I went to their website and I noticed under their “Life’s Big Events,” First Holy Communion is missing from the list.
She was just visiting the bay area so maybe she is confused on what parish distributed this.
Please do ask. I would be very interested.
First Holy Communion in the Episcopal Church, which used to be when one was confirmed, is no longer the tradition. Children, even infants, take communion (as they do in the Orthodox branch). There may be some parishes that wait until Confirmation, but in every church I have been to, that is not the case.
I’ve been mildly curious myself.
Is the True Presence in Anglican communion too?
As to your first question, the RCC does not consider Anglican orders valid; hence valid sacraments requiring orders cannot be validly confected. So, no, in the eyes of the RCC.
No children in the Orthodox Church receive Communion without first being Chrismated/Confirmed, and Baptized before that.
A lot of evangelical churches use pre-packaged grape juice and wafers in their Communion services. I’ve also seen people buy loafs of bread and fill little plastic cups with Welch’s and just pass it around. There are different ways to do it.
Yeah, I know they have different way. This way just seemed out of the ordinary, but maybe I just didn’t visit enough of the right churches.
That is sad.
When I was in the Church of England, it was Confirmation that was the big event. Then we simply attended Holy Communion the next Sunday, normal dress etc whereas we wore white and veils for Confirmation and always the Bishop.
Why?
I have never seen a pre-packaged communion set. It does interest me how terrible it is in the eyes of some though. Jesus took actual bread aND broke it. It occurs to me that many churches use a factory made and packaged wafer instead of actual bread, maybe someone can explain how that is different.
