Cheryl, I see where you're coming from, but, having been raised a Catholic (I no longer practise for a variety of reasons), I understand the reasoning behind it. Most religions, as I understand, believe that Communion
represents the body and blood of Christ, whereas the Catholics believe it actually
becomes the body and blood during the consecration. Also, Communion is one of the seven sacraments of the Church. You must be a member in order to receive them. On very special occasions, some individual parishes will open it up to non-members, as long as they have been baptized as Christian. However, this is supposed to be extremely rare. With things the way they have been in the Catholic Church of late, many parishes/priests take it upon themselves to interpret the Church's rules and regs.
I'm not saying this is right or wrong and I hope I don't cause problems with my post; I just felt I should explain where the priest may have been coming from.
Me?? I attend church daily outside as I walk among God's nature. The way I look at it, most of the rules made were made by
men (notice I didn't say people), not God. He only gave us 10 and as long as we follow those and the Golden Rule we're ok.
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