post-communion love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The part of the liturgy or eucharistic office which succeeds the act of communion.
  • noun A collect or prayer, or one of several prayers, said after communion.
  • In liturgies, succeeding or following the act of communion; also, used after communion: as, a post-communion collect; the post-communion veil.

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Examples

  • Also, the post-communion prayers should be modified to reflect the fact that not everyone will normally receive Holy Communion, particularly when it is a wedding or funeral.

    Prayer Book revision Fr Timothy Matkin 2007

  • I would eliminate one of the options for the post-communion prayer in Rite Two.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2007

  • I would have only one post-communion prayer per rite.

    Prayer Book revision Fr Timothy Matkin 2007

  • I would also eliminate the proper post-communion prayers for marriages, ordinations, and burials.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2007

  • I would also eliminate the proper post-communion prayers for marriages, ordinations, and burials.

    Prayer Book revision Fr Timothy Matkin 2007

  • I would have only one post-communion prayer per rite.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2007

  • Also, the post-communion prayers should be modified to reflect the fact that not everyone will normally receive Holy Communion, particularly when it is a wedding or funeral.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2007

  • I would eliminate one of the options for the post-communion prayer in Rite Two.

    Prayer Book revision Fr Timothy Matkin 2007

  • Then follows a variable antiphon of thanksgiving, a post-communion, and a post-communition, and a dismissal.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • Here the Mass ends, with apparently no variable post-communion, though these are given in the three Masses in the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

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