Sentence examples for communion in which from inspiring English sources

The result is an increasingly farcical communion in which no one works together.

He is a president of the Network for Inter Faith Concerns in the Anglican communion, in which I am also involved.

Both Anglicans and Catholics say that dialogue aimed at full communion — in which the two churches work toward mending the rift of the Reformation — has grown nearly impossible since the Church of England opened the way for female bishops.

And then all hell broke loose – with English conservatives, fearing they were about to lose the gay argument back home, cleverly re-inventing the C of E as part of the worldwide communion in which they form a natural majority.

The church is so polarised about homosexuality that it is difficult to see what the centre might be of a Communion in which a Canadian bishop blesses the same-sex unions a Ugandan bishop thinks deserve the death penalty.

In the West the church is viewed in terms of mediation (for the bestowing of grace) and authority (for guaranteeing security in doctrine); in the East the church is regarded as a communion in which God and the individual meet once again and a personal experience of divine life becomes possible.

Moreover, it implies not a financial transaction, like a commission, but a musical communion, one in which two individuals have shared ideas, influence and genuine sentiment.

Equally impressive but less celebrated (partly because for a long time it was only available in a heavily censored version), Diary of a Lost Girl begins with the 16-year-old Thymian, daughter of a middle-aged pharmacist, being given a leatherbound diary as a first communion present, in which she records her life of shame and humiliation.

He reminds us that our food is symbolic of what we believe in, and that eating is how we demonstrate to ourselves and to others our beliefs: Catholics take communion -- in which food and drink represent body and blood.

That memory, with its twinge of pain, has been present for me at every Communion service in which I have taken part ever since.

At the peak of the movement, Father Divine would host massive "holy communion banquets," in which his thousands of followers would converge to him speak on topics from banning capital punishment to ending racial discrimination.