Christ Crucified: Holy Communion

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So if you want power in your life, it only comes through the cross. Communion is our opportunity to recall the grace extended to us by our Lord and Savior who loved us. Many, therefore, have a knowledge instruction of fact of this event but a lack of knowledge when it comes to its significance. The former is a familiarity with someone and the latter is the knowledge of facts. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. And from such people turn away! Let your conduct be without coveting; be content with what you have.

But my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you. Some Progressive Christian congregations offer communion to any individual who wishes to commemorate the life and teachings of Christ, regardless of religious affiliation. In the Episcopal Church United States , those who do not receive Holy Communion may enter the communion line with their arms crossed over their chest, in order to receive a blessing from the priest, instead of receiving Holy Communion.

Most Latter-Day Saint churches practice closed communion; one notable exception is the Community of Christ , the second-largest denomination in this movement. The Catholic Church requires its members to receive the sacrament of Penance or Reconciliation before taking Communion if they are aware of having committed a mortal sin [] [] and to prepare by fasting, prayer, and other works of piety.

Traditionally, the Eastern Orthodox church has required its members to have observed all church-appointed fasts most weeks, this will be at least Wednesday and Friday for the week prior to partaking of communion, and to fast from all food and water from midnight the night before. In addition, Orthodox Christians are to have made a recent confession to their priest the frequency varying with one's particular priest , [] and they must be at peace with all others, meaning that they hold no grudges or anger against anyone. Many Protestant congregations generally reserve a period of time for self-examination and private, silent confession just before partaking in the Lord's Supper.

Seventh-day Adventists, Mennonites , and some other groups participate in " foot washing " cf. At that time they are to individually examine themselves, and confess any sins they may have between one and another. Eucharistic adoration is a practice in the Roman Catholic, Anglo-Catholic and some Lutheran traditions, in which the Blessed Sacrament is exposed to and adored by the faithful. When this exposure and adoration is constant twenty-four hours a day , it is called Perpetual Adoration. In a parish, this is usually done by volunteer parishioners; in a monastery or convent, it is done by the resident monks or nuns.

In the Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament , the Eucharist is displayed in a monstrance , typically placed on an altar, at times with a light focused on it, or with candles flanking it. The gluten in wheat bread is dangerous to people with celiac disease and other gluten-related disorders , such as non-celiac gluten sensitivity and wheat allergy.

The Catholic Church believes that the matter for the Eucharist must be wheaten bread and fermented wine from grapes: It also permits Holy Communion to be received under the form of either bread or wine alone, except by a priest who is celebrating Mass without other priests or as principal celebrant. The Catholic Church believes that grape juice that has not begun even minimally to ferment cannot be accepted as wine, which it sees as essential for celebration of the Eucharist.

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For alcoholics, but not generally, it allows the use of mustum grape juice in which fermentation has begun but has been suspended without altering the nature of the juice , and it holds that "since Christ is sacramentally present under each of the species, communion under the species of bread alone makes it possible to receive all the fruit of Eucharistic grace. For pastoral reasons, this manner of receiving communion has been legitimately established as the most common form in the Latin rite.

As already indicated, the one exception is in the case of a priest celebrating Mass without other priests or as principal celebrant. The water that in the Latin Church is prescribed to be mixed with the wine must be only a relatively small quantity. Many Protestant churches allow clergy and communicants to take mustum instead of wine.

In addition to, or in replacement of wine, some churches offer grape juice which has been pasteurized to stop the fermentation process the juice naturally undergoes; de-alcoholized wine from which most of the alcohol has been removed between 0. Risk of infectious disease transmission related to use of a common communion cup is low, to the point of being undetectable. No case of transmission of an infectious disease related to a common communion cup has ever been documented.

The most likely diseases to be transmitted would be common viral illnesses such as the common cold , but a study of individuals found that taking communion up to daily from a common cup did not increase the risk of infection beyond that of those who did not attend services at all. In influenza epidemics, some churches suspend the giving of communion under the form of wine, for fear of spreading the disease.

This is in full accord with Catholic Church belief that communion under the form of bread alone makes it possible to receive all the fruit of Eucharistic grace. However, the same measure has also been taken by churches that normally insist on the importance of receiving communion under both forms.

This was done in by the Church of England. Some fear contagion through the handling involved in distributing the hosts to the communicants, even if they are placed on the hand rather than on the tongue.

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Accordingly, some churches use mechanical wafer dispensers or "pillow packs" communion wafers with wine inside them. While these methods of distributing communion are not accepted in Catholic Church parishes, one such church provides a mechanical dispenser to allow those intending to communicate to place in a bowl, without touching them by hand, the hosts for use in the celebration.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For Eucharistic liturgies, see Christian liturgy. For other uses, see Eucharist disambiguation. Anglican Catholic Latter-day Saint Lutheran. Origin of the Eucharist. Eucharist in the Catholic Church. Lord's Supper in Reformed theology. Open communion , Closed communion , and Full communion.

Likewise, in the Gaelic language of Ireland and Scotland the word "Aifreann", usually translated into English as "Mass", is derived from Late Latin "Offerendum", meaning "oblation", "offering". To you be glory for ever". But let no one eat or drink of your Eucharist, unless they have been baptized into the name of the Lord; for concerning this also the Lord has said, "Give not that which is holy to the dogs".

To you be glory for ever. And, sanctified, gather it from the four winds into your kingdom which you have prepared for it. Because yours is the power and the glory for ever. But let no one that is at variance with his fellow come together with you, until they be reconciled, that your sacrifice may not be profaned. For this is that which was spoken by the Lord: In every place and time offer to me a pure sacrifice; for I am a great King, saith the Lord, and my name is wonderful among the nations. Retrieved 20 October Let that eucharist alone be considered valid which is under the bishop or him to whom he commits it.

It is not lawful apart from the bishop either to baptize, or to hold a love-feast. But whatsoever he approves, that also is well-pleasing to God, that everything which you do may be secure and valid". Letter to the Smyrnaeans, 6, 8 "Give heed to keep one Eucharist. For there is one flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ, and one cup unto union with His blood. There is one altar, as there is one bishop, together with the presbytery and deacons, my fellow-servants; that whatsoever you do, you may do according unto God.

A misprint in this source gives "transubstantiatio" in place of "transubstantiatis" of the original: Retrieved 22 May In this "sacramental union," Lutherans taught, the body and blood of Christ are so truly united to the bread and wine of the Holy Communion that the two may be identified.

They are at the same time body and blood, bread and wine. This divine food is given, more-over, not just for the strengthening of faith, nor only as a sign of our unity in faith, nor merely as an assurance of the forgiveness of sin.

Even more, in this sacrament the Lutheran Christian receives the very body and blood of Christ precisely for the strengthening of the union of faith. The "real presence" of Christ in the Holy Sacrament is the means by which the union of faith, effected by God's Word and the sacrament of baptism, is strengthened and mantained. Intimate union with Christ, in other words, leads directly to the most intimate communion in his holy body and blood.

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Oxford University Press, , sub loco. A Handbook of Doctrinal Theology , St. CPH, , ; cf. Lueker, Christian Cyclopedia , St. CPH, , under the entry "consubstantiation". Retrieved 11 October The new SCM dictionary of liturgy and worship , p. Hart and John R. Key United Methodist Beliefs. Charles Wesley wrote a marvelous collection of hymns that offer an amazing vision of Christ's mysterious, yet real, presence in the bread and the wine.

Here is a stanza from one of them: To every faithful soul appear, And show Thy real presence here! A Portraiture of Methodism.

The Methodists believe, that the covenant of grace has been administered and renewed in different ages of the world. Under the gospel, Christ the substance, prefigured by these shadows, being exhibited, the ordinances in and by which this covenant is dispensed, are the preaching of the word , and the administration of the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's Supper: Share your thoughts with other customers.

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