One of Patten's grandsons was being prepared for his first communion, he said, and often parents were encouraged to take communion with their child.
In 1534, the city's religious leaders had been willing to make a private theological compromise with Amerbach that convinced him that he could receive the legally required Protestant communion with good conscience.
But Chairman Mao was probably not the last Chinese potentate who believed that his longevity required frequent sexual communion with much younger women.
The monarch was required to be in communion with the Church of England, and was its nominal head.
Constitutionally, the King was required to be in communion with the Church of England, but his proposed marriage conflicted with the Church's teachings.
In Russia, on the contrary, confessions remained a standard practice that was generally required before communion.
In the same essay, Achebe writes that carrying the full weight of African experience requires "a new English, still in full communion with its ancestral home but altered to suit its new African surroundings".
And this communion requires if I am going to be in communion with you that means I paradoxically have to be separate from you and have respect for your otherness, while at the same time staying open to being together.
If you are not in communion with Christ's teachings, you are not in communion with the Church and you cannot receive Communion.
No communion with the Parisian public.
