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Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Zenkitty - Jun 17, 2007 7:28:41 am PDT #3449 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

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?


amych - Jun 17, 2007 7:32:00 am PDT #3450 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

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.


Hil R. - Jun 17, 2007 7:32:10 am PDT #3451 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

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


Hil R. - Jun 17, 2007 7:32:57 am PDT #3452 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Everything you ever wanted to know about Communion: [link]


P.M. Marc - Jun 17, 2007 7:33:53 am PDT #3453 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

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.


askye - Jun 17, 2007 7:39:10 am PDT #3454 of 10001
Thrive to spite them

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.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 17, 2007 7:43:33 am PDT #3455 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

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.


brenda m - Jun 17, 2007 7:50:09 am PDT #3456 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

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.


Hil R. - Jun 17, 2007 8:14:00 am PDT #3457 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

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.


Zenkitty - Jun 17, 2007 8:22:04 am PDT #3458 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

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.

Whoa. I retract my earlier statement. I remember doing this now! Damn, that's weird; I had completely forgotten all that.