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Muir again: \u201cIn [medieval] England taking communion was called \u2018taking one\u2019s rights,\u2019 which meant asserting one\u2019s membership in the community, and to suffer excommunication . . . would have meant exclusion from both the universal community of believers and the local community of citizens . . . . Although the ideal of social harmony conveyed in the communion rite may not have been achieved very often in the daily give and take of village life, the occasional ritual experience of utopia expressed a model for what society could be.\u201d <\/p>\n
The social effects of the eucharist were particularly marked in Italy, where \u201cpersons involved in a vendetta made peace, each recieved the Eucharist, celebrating their new collectivity as members of the body of Christ and publicly acknowledging that they put themselves in peril of the \u2018vendetta of God\u2019 were they to break the peace, a vendetta that might deprive them of the protection of community in this life as well as of salvation in the next.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Muir again: \u201cIn [medieval] England taking communion was called \u2018taking one\u2019s rights,\u2019 which meant asserting one\u2019s membership in the community, and to suffer excommunication . . . would have meant exclusion from both the universal community of believers and the local community of citizens . . . . Although the ideal of social harmony conveyed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology-liturgical"],"yoast_head":"\n