[lugsoul]

As a Protestant who is married to a Catholic, I must say that I find the RCC's restrictions with regard to Communion to be nothing short of bizarre. For the life of me, I can't decipher how the taking of communion (whether by a Catholic in a Protestant church, or a Protestant in a Catholic Church) can be a "serious sin." I defy any Catholic to show me a teaching of Jesus that shows the participation in a sacrament to be a "sin" because of the time and place of the ceremony.

[Jim Noble]

As a Protestant who is married to a Catholic, I must say that I find the RCC's restrictions with regard to Communion to be nothing short of bizarre

It's not bizarre.

It's offensive.

[Rutles4Ever]

Because there is no grace imparted by reception of the Protestant "sacrament". You can march a million-man army through that chasm. Apostolic succession preserves the supernatural composition of RC sacraments.

I defy any Catholic to show me a teaching of Jesus that shows the participation in a sacrament to be a "sin" because of the time and place of the ceremony.

Silly. That's the equivalent of asking you to point out the word "trinity" in the Holy Bible. For that matter, point out the word "bible" in the bible.

Jesus didn't declare slavery a sin, either. What's your opinion on slavery?

[PresbyRev]

For what it is worth, I quite agree with you.

At tonight's Maundy Thursday service, including the Celebration of the Sacrament of Holy Communion, I will in the Invitation to the table, remind the congregants of Jesus' practice of open hospitality and an open table.

In the invitation, I typically affirm that Christ is spiritually and genuinely present in the sacrament and that the table is neither a Catholic or Protestant, a conservative nor liberal, neither a Presbyterian table, but the Lord's table and all baptized Christians and their covenant children are bid welcome.

It is a tragedy that the table of radical hospitality and unity is such a source of division for Christ's body.