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Last updated on April 17, 2025.
When I directed the 'Ring' cycle at the Metropolitan Opera in New York recently, there were people texting all through the show. But theatre isn't a communication device: it's a communion.
For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
Following Jesus in faith is to walk with him in the communion of the Church. You cannot follow Jesus alone.
when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.
Avail yourself of the greatest privilege this side of heaven. Jesus Christ died to make this communion and communication with the Father possible.
No duty is more earnestly impressed upon us in Scripture than the duty of continual communion with Him.
When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary - a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.
When we have communion with God in the doctrine we contend for-then shall we be garrisoned by the grace of God against all the assaults of men.
For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.
If you practice the holy exercise of Spiritual Communion a good many times each day, within a month you will see yourself completely changed.
This intimacy is not necessary; no one is compelling me to open my inmost self and lay it naked, undefended, against that of another – merely for the joy of the communion.
The Sacraments are Jesus Christ’s presence in us. So it is important for us to go to Confession and receive Holy Communion.
The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being
The ancient path of communion with God is knowing what He's really like. And prayer is simply keeping company with God.
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion.
My body is the rock and roll temple and my flesh, blood and body fluids are a communion to the people whether they like it or not
There are hours when the Church must say NO to those who should ask communion with her, in the doing of her work, upon the basis of compromise.
Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.
Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.
Communion is as necessary for us to sustain our Christian vitality, as the vision of God is necessary to the angels, to maintain their life of glory.
I ought to spend the best hours of the day in communion with God. It is my noblest and most fruitful employment, and is not to be thrust into any corner.
Two roses on one slender spray In sweet communion grew, Together hailed the morning ray And drank the evening dew.
Eating, and hospitality in general, is a communion, and any meal worth attending by yourself is improved by the multiples of those with whom it is shared.
The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words, the more fallible the mammal, the truer the example.
To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God.
From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.
We are participants in a vast communion of being, and if we open ourselves to its guidance, we can learn anew how to live in this great and gracious community of truth.
Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!
Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls.
With respect to Holy Communion, it is up to the communicant to decide whether they are in a state of grace and worthy to receive the Eucharist. Each one of us makes that decision.
The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr, so gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it.
Our task is to live our personal communion with Christ with such intensity as to make it contagious.
Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love!
At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and with the subject you are teaching.
I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there.
When I joined the Mumfords I made a commitment to them so they'll always come first. But I'm a bit of a workaholic and Communion helps me get a grip on dealing with my life.
Our breath is connected to the air that every being breathes. By breathing consciously, we acknowledge our communion with all of life.
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.
Only in Christ are all things in communion. He is the point of convergence of all hearts and beings and therefore the bridge and the shortest way from each to each.
The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.
The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”, is communion with the Orthodox Churches.
Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.
Sacred love is selfless, seeking not its own. The lover serves his beloved and seeks perfect communion of oneness with her.
When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.
I think musicians are perfect at knowing how to get the best out of other musicians. I can really relate to that communion.
Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination.
Many in Jesus' day saw him, but they didn't have communion with him. You can have more of Christ by faith than they had by sight.
The body and the soul join in doing the work of the soul, ie. praying, meditating, praising and coming in communion with God.
She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me.
If the Angels could envy, they would envy us for Holy Communion.
Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man. It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.
The Christian who walks with the Lord and keeps constant communion with Him will see many reason for rejoicing and thanksgiving all day long.
If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.
I was raised as a Catholic and received the body and blood of Jesus Christ every Sunday at communion until I was thirty years of age, when I became a vegetarian.
Another related source of demonization is the homosexual relationship itself. [...] That attachment and communion are indeed inspired, but their source is demonic.
