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

*sarcasm* by the way

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

Well here too

It is here too 🤣

you could pick pocket it but you would sin greatly

for a minimum "reward"

But a Satanist could go and pretend to be Orthodox, get the bread and then leave