Sentence examples for of a communion from inspiring English sources

In the end, Mr. Golway said, "all of these groups were of a communion — they were Catholics, and shared the sacraments and other hallmarks of Catholic spirituality".

And while it may be impious and weird of me to liken the faintly starchy aroma of a good paper card to that of a communion wafer, that is the association that leaps to this nonbeliever's mind.

Serkin's reverence for music went along with a dislike of the recording process; his concerts embodied the intense concentration that his musical commitment demanded, and they had the sense of a communion.

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.

The second opposition came from acculturated Jews in western Europe and North America who believed that Jews are part of larger secular polities and that their role in them should be that of a communion of like-minded religious believers, similar to that of the Catholic and Protestant denominations.

As adapted by the book writers Cheri and Bill Steinkellner and scored by Alan Menken (music) and Glenn Slater (lyrics), this sentimental story of a bad girl showing the good sisters how to get down has all the depth of a communion wafer, and possibly a little less bite.

A new thing of makeup is a bomb of meaning, a communion with a kind of girlness that's far beyond our vajoogles.

For her, music itself is a means of creating a communion.

I pray that such moments remind them that a celebration of one life actually reflects a communion of people with power and love much larger than themselves.

All of this must be considered when we speak of race, and those conversations cannot be a communion of the aggrieved.

For Roethke and Wright both hoped that poetry could be a communion of souls, beyond or below the level of literature.