LANGUISH CRYSTAL BALL: Will Caliga's county vote to repeal alcohol prohibition?

[Maximus]

Yes, communion is common in many protestant denominations, as I well knew;  Lutheran, Presbyterian, Anglican/Episcapalian; pretty much all the "high church" kinds of denominations.  I didn't know it was practiced by Methodists, nor do I still know if practiced by Baptists, Anabaptists, Quakers, Shakers, or Unitarians.

Mennonites(Annabaptists) practice it, usually on an annual basis in the groups I'm familiar with. They take it one step further than most(I think) and include the foot washing.

[The Brain]

Yes, communion is common in many protestant denominations, as I well knew;  Lutheran, Presbyterian, Anglican/Episcapalian; pretty much all the "high church" kinds of denominations.  I didn't know it was practiced by Methodists, nor do I still know if practiced by Baptists, Anabaptists, Quakers, Shakers, or Unitarians.

Mennonites(Annabaptists) practice it, usually on an annual basis in the groups I'm familiar with. They take it one step further than most(I think) and include the foot washing.

[Maximus]

Also, not only do you have to be a member of the church, but you have to go through the process to take part. That includes several weeks of revival meetings, cross-examination by the clergy, and self-examination and public confession.

[The Brain]

Are you sure? Can't you just say "Mennon" and enter?

[Maximus]

Well I never tried that.

BTW, I think it's "Mellon"

[Syt]

At my dad's Methodist church they make a point of saying that you don't have to be a member or even a Christian to chow down.

Yeah the Catholics announce if you are not a Catholic do not partake...not that they will do anything if you do but, you know, God knows you are a heretical bastard.

The Methodists do not concern themselves with it on that level.

Protties just pass around a plate of bread or crackers and little cups of wine or juice. They don't go up and get it from the priest. It's the no-priest-between-you-and-God thingie. Every Christian denomination that I know of does communion at least once in a while.

In my Lutheran church in Germany we had to go to the altar and the pastor would hold the cup for us (turning it slightly after each drinker and wiping it every full circle so that you didn't catch anything). He'd also give us the cookie.

[The Brain]

Well I never tried that.

BTW, I think it's "Mellon"

Mellonites is something else I think.

[The Brain]

At my dad's Methodist church they make a point of saying that you don't have to be a member or even a Christian to chow down.

Yeah the Catholics announce if you are not a Catholic do not partake...not that they will do anything if you do but, you know, God knows you are a heretical bastard.

The Methodists do not concern themselves with it on that level.

Protties just pass around a plate of bread or crackers and little cups of wine or juice. They don't go up and get it from the priest. It's the no-priest-between-you-and-God thingie. Every Christian denomination that I know of does communion at least once in a while.

In my Lutheran church in Germany we had to go to the altar and the pastor would hold the cup for us (turning it slightly after each drinker and wiping it every full circle so that you didn't catch anything). He'd also give us the cookie.

Yeah. Unlike Catholics Lutheran pastors aren't limited by restraining orders.

[Admiral Yi]

Protties just pass around a plate of bread or crackers and little cups of wine or juice. They don't go up and get it from the priest. It's the no-priest-between-you-and-God thingie. Every Christian denomination that I know of does communion at least once in a while.

I've only seen the up-at-the-front kind, never the hors d'oevres tray thingy.

[derspiess]

Well they have communion at Methodist churches.

I did not know that.  A quick search says it is only occasional in many Methodist churches, though, so maybe that is why I didn't even know they did it.

At my church, we do it about once a month, particularly on holidays.  We are a bit more laid back on the idea, and do not regard the grape juice & bread as the literal blood/flesh of Christ like the Catholix do.

On the other hand, I think it's dumb that we use grape juice instead of actual wine.  I took communion once at a Lutheran church-- they used the good stuff

[derspiess]

Interesting fact: I have never actually not-gotten communion from a priest before.  Even at my good friends Catholic marriage it was he himself (and his bride) who gave communion.  I think the Priests deputize members of the congregation these days to speed things along.

Yeah, I read something about that in The Onion   http://www.theonion.com/content/news/priest_shortage_forces_vatican_to

When my nephew/godson & niece were baptized, each time they had some dude wearing a wedding ring & sporting some cape that I can only describe as Liberace-like, but without anything sparkly.

[DisturbedPervert]

The non denominational church I went to as a little kid never did it.  Not even exactly sure what communion is but I know I was never given crackers or grape juice to eat while there.

[Neil]

It's practiced in the United Church, which was a merger of the Methodists and Presbyterians.

Was.  Now it is a wing of the New Democratic Party.  We went to my parents' for Christmas one year and the sermon was all about how America and Bush were evil.

[Caliga]

At my church, we do it about once a month, particularly on holidays.  We are a bit more laid back on the idea, and do not regard the grape juice & bread as the literal blood/flesh of Christ like the Catholix do.

On the other hand, I think it's dumb that we use grape juice instead of actual wine.  I took communion once at a Lutheran church-- they used the good stuff

Growing up my church was United Methodist and we did it about once a month as well, and also did not believe in transubstantiation.

My grandfather was an ELC minister and his churches never used real wine for communion.

[Ed Anger]

Clearly, you all are papists.