The number of communicants at the time of my first dispensing the Lord's Supper was only five, and two of them were members of another religious community.
Since that time 25 persons have been admitted to the Church, so that the present number of communicants is 72.
This village Church is formed on the broad principle of Christian union, designated simply a Christian Church, without denominational distinction; its present number of communicants is 22.
In order to provide the necessary three communicants for the mid-day Mass.
I think I must insist that in future you make some arrangement with your workers and helpers to secure the requisite minimum ofcommunicants for every celebration.
I am afraid, my lord, that in a district like St. Agnes' it is impossible always to ensure communicants for sometimes as many as four early Lord's Suppers said by visiting priests.
Whether communicants receiving at their hands are guilty of sinning?
Consequently, both the Postcommunion prayer of thanksgiving is said in the Mass, and the communicants say their own private prayers.
The more conservative communions neither accept nor teach the results of the higher criticism, and so it reaches the body of their communicants only as rumour and a half-understood menace to the truth.
The Catholic Church offered to its communicants an assured security, the proof of which was not in the fluctuating states of their own souls but in the august authority of the Church to which they belonged.
He found eighteen communicants for whom he held services in the court house.
At that time there were five communicantsand twelve families regularly connected with the church.
After the afternoon's service the communicants sung a liturgical hymn, or the candidates for the Lord's supper held a meeting for instruction.
The enemy is not idle, but endeavours to sift those who believe on Jesus; and we grieve to be obliged to mention, that even of our communicants there are who have fallen into temptation and sin.
The communicants were divided into classes, male and female, the former under the care of the missionaries, and the latter under that of their wives.
I was greatly pleased with the meeting of Communicants and with the Church Services.
This also would go to account for the number of communicants in the different places being very large.
The number ofcommunicants at the holy sacrament in 1548 in thirty-five parishes in the diocese of Worcester is given in the certificate of Colleges and Chantries, No.
The number of communicants had also very much diminished.
But the great accessions which in the first four years of the fourth decade of this century had increased the roll of the communicants of the Presbyterian Church by more than fifty per cent.
He rejoiced to gather no less than fifty communicantsat the first celebration of the Lord's Supper, and to organize them into a church according to the Reformed discipline.
In the four years beginning with 1831 the additions to its roll of communicants "on examination" had numbered nearly one hundred thousand.
During the time when the Spartans occupied Dekeleia, the solemn processions of communicants at the Eleusinian mysteries could never march along the Sacred Way from Athens to Eleusis.
I say again, That the number of this sort of communicants was not so few as six hundred thousand.
It is now the custom on Sunday mornings to read the whole of the service up to the end of the Nicene Creed, in the nave; after the sermon is over, the communicants alone enter the choir to receive the sacrament.
These were at first used as seats, on which the communicants sat to receive the bread and wine.
Met with young communicants on Wednesday and Friday.
When communicants came to be admitted for the first time, or when parents that had been communicants before came for baptism to their children, it was his custom to ask them solemnly if their souls were saved.
But it was his class for young communicants that engaged his deepest care, and wherein he saw most success.
Intimated a concert for prayer, that unworthy communicants might be kept back, the Lord's children prepared for the feast, and ministers furnished from on high.
With respect to the presence of non-communicants at the Holy Eucharist, I had of course seen such publications as have appeared in defence of the practice.
Better still than this, and more to the present purpose, our communicants have increased in numbers, our Communions in frequency.
All who are responsible for the proper instruction of very young First Communicants can in no way afford to be without this work.
Number of communicantsin churches in 1843, were, of Americans.
He directed his attention to the Negroes in 1695 and ten years later counted among his communicants twenty blacks, who with several others "well understanding the English tongue," could read and write.
Thou enquirest how many communicants there are in our church.
This authority adds that the communicants distributed the sacrament they had received amongst themselves saying, "Brother and sister, take and eat thereof.
Thousands in the village of Haworth attended his preaching, even ten thousand at a time, and a thousand communicants approached the table of the Lord.
He found the congregation small, and the number of communicants but twenty-eight.
The Report states the number ofcommunicants at sixty-seven, of whom forty are natives.
George Liele established a school in connection with his church in Jamaica, hoping to develop the minds of his communicants that he might properly edify their souls.
He then tells how he arose to a position of usefulness and later served larger groups of communicants in Philadelphia and the District of Columbia.
These communicants remained under the sole management and control of the Foundry Church until the organization of the Washington Conference in the Civil War.
The factors which caused the cleavage of the white denominations into North and South, the causes of the separation of the Negro communicantsfrom the whites and the threefold cleavage of the Negro Methodists are adequately discussed.
As early as 1821 Mr. Smith was assigned to Washington but his coming was the signal for personal attack, and he was mobbed by members of his own race, communicants of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who were opposed to the African Methodists.
These communicants then purchased property on Connecticut Avenue and built thereon a simple frame building into which they moved in 1851.
Lying, drinking, adulterous, dishonest, passionate communicantsare the helpers of the devil, and the worst enemies of the Gospel.
It is unreasonable to suppose that such communicants can please Christ, or receive any real benefit from what they do.
I believe there are few tables of the Lord, if any, where all the communicants are converted.
Let me advise the non-communicants I have now in view to beware of being wise above that which was written.
For another thing, some are not communicants because they fancy it will add to their responsibility.
I challenge any one to deny that the non-communicants in all English congregations form the majority, and the communicants the minority of the worshippers.
For one thing, many are not communicants because they are utterly careless and thoughtless about religion, and ignorant of the very first principles of Christianity.
In the last place, some object to be communicants because they see others coming to the Lord's Table who are not worthy, and not in a right state of mind.
For another thing, many are not communicants because they know they are living in the habitual practice of some sin, or in the habitual neglect of some Christian duty.
When shall we ever find a body of communicants on earth of which all the members are converted?
What may communicants expect from the Lord's Supper?
For another thing, some are not communicants because they fancy they are not yet worthy.
The Communion Service of the Church bids all communicants declare that "they do not presume to come to the Table trusting in their own righteousness, but in God's manifold and great mercies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "communicants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
