Baptist Communion?

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Reuben_J said:
Btw, the meme I put up was meant to be tongue in cheek but you jumped the gun so I answered in kind. A woman at her age would probably say ‘whut’ to you if you ask her to please her husband by doing something that she does not want to do.

Anyway, we are all contributing our opinions. So we differ there.

The subject is about Communion, not Passover Meal or any other rituals, which is a very big thing in Catholicism. There is so much that can be taken into consideration.

Anyway, I think there is a post by a Baptist that it does not really matter if someone does not partake in the communion. Probably it means more to us rather than to them.
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Thanks Reuben. Didn’t really think much about the meme, but your explanation made me laugh. Yeah, we differ, but that’s what makes things interesting. No harm done. Yes, I saw that post about refusing the Baptist communion, but I feel the OP’s situation is deeper than that. I know I got a lashing for pleasing the husband over Jesus, but that was so out of context.
Reuben, we don’t know the real controversy this couple endures over this. From what I gathered, the husband is not happy and a silent treatment might be what the rest of Sunday is for them. Who knows. Bud, I really gotta believe that (repeating myself) what is in your heart and in your mind as too what the truth is, taking a wafer and a sip of juice and tossing it off as nothing is what the priest was thinking too. If it meant that much to my wife in the same scenario, I would not think twice about it. She’s Catholic too just to clarify!
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rondirect said:
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Catholics are NOT to take Protestant communion
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Thanks for setting me straight!
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For Catholics, it comes from canon law

Canon 844 states: “Catholic ministers may licitly administer the sacraments to Catholic members of the Christian faithful only and, likewise, the latter may licitly receive the sacraments only from Catholic ministers.
 
rondirect said:
Your priest said it was OK and not a sin. Done.
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First off we were not present at this conversation and are only receiving one side of it so you cannot simply state as fact “Your priest said it was OK and not a sin. Done.” You don’t know if this was actually said or if the OP or even the priest misunderstood what was being asked.

Second, if the priest said it was okay then that is not DONE because the priest would be contradicting the teachings of the Church. We are not to agree with a priest if what he says is against Church teaching.

For the last time it is NOT okay for a Catholic to receive Communion in a Protestant church. There are NO EXCEPTIONS.
 
[quote. We are not to agree with a priest if what he says is against Church teaching.
Forgive me if I am mucking this up, but this is the part that puts me in a quandary. I have read hundreds of threads now that range widely in topic from masturbation to taking Communion that concern the behavior of Catholics. The usual advice given by fellow Catholics is for the poster to go and talk to a priest as soon as possible. The inference is that whatever the priest tells you to do will be the right thing to do. This thread shows the reality of the wide diversness of belief in that process and also the different interpretations of Church Teaching that individual Catholics and also priests have. Meaning no disrespect, I point out that this confusion appears to be a reality within the hierarchy right up to the actions and words of the Pope. I have trouble figuring out in simple terms just exactly what it is that the Church teaches.
 
Wannano, be assured that I don’t mean it disrespectfully when I say that Protestants receive a piece of cracker in their Communion. Iirc, there are a few denominations which use actual bread.(The Methodists, which my mother always considered herself to be, come to mind.) But my experience has always been that it is a piece of cracker that is used and a thimble sized swallow of grape juice.
 
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Lilypadrees, my friend, it hurts when I read you say “Protestants receive a piece of cracker” for I am 67 years old and have never in my experience received a cracker of any form, only bread.😥
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For the vast majority of evangelical protestants, this is the sort of element used for the Lord’s Supper. Hard little squares:

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Are you Catholic, @rondirect? If so, how can you condone receiving a “symbol only” Communion in a church that we are not fully united with? You know that Catholics are not to receive in these churches because if we do, we are agreeing with that church’s teachings and saying that the Catholic Church’s teachings are wrong.

The OP may have asked her priest if it was a sin to receive Communion in her husband’s church and been told that it wasn’t a sin. But that doesn’t mean it’s okay to receive Communion in that church. She has already stated that she feels uncomfortable doing that. So why encourage her to do something she feels uncomfortable doing? For her husband? She’s already going with him when she can. That is enough.

You seem to take the reception of Communion lightly. The “Communion is Communion” attitude. If it’s a “symbols only” Communion, that would be true. You can receive in any Protestant denomination. But when one is receiving the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, no, Communion is not just Communion. Catholics receive Holy Communion.
 
Yes, that looks like what I’ve seen in a number of Protestant churches I’ve been to. But the CoC, at least, the ones in my area and where my late maternal grandparents lived, use unsalted crackers. The tray is passed around and each person breaks off a tiny piece of the square cracker.
 
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And some do use loaves of bread either cubed or everyone pulls off a hunk.

It is not outrageous to call the little hard rectangles “crackers”
 
But you ARE being disrespectful, lilypadrees, whether you mean it or not. You can cite your experience, which you do after all these posts, but it is not appropriate to say that all Protestant churches use ‘a piece of cracker’ during their worship liturgy. For one thing, different churches use different forms of bread. For another thing, your tone is extremely dismissive. Be careful - many of those same Protestants laugh in turn at what Catholics call ‘bread.’
 
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Wannano said:
The inference is that whatever the priest tells you to do will be the right thing to do. This thread shows the reality of the wide diversness of belief in that process and also the different interpretations of Church Teaching that individual Catholics and also priests have. Meaning no disrespect, I point out that this confusion appears to be a reality within the hierarchy right up to the actions and words of the Pope. I have trouble figuring out in simple terms just exactly what it is that the Church teaches.
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In cases of prudential judgment, you will – of course – have a range of opinions that are offered.

In cases of Church teaching or canon law, there’s a different dynamic: on one hand, there’s the teaching of the Church, and on the other hand, there are those who are either unaware of (or mistaken about) the teaching or who teach something in contradiction to the Church’s teaching.

“See your priest” is generally good advice. When someone offers the thought that the priest told them something that conflicts with Church teaching, then it’s either a misunderstanding of what they had been told, or they talked to a priest who gave a personal opinion at odds with the Church.

Does it happen? Sure. (It happens in all walks of life, no?) It’s usually pretty straightforward to distinguish “teaching” from “conflicting opinion”, though…
 
I’m sorry you feel that way, CSF. I remember when Protestants didn’t mind being called Protestants and when they freely admitted that their Communion was a piece of cracker and grape juice. The only ones who used actual bread were the Methodists. Now Protestants get offended if Catholics refer to them as anything other than evangelicals and get touchy about their Communion being referred to as a symbol of remembrance only.

Times change. But the Truth doesn’t.
 
lilypadrees said:
I’m sorry you feel that way, CSF. I remember when Protestants didn’t mind being called Protestants and when they freely admitted that their Communion was a piece of cracker and grape juice. The only ones who used actual bread were the Methodists. Now Protestants get offended if Catholics refer to them as anything other than evangelicals and get touchy about their Communion being referred to as a symbol of remembrance only.

Times change. But the Truth doesn’t.
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Did you read what I wrote? You are stereotyping a whole lot of Christians. DIFFERENT CHURCHES USE DIFFERENT ELEMENTS FOR COMMUNION. Your experience is of one church. There are many Christian churches in the US. And there are many variations on what is used during the Communion service.

You are also confusing issues here - 1) which elements are used in which churches and 2) the theological nature of the communion liturgy. Two different discussions. Perhaps you could sort out for us which issue you are addressing.
 
I know very well the Protestant view of what we Catholics refer to as bread. Doesn’t bother me a bit.
 
There is no need to shout, CSF. Got the whole message the first time.

No. Not my experience of one church but of many, all different denominations.

Not confusing anything. Just choosing the priority.
 
Yes, the worship of a “cookie god” is one of the nicer things they accuse us of. (The things said on the now defunct Amazon forums are unrepeatable.)
 
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