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  2. Communion of saints - Wikipedia

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    Revelation 5:8 presents the saints in Heaven as linked by prayer with their fellow Christians on earth. The communion of saints (Latin: commūniō sānctōrum, Ancient Greek: κοινωνίᾱ τῶν Ἁγῐ́ων, romanized: koinōníā tôn Hagíōn), when referred to persons, is the spiritual union of the members of the Christian Church, living and the dead, but excluding the damned. [1]

  3. Spiritual communion - Wikipedia

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    Spiritual communion is a Christian practice of desiring union with Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. ... where it has been highly recommended by many saints, ...

  4. Eucharist in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    Eucharist (Koinē Greek: εὐχαριστία, romanized: eucharistía, lit. 'thanksgiving') [1] is the name that Catholic Christians give to the sacrament by which, according to their belief, the body and blood of Christ are present in the bread and wine consecrated during the Catholic eucharistic liturgy, generally known as the Mass. [2]

  5. What is All Saints Day and how do people celebrate it? - AOL

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    All Saints Day is a Christian holiday that typically falls on Nov. 1. People celebrate with Mass, prayer and sometimes dress up as saints. ... There is also a communion of saints, which is the ...

  6. Koinonia - Wikipedia

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    The communion of saints is the relationship that, according to the belief of Christians, exists between them as people made holy by their link with Christ. That this relationship extends not only to those still in earthly life, but also to those who have gone past death to be "away from the body and at home with the Lord" (2 Corinthians 5:8) is ...

  7. Eucharist - Wikipedia

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    While The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the largest of the LDS denominations) technically practice a closed communion, their official direction to local Church leaders (in Handbook 2, section 20.4.1, last paragraph) is as follows: "Although the sacrament is for Church members, the bishopric should not announce that it will be ...

  8. Union with Christ - Wikipedia

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    Traditional Roman Catholic theology centres the union with Christ in a substantial sense on the unity of the institutional church, past and present. "The communion of saints is the spiritual solidarity which binds together the faithful on earth, the souls in purgatory, and the saints in heaven in the organic unity of the same mystical body under Christ its head."

  9. Communion - Wikipedia

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    First Communion, a ceremony in some Christian traditions during which a person receives the Eucharist for the first time; Koinonia (communion or fellowship), the relationship between Christians as individuals and as churches Communion of Saints, a doctrine of Christianity mentioned in the Apostles' Creed; Full communion, recognition between ...