered by hovering medics, he reminisced and made some amends, exchanged jokes and assurances of love with his family, received Catholic rites and managed to swallow a communion host that was probably his last meal.
Congress and the United Nations rolling out their red carpets, nuns working overtime to bake communion hosts, prison inmates carving a walnut throne, tickets for events snapped up in seconds: America is gearing up for pope-mania.
Even existing orders bristle at the contents of Cavanagh's marketing, which they seem to see as redefining the meaning of communion hosts in their financial favor.
Personally, I think he joined for the votes and not the great tasting communion hosts served with wine spritzers at the end of Mass.
The letter validates the continued practice that "low gluten" communion hosts, such as that made by the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, are still acceptable to the Church.
She suffers from celiac disease, an obscure but increasingly diagnosed condition that strikes the small intestine, and even the trace amount of wheat in the communion wafer, or host, can make her ill.
