And there is the answer to your earlier question of how people are supposed to know whether they are allowed to take it or not.
The Catholic mass weddings I've been to had a good number of non-Catholics in attendance. Perhaps the couples asked the priest to give an explanation before communion so that people would know (my DH told me that they did this at his first wedding, for that very reason - lots and lots of non-Catholics).
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Why hide your light under a bushel of bears, I ask you?
Huh? It isn't selling out. It would only be selling out if she were actively AGAINST their beliefs (designing leaflets for the KKK, for example). But not sharing the belief doesn't mean being actively against it.
I would think that this is a no-brainer. Anyone who respects and educates themselves in the service they're attending?
If I invited a guest to a Catholic Mass, I would certainly instruct them on the etiquette of the communion ritual. If they chose to disregard my advice in participating, I would lose a little respect for them. I rarely attend a service or ritual without trying to learn something about it beforehand, but I'm sure I've made a faux pas or two in ignorance, not willful disrespect. IMO, if anyone has rudimentary knowledge of the Catholic Church, they know that the Eucharist is a sacrement, and open to only the faithful.
I think you are thinking this through too literally CG. I never heard the phrase before today, but as soon as I read Bord's post, I knew what she meant. I never thought she meant that any church literally uses that phrase in it's services. (They may or many not, but she was not saying that the Catholic priests announce this is a "closed table communion.")
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There are tons of them out there....
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/07/us/priest-who-imposed-dress-code-is-removed.html?n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FSubjects%2FP%2FPriests&scp=3&sq=denied%20communion&st=cse
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00C15F8395E157493C6A8178FD85F418785F9
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2003-04-18-pope_x.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/17/us/legislator-barred-from-communion.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/04/AR2006060400773.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5762478/
http://www.catholicdoors.com/faq/qu31.htm
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,264369,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/14/national/14bishop.html?scp=10&sq=denied%20communion&st=cse
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,271314,00.html
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061210/gays_communion_061210/20061210?hub=Canada
PumpkinAngel
ITA with you on that-lol!!
But I really meant other parishioners and the priests or ministers.
You don't know the church teachings around receiving
PumpkinAngel
>> It is usually just common knowledge. <<
And there is the answer to your earlier question of how people are supposed to know whether they are allowed to take it or not.
The Catholic mass weddings I've been to had a good number of non-Catholics in attendance. Perhaps the couples asked the priest to give an explanation before communion so that people would know (my DH told me that they did this at his first wedding, for that very reason - lots and lots of non-Catholics).
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Why hide your light under a bushel of bears, I ask you?
Why hide your light under a bushel of bears, I ask you?
I would think that this is a no-brainer. Anyone who respects and educates themselves in the service they're attending?
If I invited a guest to a Catholic Mass, I would certainly instruct them on the etiquette of the communion ritual. If they chose to disregard my advice in participating, I would lose a little respect for them. I rarely attend a service or ritual without trying to learn something about it beforehand, but I'm sure I've made a faux pas or two in ignorance, not willful disrespect. IMO, if anyone has rudimentary knowledge of the Catholic Church, they know that the Eucharist is a sacrement, and open to only the faithful.
Why wouldn't they know?
PumpkinAngel
I don't know about you, but that's a pretty big thing imo.
PumpkinAngel
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