My epiphany came, in of all places, before the eucharistic Christ, exposed in a monstrance at perpetual eucharistic adoration.
Posted on 02/20/2010 3:25:16 PM PST by NYer
Tim Drake is a staff writer for the National Catholic Register and Faith and Family Magazine. His new book, Young and Catholic: The Face of Tomorrow’s Church, is reviewed on page 42. Visit his website at www.youngandcatholic.com.
My epiphany came, in of all places, before the eucharistic Christ, exposed in a monstrance at perpetual eucharistic adoration.
Evangelical Lutherans are a dying breed. Indeed, infected by the fatal flaws induced by Luther himself, it was bound to happen.
Ping!
The RCIA candidates made their first communion tonight at our Church.
welcome home
I thought they had to be baptised before they made first communion, and then they would not be candidates, but communicants?
Did I misunderstand you?
They were previously baptized and will make their Confirmation at Easter.
Lutheran Ping!
Keep a Good Lent!
Welcome home brother!
Is this the common practice in the Lutheran Church?
Amen! Welcome home. Reminds me of my own experience in 2005.
Practices vary parish by parish, and many parishes change their practices with the seasons of the Church Year.
Nowdays the most common method of distribution of the precious Blood is by common cup (unfortunately, by “intinction”); some parishes fill the plastic cups one at a time from a pouring chalice and/or offer the common cup for drinking. Very few offer the common chalice exclusively for drinking.
Distribution takes place either by a continuously moving line or by standing/kneeling by “tables” at the Communion rail dividing Chancel from Nave.
During Lent the most common practice would be kneeling at the rail.
How are the ablutions handled?
We offer both the chalice and plastic cups. And communion is always served kneeling at the rail.
Just what were Martin’s fatal flaws?
What a beautiful telling of Tim’s encounter with Jesus in ‘the breaking of the bread’.
Again, practices vary greatly. In the majority of parishes the Pastor consumes the remaining wine, sometimes with the eucharistic ministers assisting in the consumption. In a relatively small minority of parishes the ablutions are made in the Catholic/Anglican manner of then adding water to the chalice(s), swirling, and consuming.
That small minority of parishes are also likely to have a reservation Tabernacle.
Freeper bcsco commented that in his church We offer both the chalice and plastic cups.
Plastic cups? For what is supposedly the Blood of Christ? Do the Lutheran churches maintain a sacrarium in the sacristy?
One of my major complaints at my current parish. Back home we used the common cup.
As for the communion on a rotating basis, in confirmation class my old pastor taught it was because many of the old “prairie” churches didn't have a regular pastor, but had a circuit pastor. He would take turns through the month (or longer) going to each parish in a rotation. So (back home) it was the second and last Sunday of the month, which was when the pastor was there in the 1800’s.
My church in college, which was built much later, has communion every Sunday. As does my sister's in Chicago which was built in the early 1800’s but had a regular pastor.
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