communion
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By tomorrow, in communion with millions of others, they will be able to say: "I saw it!"
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
And yet fans suspend their cynicism for a few hours — for a tournament, for a season — because they know that the communion that soccer offers is pure and holy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
“Don’t do this, let’s try to live the communion of the Church,” the pope said last month, adding that “division among Christians is a painful point.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
It means a baptised follower is "out of communion" with the Church - meaning they cannot receive the sacraments, for example going to confession, or get married within the Roman Catholic Church.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
It felt as if we were one, but also that each of us had a personal communion with God.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
He attended Catholic school and remembers an active community in Mobile filled with baptisms, weddings and first communions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
Orthodox Christianity is one of the largest Christian communions in the world — after Catholicism and the Protestant church.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 24, 2022
In mid-March, the Amsterdam church became one of at least 160 Orthodox parishes worldwide that have sought to break ties with the Moscow Patriarchate and join other Orthodox communions.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2022
"Birthdays, communions, whatever it is - it was all taken away," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2021
The average attendance at mass on Sundays is about 5,000, and the average number of communions for the last two years has been about 45,000 annually.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
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