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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Thanks for the happies!

Is it Sue's birthday, too? I didn't know we were twins...

How colour-fast are sharpies? I have white towels I'd like to label somehow--I don't mind if the writing fades over time, but it's only a viable idea as long as the colour doesn't come off on skin or noticably onto other stuff in the wash.

I had a Sharpie-marked pair of sweats where the name on the inside of the waistband outlasted the fabric itself. And never rubbed off on me.

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IME, every Christian Church does Communion in one form or another. I'd actually be startled if one didn't, as it's sort of the central sacrament of the faith.

Growing up in the UCC (where denomination policies are not so much rules as guidelines. Suggestions, really), well, every church also does it differently.

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IME, every Christian Church does Communion in one form or another. I'd actually be startled if one didn't, as it's sort of the central sacrament of the faith.

This is also my experience.

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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.

That is my experience as a Congregationalist as well. Sometimes once a month, sometimes every week, depending on the church.

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