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communion

[kuh-myoon-yuhn] / kəˈmjun jən /




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By tomorrow, in communion with millions of others, they will be able to say: "I saw it!"

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

And yet fans suspend their cynicism for a few hours — for a tournament, for a season — because they know that the communion that soccer offers is pure and holy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

It means a baptised follower is "out of communion" with the Church - meaning they cannot receive the sacraments, for example going to confession, or get married within the Roman Catholic Church.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

This capacity for wonder reveals the deepest human desire for communion and eternal love.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

But what used to feel like a communion only emphasized our grief and eventually we had stopped trying altogether.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez

He attended Catholic school and remembers an active community in Mobile filled with baptisms, weddings and first communions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025

She also photographs baptisms and first communions and is now testing recipes that incorporate cacao, coconut, lime and other regional crops with hopes of opening a café.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

In mid-March, the Amsterdam church became one of at least 160 Orthodox parishes worldwide that have sought to break ties with the Moscow Patriarchate and join other Orthodox communions.

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2022

Five Christian world communions — including the World Communion of Reformed Churches, the Lutheran World Federation and the Mennonite World Conference — will be holding a joint Ash Wednesday prayer service for peace in Ukraine.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2022

In the middle of the fifth century, the third and fourth general Councils at Ephesus and Chalcedon proved the immediate occasions of dividing the Syrian Christians into three, and eventually into yet more, hostile communions.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener




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