Brian Dench, Author at Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Fri, 17 Jun 2022 16:35:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AJ-logo-01.svg Brian Dench, Author at Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com 32 32 170042892 Toronto puts controls on eucharistic hospitality https://anglicanjournal.com/toronto-puts-controls-on-eucharistic-hospitality-520/ https://anglicanjournal.com/toronto-puts-controls-on-eucharistic-hospitality-520/#respond Mon, 01 Mar 1999 05:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/toronto-puts-controls-on-eucharistic-hospitality-520/ The issue is known as “open table.” The question: are there situations in which unbaptized persons are welcome to receive the sacrament at communion? If another controversial reform is emerging, bishops in the most populous diocese are not sitting on their hands. Citing “a new urgency,” they have weighed in heavily on the side of […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/toronto-puts-controls-on-eucharistic-hospitality-520/feed/ 0 91336 Unbaptized receive communion https://anglicanjournal.com/unbaptized-receive-communion-92/ https://anglicanjournal.com/unbaptized-receive-communion-92/#respond Wed, 01 Jul 1998 04:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/unbaptized-receive-communion-92/ The welcome is upbeat, gracious, and theological: “All persons who seek God and are drawn to Christ are welcome to receive the Sacrament of Holy Eucharist.” Open-door hospitality, says San Francisco’s Grace Episcopal Cathedral – on its Worldwide Web page – is a revelation of the true nature of divine love, `promising intimacy and proximity […]

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