Pre-Packaged Communion

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I once attended an Anglican service, and they had pre-packaged communion - individually packaged too. You peeled open the first section and took out the bread, then you peeled open the second section, which contained grape juice.

I am just curious about how common this practice is. Has any one seen it before?
 
Zabdi_Premjit said:
I once attended an Anglican service, and they had pre-packaged communion - individually packaged too. You peeled open the first section and took out the bread, then you peeled open the second section, which contained grape juice.

I am just curious about how common this practice is. Has any one seen it before?
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Anglican? Grape juice?

As I’ve oft said, no predicting Anglicans, but this one is new to me. And the snack pack format, too.
 
GKC said:
Was your reference to fundamentalists, or to some form of Anglicans/Lutherans doing this?
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Actually, I attended some fundamentalist Churches and never saw THAT, I’ve heard that the large, liberal Episcopal Churches are the ones doing this to try and save time.

But who knows, maybe some of the fundamentalist Churches are doing this now. I didn’t even know this was a thing until recently.
 
Lenten_ashes said:
Actually, I attended some fundamentalist Churches and never saw THAT, I’ve heard that the large, liberal Episcopal Churches are the ones doing this to try and save time.

But who knows, maybe some of the fundamentalist Churches are doing this now. I didn’t even know this was a thing until recently.
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Nor did I.

I would not be surprised at any Anglican innovation, but still…this surprises me. A little. Not sure which is stronger; my cynicism or my skepticism.
 
GKC said:
Nor did I.

I would not be surprised at any Anglican innovation, but still…this surprises me. A little. Not sure which is stronger; my cynicism or my skepticism.
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This ‘Jesus as a condiment’ would be totally offensive and unaccepted with the faithful Anglicans that do remain.
 
Lenten_ashes said:
This ‘Jesus as a condiment’ would be totally offensive and unaccepted with the faithful Anglicans that do remain.
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On the assumption that there are any, which is not too much of a stretch.

But this is still a surprise. Must adjust my cynicism level up a notch.
 
One can see certain practical reasons. eg communion to the sick, in hospital, those with immune problems, the housebound… I have seen old men being given an extra host to put in s silver container to take home to his sick wife… just not sure re it at all, at all! trying to see the reasoning. Yes I would be interested for those reasons,. And it is an extension of the tiny individual glass idea…
 
GKC said:
And it was an Anglican church? Can you be more specific? An American Episcopal Church, for instance?
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One of my former Anglican parishoners said she received this ‘Jesus as a condiment’ communion package at the largest Episcopal Church in San Francisco. Yes, ECUSA.
 
Rosebud77 said:
One can see certain practical reasons. eg communion to the sick, in hospital, those with immune problems, the housebound… I have seen old men being given an extra host to put in s silver container to take home to his sick wife… just not sure re it at all, at all! trying to see the reasoning. Yes I would be interested for those reasons,. And it is an extension of the tiny individual glass idea…
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And Anglicanism (not over-generalizing here, of course), requires consecration of the elements. How and when might this be done , in such a case, one might wonder.

The reserved sacrament (Blessed Body) certainly can be used in sick visits, but still…
 
Lenten_ashes said:
One of my former Anglican parishoners said she received this ‘Jesus as a condiment’ communion package at the largest Episcopal Church in San Francisco. Yes, ECUSA.
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That surprises me less than the idea in general.
 
I have seen such things advertised but you’ll never catch me using them.
 
GKC said:
Thanks.

It is still mind boggling. Sounds like a new level of Low Church ecclesiology.
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Well, the priest was also wearing earrings and dreadlocks,so I am inclined to think this particular parish was not of the more conservative wing of Anglican communion. I could be misjudging though, as I have only been in an Anglican church that one time. :o
 
Lenten_ashes said:
One of my former Anglican parishoners said she received this ‘Jesus as a condiment’ communion package at the largest Episcopal Church in San Francisco. Yes, ECUSA.
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I have a really hard time believing this. The largest Episcopal church in San Francisco is Grace Cathedral, and no, no, no.
 
gcnuss said:
I have seen such things advertised but you’ll never catch me using them.
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I mean, at the end of the day, if a particular church considers communion to just be merely symbolic and does not believe in the real presence, then is it really any more abhorrent for them than, say, mass-produced iconography?
 
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