How often does your Church have Communion? (doctrine, dogmas, Bible)
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Seriously, people, a potluck comes closer to what Jesus was talking about than any ceremony.
Good one! While as an Episcopalian, I love the ritual of the Eucharist and find holiness in communion with my fellow parishioners, things like potlucks (my church is big on them) bring us together in true fellowship outside of ritual practices.
The church I went to as a kid had communion every week. The one I went to as a teenager after we switched churches had communion every week for the 8:30 service and the first Sunday of the month for the 10:00 service.
In my church Communion is offered every day at noon, twice on Saturdays and three times on Sundays. The noon services are very short, informal and attended by a handful of people. We also observe all of the major feasts with Communion. It's quite uncommon nowadays. Few churches have that many services.
It's quite uncommon nowadays. Few churches have that many services.
Not true. Every Catholic church has communion every day of the year, and depending on the size or circumstances of the parish, you can have numerous Masses (which are services at which communion is received.) For example, at St. Francis of Assisi church near Pennsylvania Statino in New York City, on each weekday you have 9 communion services, on Saturdays you have 5, and on Sundays you have 7, for a total of 21 separate occasions on which one can participate in communion in a single week -- and that is just one church.
I recently checked out a church website for one of those evangelical churches and it said that they had formal communion the 1st Sunday of every month, but the other weeks, they set up a table with "bread and juice" in back where people were free to go get it during "praise music time" (whatever that is??). So it sounded like they just set up a "Communion buffet". Seems very strange to me.
I recently checked out a church website for one of those evangelical churches and it said that they had formal communion the 1st Sunday of every month, but the other weeks, they set up a table with "bread and juice" in back where people were free to go get it during "praise music time" (whatever that is??). So it sounded like they just set up a "Communion buffet". Seems very strange to me.
Sounds closer to the idea of recognizing participation in community that was intended in the first place and carried our in the "love feasts" of the earliest Christians immediately after the Jewish Sabbath.
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