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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It's always amazed me since I learned of it that many Baptist churches celebrate the Eucharist with... grape juice?
There are times when I am very glad I attended a church towards the liberal-end of the Presbyterian spectrum in my youth, because we were actually expected to think.
It's always amazed me since I learned of it that many Baptist churches celebrate the Eucharist with... grape juice?
Mormons use water. They don't drink alcohol, and when the church started, unfermented grape juice wasn't available. Doctrines and Covenants says "it mattereth not what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink when ye partake of the sacrament, if it so be that ye do it with an eye single to my glory."
Can't be wine. Because alcohol is the Devil.