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Wishing a happy Whitsunday to our Christiam members here.

In my country, Monday is also a day off, but I just learnef drom wikipedia that the UK changed it to the spring bank holiday?
 
Cino said:
Wishing a happy Whitsunday to our Christiam members here.

In my country, Monday is also a day off, but I just learnef drom wikipedia that the UK changed it to the spring bank holiday?
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Thurs and Friday were a Royal Jubilee holiday here in the UK, but I don't believe Monday is one ...
 
From Spongfans FB page

Today, Diana Butler Bass wrote about Pentecost. Then she wrote about a resolution that will soon face the Episcopal Church at the national meeting. The problem is the issue of open communion and whether communion is for baptized Christians only or for anyone who wants to to participate.
A group of theologians had written a letter that included the statement:
“Holy Eucharist is therefore not intended for ‘all people’ without exception, but is rather for ‘God’s people.’”
Diana Butler Bass responded:
“All people ARE God’s people. Start your theology there. Start every theology there for God’s sake. For the sake of humanity. For the sake of the planet.”
I’m thankful for Diana Butler Bass.
 
Pentecost, aka Trinity Sunday in the Orthodox traditions, is celebrated June 12 this year.
 
All people ARE God’s people. Start your theology there. Start every theology there for God’s sake. For the sake of humanity. For the sake of the planet.
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Sound words, but the Eucharist should not be approached without preparation.

I mean, Jesus was quite specific that union with Him is not in that sense a given, it has to be asked for with an honest heart.

Personally I'd be happy to offer the Eucharist to the unbaptised, but I'd want to know the reason why it's requested, and the reason would have to be more than FOMO!
 
Thomas said:
Personally I'd be happy to offer the Eucharist to the unbaptised, but I'd want to know the reason why it's requested, and the reason would have to be more than FOMO!
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Isn't that the last ditch effort (or first) of the missionary? "But what if you are wrong?"

To us unwashed communion means community. Communing with others a shared experience...I mean they ain't doing it for the calories or getting smsshed.
 
wil said:
Isn't that the last ditch effort (or first) of the missionary? "But what if you are wrong?"
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No.

wil said:
To us unwashed communion means community. Communing with others a shared experience...I mean they ain't doing it for the calories or getting smsshed.
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Well to us it means something else. Community and communing, we do all that, but the Eucharist is something else.

I once saw a documentary on Islam. At one point, there was a scene of a father washing his hands, and showing his son who to wash his hands, actually washing his son's hands, explaining all the while what it meant within the context of Islam.

It was, and simply was, washing hands, but the meaning, intention and understanding beside it lifted it to something else.

There is the outward and the inward, and that distinguishes between me breaking bread, or celebrating the Eucharist.
 
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Totally....we each have our own dance.

But that does not stop me from washing my hands...just because it is sacred to others.

For some it is stretching, for others yoga.

At the end of service I break bread and pass the chalice with Jews.

We can chose to walk the labyrinth while our children chose to play tag crossing the lines.
 
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But that does not stop me from washing my hands...just because it is sacred to others.
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Quite. In the particular context, it is a sacred act. Other times, it's just him washing his hands.

I don't stop eating bread because I partake of the Eucharist, but they are two different things.
 
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The Eucharist is the personal sacrament of the body and blood of Christ. A parish priest visits sick and aged parishioners at home who are unable to come to mass, and gives them the holy sacrament of the Eucharist. The Eucharist, like the other sacraments, is personal, imo ...
 
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The Eucharist is closer to the pure meal of the Essenes, than to the idea of of breaking bread and chatter amongst the faithful. The Eucharist is the sacramental personal communion with Christ, imo
 
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