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Drink from one bug cup or tiny small cups; YACP -- yet another Communion poll
Topic Started: Jun 7 2006, 05:51 AM (407 Views)
Aqua Letifer
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ivorythumper
Jun 7 2006, 11:34 AM
Bug cups? :shrug:

I prefer intinction (but in the apostolic Churches intinction is by the priest or deacon -- never "self intinction"). The eastern Churches use a spoon, sort of like a mother bird feeding her young. It is a very passive/receptive posture for the communicant since we properly "receive" communion as a gift from the Lord and don't "take" it.

Do you mean this kind,

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or this kind?

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I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Dewey
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ivorythumper
Jun 7 2006, 11:34 AM
Bug cups? :shrug:

I prefer intinction (but in the apostolic Churches intinction is by the priest or deacon -- never "self intinction"). The eastern Churches use a spoon, sort of like a mother bird feeding her young. It is a very passive/receptive posture for the communicant since we properly "receive" communion as a gift from the Lord and don't "take" it.

(in advance, apologies to anyone offended by the Protestant, non-Catholic usage/definitions of the terms "elements" and "sanctuary" - oh, and "she" :P )

Our version of intinction can take different forms. In our church, all elements of Communion must be served by ordained members of the church - either elders (which category also includes our clergy) or deacons. Sometimes, deacons will take the elements to one of several designated locations within the sanctuary, to which each individual member goes to receive them. Other times, the elders and deacons will deliver them to a pew or row of chairs, and pass them down the row - so there is some "self-serving" while it is in the pews, butthen it returns to the elder or deacon, who then serves it to others in other rows.

As to the "receive/take" issue, I agree that we receive Communion, but since part of Christs words of institution of the sacrament include "Take, eat;..." I don't have any theological problem with the concept of "taking" that which is given for/to me, so I don't get too worked up over the interchanging of those terms.

And no, I don't like bug cups, either - sounds a little sacreligious... not to mention nasty tasting. ^_^

That sort of reminds me of a story from one of our recent Worship & Sacraments classes. The pastor/instructor was talking about the importance of, whether using wine or grape juice (her congregation uses only grape juice), to use "good stuff" (in Presby tradition, the wine/grape juice and bread are not any special-order materials; they are to be foodstuffs that are common and typical within the given community, as were the bread and wine of the first Communion). She was saying that an important part of the sacrament is its sensory aspect - that yes, it must not taste like crap, but the wine/juice should also have a good smell, texture, color, and viscosity (for lack of a better term) as it is being poured into the chalice. She told how one day, they noticed just before the service that they were unexpectedly short on grape juice, so they sent someone across the street to the grocery store to get some. They brought back a bunch of "Boo Berry" grape juice - a particularly skanky, thinly diluted, and oddly colored concoction that, to put it mildly, wasn't a big hit. So one of the lessons of the day was "Never any Boo Berry!" :lol:
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