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Died. 22 February 2005. (2005-02-22) (aged 82) Milan, Italy. Luigi Giovanni Giussani (15 October 1922 – 22 February 2005) was an Italian Catholic priest, theologian, educator, public intellectual, and founder of the international Catholic movement Comunione e Liberazione ( Communion and Liberation ). His beatification process was opened in 2012.
The 1928 Book of Common Prayer [note 1] was the official primary liturgical book of the U.S.-based Episcopal Church from 1928 to 1979. An edition in the same tradition as other versions of the Book of Common Prayer used by the churches within the Anglican Communion and Anglicanism generally, it contains both the forms of the Eucharistic liturgy and the Daily Office, as well as additional ...
Communion and Liberation (Italian: Comunione e Liberazione, often shortened to CL), since 1980 officially Fraternity of Communion and Liberation [3] (Italian: Fraternità di Comunione e Liberazione), it is an international Catholic movement founded in 1954 by Fr. Luigi Giussani [4] as Student Youth (Gioventù Studentesca), with the aim of presenting the Christian event in a way which is in ...
Spiritual communion. Spiritual communion is a Christian practice of desiring union with Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. It is used as a preparation for Mass and by individuals who cannot receive Holy Communion. [1] This practice is well established in Lutheran, [2] Anglican, and Methodist churches, as well as in the Catholic Church, where it has ...
A communion token with the word ADMISSIBLE, used by the Huguenot refugee community in Berlin. A communion token is a metal token issued to members of Reformed churches in order to provide them entrance to the Lord's Supper. There were many types issued in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries, but they were largely superseded by communion cards.
t. e. In Lutheranism, the Eucharist (also called the Mass, the Sacrament of the Altar, the Lord's Supper, the Lord's Table, Holy Communion, the Breaking of the Bread, and the Blessed Sacrament [ 1][ 2]) refers to the liturgical commemoration of the Last Supper. Lutherans believe in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, affirming the ...
The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion after the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. [ 2][ 3][ 4] Formally founded in 1867 in London, the communion has more than 85 million members [ 5][ 6][ 7] within the Church of England and other autocephalous national and regional churches in full communion. [ 8]
Open communion is the practice of some Protestant Churches of allowing members and non-members to receive the Eucharist (also called Holy Communion or the Lord's Supper). Many but not all churches that practice open communion require that the person receiving communion be a baptized Christian, and other requirements may apply as well.