Re the communion discussion: do Protestants have communion?

I ask because I was discussing about how Catholics need to not eat an hour before church (if they are going to take communion), and was wondering if Protestants were the same. I was, however, working under the assumption that they didn't actually have communion, hence the lack of the brief fasting.

Speaking as a former Protestant, they don't do Communion.

I never even heard of it until I met a Catholic girl when I was fifteen, but I lived in a very, uhm, what's the word for a place full of ignorant closed-minded hypocrites?

Frank, yes, but no idea about the fasting thing -- given how much different denominations vary on just about everything, I'd guess some fast, some don't.

Some Protestant denominations have communion. I know that Episcopals and Mormons and at least some Lutherans do.

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IIRC, ELCA, UMC, the Episcopal Church, and some others all have an open communion procession, similar to the Catholic closed communion, except you don't have to be a formal member of the church to participate.

Baptist's call it the Lord's Supper and it's usually done once a month. There's no fasting involved and no wine either -- it's grape juice and some kind of wafery thing that you eat. The bread and wine are passed to the congregation at their seats and then you either eat it as you take it or wait and eat as a group, it just depends on how the church does it. There's no common chalice, the grape juice is served in what looks like shot glasses. Also Baptists don't believe in transubstantiation and it's all symbolic.

The Presbyterian church I've gone to off and on does this once a month but they vary how they do it. Sometimes it follows the more Baptist way of doing things but other times they've had processions up to the altar or to other parts of the church with leavened bread dipped into a common cup.

edited -and when I went to Episcopal school we had Communion every Wednesday and that included going up to the altar, kneeling, and then taking the wafer and wine from the priest.

Our Presbyterian church has a monthly communion, with little cracker-type bits of bread and shot glasses of grape juice passed on trays throughout the congregation.

Speaking as a former Protestant, they don't do Communion.

All my past Protestant churches have. Bread and teeny glasses of wine. They're passed around on trays rather than having people come up for them, IME.

Protestants don't (again IME) do First Communion the way the Catholic church does.

Today was a nice morning. I got to the farmers market early enough that nothing had really sold out yet. Got some sweet onions, garlic, scallions, dill, basil, parsely, spinach, potatoes, beets, and cherries. (Cherries were everywhere.) Some of the dill and sweet onions just went into a tofu-dill salad that's going to be lunch today and tomorrow. Beets will be braised and added to spinach for salad tonight and tomorrow. Onions, garlic, potatoes, and herbs will become potato salad. Garlic and parsely will also become part of white bean soup tonight, with carmelized onions on top.