Message from @Andrules
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Oh. So on leaving the service you get the communion wafer/bread.
Yes
After the wine(blood) the liturgy ends
and we are given the bread(flesh) after that
To qualify for the communion also
Ah ok
we need to do a fasting a day before (friday) and we don't have to eat anything else in the morning on the day of the communion until we finish the liturgy
so the first thing we eat and drink is the blood and flesh
My churches always have us walk up to the front and get our bread/wafer and our wine/grape juice cup. Then we either eat & drink right there, or set & drink back in our seat.
So you do that fasting every week?
Yes
If you follow the rules 100%
Interesting.
some days you can't eat meat
etc
Every week the same thing
I have years to follow that though or to attend communion myself though
Ah
So you’re a degenerate apostate then? 😜🤣
You could say that
It's not a long time that I have returned to church, I had my phase of agnosticism like @Iakovos too
Maybe a year or two that I devoted myself again
I returned to pray daily also
Ah ok cool
So you’re also a recent return to Christianity.
Yes
So when I do feel ready I'll probably try fasting and return to do the communion each week
So you’ve been back in church for 1-2 years, but not taking communion?
Yes
Ah ok
Do you have to do anything officially for the priest to let you do communion or have you just not done it?
You don't, you may even cheat and eat before the communion but you would only cheat yourself
The only time a priest can reject your request of communion
is if you have sinned (a lot) and try to speak it with the priest. He will order you a fasting for a month or even more depends on your sins and after that he will allow you to go again for a communion
that mostly happens in your local churches
So if the priest determines, during your confession, that you’ve sinned a lot he will ask you to fast for a period of time before he lets you partake of communion again?
What's to stop someone from accepting communion in the hand and then sneaking out?
The lightning rod of Jesus 🤷🏼♂️
The people around you
it's a stigma here to steal