communicant

Example Sentences

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Known to friends and family as Lily, she was taken to church from a young age by her father, a daily communicant.

From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2022

“How we receive, while very personal to the individual communicant, is not crucial,” said Archbishop John Wester of Santa Fe, N.M., who ordered his priests to place the Communion wafer on the recipient's hand.

From Fox News • Mar. 5, 2020

She herself is a daily communicant and says the Rosary constantly for the Pope’s intentions, but nothing seems to help.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2018

“Frank was described by his friends and the people that knew him as a quiet, ambitious boy of good habits and a communicant of St. Mary’s Church in Elgin,” Thiel said.

From Washington Times • May 4, 2016

Out on my arse jobless and a mother to support that’s ninety-two and a daily communicant in the Franciscan church.The rent man collects the rents, missus, or he loses the job.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt