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World Communion Sunday is a celebration observed by several Protestant denominations, taking place on the first Sunday of every October, that promotes Christian unity and ecumenical cooperation. [1] It focuses on an observance of the Eucharist. The tradition was begun in 1933 by Hugh Thomson Kerr who ministered in the Shadyside Presbyterian Church.
The heavenly banquet is referenced in the communion liturgy in a number of Christian sects. For example, the close of the standard communion liturgy of the United Methodist Church reads: By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with each other, and one in ministry to all the world, until Christ comes in final victory and we feast at his ...
Catholics use images, such as the crucifix, the cross, in religious life and pray using depictions of saints. They also venerate images and liturgical objects by kissing, bowing, and making the sign of the cross. They point to the Old Testament patterns of worship followed by the Hebrew people as examples of how certain places and things used ...
References to communal meals are found in 1 Corinthians 11:17–34 and in Saint Ignatius of Antioch's Letter to the Smyrnaeans, where the term agape is used, and in a letter from Pliny the Younger to Trajan, [10] (ca. 111 AD) in which he reported that the Christians, after having met "on a stated day" in the early morning to "address a form of ...
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]
That said, the Prayer Book does envisage communion being celebrated every Sunday and on feast days. [4] Prior to the movement, the sacrament of Holy Communion was seen as an individual "making his communion" [2] [5] as a private act of devotion. Communion usually occurred on Sunday either at a Eucharist in the early morning (often around 8.00 ...
Eastern Orthodox practice with regard to the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts has varied historically and geographically. At this Liturgy, which is customarily used only on weekdays of Great Lent, no prayers of consecration take place but communion is distributed with bread with wine poured into it that were consecrated and reserved at the Divine Liturgy the Sunday before.
Sunday Pix is an American Christian comic book published weekly by the David C. Cook publishing company, beginning 1 May 1949. In the late 1960s, the title was changed to Bible-in-Life Pix, and in the 1990s the title was changed to Pix. It is usually sold or given away to Sunday school pupils.