Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: firth@sei.cmu.edu Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: open communion Message-ID: Date: 5 Feb 90 08:41:52 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 16 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article christm@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (Mark C. Christianson) writes: > Most, but not all, Lutheran churches and the Catholic church >discourages members of other denominations from receiving Communion in >their church. Just to provide another data point. At my local Anglican church, all baptized Christians may receive the Sacrament. Whenever we have a substantial number of guests, for instance at baptisms or marriages, our priest usually takes the trouble to announce this explicitly at some appropriate point in the service. The question whether children receive is left to their parents' judgement. He does advise that they undergo some instruction in the meaning of both service and sacrament, but this is not a precondition.