To: Onelifetogive; Pyro7480
I still don't understand why we now receive the Eucharist in both forms? Why is this necessary? This was not done for hundreds of years. Why now?
20 posted on
05/23/2004 3:17:20 PM PDT by
Bigg Red
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To: Bigg Red
I still don't understand why we now receive the Eucharist in both forms? Why is this necessary? This was not done for hundreds of years. Why now? Communion under both kinds was the common way of reception in the early Church (along with reception of the Body of Christ in the hand).
It is not "necessary"; one is free to receive under one kind only.
21 posted on
05/23/2004 3:38:32 PM PDT by
sinkspur
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