Interestingly, Jesus was not ordained nor certified by anyone. In fact, He was crucified by the “church” leaders of His day. I am authorized by Christ to celebrate the Lord’s Supper as is anyone who calls on the Lord- in fact, He directed his disciples to celebrate His death and atoning sacrifice with simple elements of bread and wine. No ritual, no magic, just remembrance of His grace towards sinful man.
My wife and I celebrate the Lords Supper nearly every day. I am free and who the Son makes free is free indeed.
At communion our pastor usually says something like “every time that you eat of this bread and drink of this wine you are proclaiming the saving death of Jesus”.
I suppose he means this Communion bread and wine, but I’m guessing Jesus would be delighted to have us, whenever we sit down to eat with other believers, to treat a normal meal as communion.
And of course he would think it silly to have so many rules around it. Just like he had issues with all of the rules the Pharisees had.
You and your wife are lucky to have each other. My old man always made of point of telling me when it came time to be married that we should be “equally yoked”. Of course at 18 years old I thought that was pretty old-fashioned. Luckily by the time I got married that was a main factor.
Going through difficult times, I can’t imagine being married to someone without similar beliefs in God.