The threat was not just to the Church of England, he explained, but the whole Anglican communion, and in particular its branches in the developing world.
"Tell me about it — last night I ate a whole sleeve of Communion wafers".
The whole concert was a communion between Abbado and his players of devastating intimacy and astonishing emotional bravery, which asked the most profound questions about what the musical experience, and even what life might be about, with its beginnings and unfinished endings, its questions and unfilled answers, its sounds and its silences.
For some, the whole experience is one long communion, without the wafer.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, the leader of the Church of England and spiritual head of the Anglican Communion, issued a warning in December that Bishop Glasspool's election "raises very serious questions not just for the Episcopal Church and its place in the Anglican Communion, but for the Communion as a whole".
"The whole issue was when receiving communion," he explains.
You'll be more connected to your heart and also feel a communion with the whole human family.
BL: It's a Communion residency, that's the whole point.
"I tied everyone's robe to the bench during my First Communion, and, when they stood up, the whole thing flew over," he said.
The roof over all saints who long ago had watched over my first communion vows at The Sacred Heart collapsed over the whole city.
