Holy Communion - Receiving weekly?

[George]

So one thing I have always wondered about other churches is the fact that Communion is as rare as finding an unicorn. One of my family members who attends a Baptist church only does communion I think once every one or two months, whereas my church offers Holy Communion every week.

What do you think about doing it every week?

 

[Josiah]

My Lutheran parish has the Eucharist at every Sunday service.

 

[Alithis]

So one thing I have always wondered about other churches is the fact that Communion is as rare as finding an unicorn. One of my family members who attends a Baptist church only does communion I think once every one or two months, whereas my church offers Holy Communion every week.

What do you think about doing it every week?

yes ,have observed that also -- along with many other troubling trends .not that i agree with some of the "forms " you consider to be communion -as you knew i would not haha . but im not going there ..
just wished to agree that i too have noticed the baptists have somewhat lost the appreciation for the importance of doing so ..

 

[Tigger]

We do communion every week and wouldn't think of joining a church that didn't.

And by the way no group of Christians hold the Eucharist in higher regards than the Orthodox. Just sayin

 

[George]

We do communion every week and wouldn't think of joining a church that didn't.

And by the way no group of Christians hold the Eucharist in higher regards than the Orthodox. Just sayin

How so?

 

[Brighten04]

Yes the Baptist observe communion one time per month.

 

[Tigger]

How so?

It's amazing the intimate detail, preparation and sacred handling of everything involved. The priest starts the night before with his personal preparation, his three hours in the fire and the precise distribution of the elements.

 

[MoreCoffee]

So one thing I have always wondered about other churches is the fact that Communion is as rare as finding an unicorn. One of my family members who attends a Baptist church only does communion I think once every one or two months, whereas my church offers Holy Communion every week.

What do you think about doing it every week?

The holy Eucharist is central to every mass. In my parish holy communion is available to all every day since we have daily masses in the church.

 

[Full O Beans]

So one thing I have always wondered about other churches is the fact that Communion is as rare as finding an unicorn. One of my family members who attends a Baptist church only does communion I think once every one or two months, whereas my church offers Holy Communion every week.

What do you think about doing it every week?

It doesn't matter when or how often it is done. Jesus said, "as often (or whenever) as" you do this.

1 Corinthians 11:25
In the same way, he took the cup of wine after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant between God and his people—an agreement confirmed with my blood. Do this to remember me as often as you drink it.”

 

[Josiah]

If a husband said, "I insist on kissing my wife rarely!"
If a mother said, "I prefer to hug my children infrequently!"
It would make me wonder.
I'd not say they are wrong.... I'd just wonder why?
And I'd not mandate how often spouses may or may not kiss...
Or parents may or may not hug their kids...
But I'd wonder why.

Much the same thing comes to my mind when I read folks preferring infrequent Communion.
But again, I'm against mandates.



- Josiah

 

[Lamb]

If it becomes only a symbol then it doesn't matter to people. It's the ones who believe in the Real Presence who see the value and yearn for it.

 

[Josiah]

If it becomes only a symbol then it doesn't matter to people. It's the ones who believe in the Real Presence who see the value and yearn for it.

If it ain't nothin' but an odd mandate to occasionally drink bad wine and tasteless bread.... then it's understandable that it's something to avoid.

Like when I was 10 (well, make that 6) and I thought that kissing a girl was disgusting..... something to avoid like baths.

 

[psalms 91]

We are to discern the body and blood of Christ, that is not an empty symbol and is in fact the one thing in the New testament that points to sickness and death by not discerning it. We shopuld follow Jesus from the garden to the cross and realize what every drop of blood bought and paid for.

 

[tango]

So one thing I have always wondered about other churches is the fact that Communion is as rare as finding an unicorn. One of my family members who attends a Baptist church only does communion I think once every one or two months, whereas my church offers Holy Communion every week.

What do you think about doing it every week?

I'm not sure there's a right way and a wrong way to do Communion.

Personally I think if I were taking it every week I'd be more likely to start to regard it as fairly mundane, simply because I'm just someone who struggles to preserve solemnity in an occasion that is repeated very regularly. But if someone can take Communion every week while affording it the solemnity it deserves I wouldn't tell them not to.

 

[Josiah]

I kiss my wife at least daily. It's not at all mundane. Of course, I've not been married long.

I eat two - oh geeze, sometimes 3 or 4 times a day! Never grow tired of it.

But that's just me.


Again, I do NOT support any mandates here. And just because the spouse offers a kiss doesn't mean you have to take it.


Just saying




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[tango]

I kiss my wife at least daily. It's not at all mundane. Of course, I've not been married long.

I eat two - oh geeze, sometimes 3 or 4 times a day! Never grow tired of it.

But that's just me.


Again, I do NOT support any mandates here. And just because the spouse offers a kiss doesn't mean you have to take it.


Just saying




.

Good point

In fairness giving my wife a kiss isn't something that needs to be taken as seriously as taking communion. We don't need to dress in sackcloth and ashes or anything but I'd hope that communion is taken in a spirit of reverence while kissing my wife is something done in a far more playful spirit

 

[George]

It's amazing the intimate detail, preparation and sacred handling of everything involved. The priest starts the night before with his personal preparation, his three hours in the fire and the precise distribution of the elements.

Three hours in the fire? Seems like I need to do some studying.

 

[George]

I'm going to start another Communion thread as well.

 

[George]

http://christianityhaven.com/showthread.php?1609-Communion-Symbolic-or-Real

 

[Full O Beans]

If it becomes only a symbol then it doesn't matter to people. It's the ones who believe in the Real Presence who see the value and yearn for it.

It's a symbol of something profound that we have been commanded to partake of as believers. It's the same thing with the symbolic water baptism.