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communion: see Eucharist Eucharist (y `kərĭst) [Gr...... Click the link for more information. ; Lord's Supper Lord's Supper, Protestant rite commemorating the Last Supper. In the Reformation the leaders generally rejected the traditional belief in the sacrament as a sacrifice and as an invisible miracle of the actual changing of the bread and wine into the body and blood of ..... Click the link for more information. . communion 1. a religious group or denomination having a common body of beliefs, doctrines, and practices 2. the spiritual union held by Christians to exist between individual Christians and Christ, their Church, or their fellow Christians Communion Christianity 1. the act of participating in the Eucharist 2. the celebration of the Eucharist, esp the part of the service during which the consecrated elements are received 3. a. the consecrated elements of the Eucharist b. (as modifier): Communion cup |
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More recently, it has been given for outstanding service within the Church of England whether centrally or in the dioceses, or the Anglican Communion as a whole, and also to those who have contributed to advancing relations between the various Christian communions and churches. I'm living proof of the limitations of researching this important religious rite of passage by asking adults to remember their First Communions. Was the cost justified by the use of the dress for the First Communions of the younger girls? |
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