ah, then you’ve never been sitting in a church with stupid parents who let little Iodine take a little bread cube and a little cup of grape juice because she’s so cute and she’s fussing an oh well
Jesus wouldn’t mind, He loved the little children, red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight, no harm, no foul, it’s only bread and grape juice
Over the course of my (ahem) half a century of life I’ve seen it all
Got to hand it to the Catholics
no Catholic parent would EVER give a kid the Host to shut them up
and oh, the Catholics “want you” to receive the eucharist as long as you have been educated about and accept what it represents
Wouldn’t know. Never seen it in a Presbyterian church, but I only attend good conservative churches with people who take it seriously.
The caliber of parents I see at mass? Some of ‘em I bet would hand the kid a wafer if they thought they could get away with it. I mean, they aren’t teaching them anything else - like sitting still, being quiet, not eating snacks, not playing with toys. It’s about the parenting and not the denomination I think although having servers who can prevent three year olds from receiving certainly helps.