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Communion

noun

The act of participating in the celebration of the Eucharist. Synonyms: Holy Communion, manduction, sacramental manduction.

Sharing thoughts and feelings. Synonym: sharing.

(Christianity) a group of Christians with a common religious faith who practice the same rites.

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"Communion" Quotes from Famous Books

... him, "what sort of a communion have you?" "We have none like that thou hintest at among us," replied he. "How! no communion?" said I. "Only that spiritual one," replied he, "of hearts." He then began again to throw out his texts of Scripture; and preached a most eloquent sermon ...

— Letters on England • Voltaire

... Rites - one Western (Latin- Rite) and 22 Eastern. The Latin Rite is by far the largest, making up about 98% of Catholic membership. Eastern-Rite Churches, such as the Maronite Church and the Ukrainian Catholic Church, are in communion with Rome although they preserve their own worship traditions and their immediate hierarchy consists of clergy within their own rite. The Catholic Church has a comprehensive theological and moral doctrine specified ...

— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... means neither more nor less than a supreme faith in Nature. It means that there is a something in the Infinite outside ourselves that corresponds to a certain something within ourselves; that this latter something is the strongest and the highest part of us, and that it can find no rest but in communion with its larger counterpart. Truth sought for in this way is evidently a distinct thing from the truth of utilitarianism. It is no false reflection of human happiness in the clouds. For it is to be sought for none the less, as our positivists ...

— Is Life Worth Living? • William Hurrell Mallock

... to make me think you had a longing for self-communion or any foolishness of that sort! I know you, Azalea Thorpe! You ...

— Patty and Azalea • Carolyn Wells

... great poet against the illiberal attacks upon him, as if his embracing the Roman Catholick communion had been a time-serving measure, is a piece of reasoning at once able and candid. Indeed, Dryden himself, in his Hind and Panther, has given such a picture of his mind, that they who know the anxiety for repose as to the aweful subject of our state beyond ...

— Life Of Johnson, Volume 4 (of 6) • Boswell

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