I grew up in a Catholic household. Did the Communion thing, Pennance,
Confirmation and all that fun stuff. We were taught that it was best to
let the priest put the bread into our mouths directly because our hands
were dirty, and this was the "body" of the Big Man.

Somewhere in my 30s I learned about the Jewish Sader dinner, and
realized the obvious: Communion is Passover. Duh. And Passover is to be
celebrated by the people personally - you dont need a priest to run the
show. So I tried doing communion once or twice on "my own" with my kids.
Felt perfectly right! The kids speak parts of the communion...

I then mentioned the idea to my brother. Oh he was horrified! You'd
think I just told him the Pope wasnt Catholic or something. <grin>

What do you think?

I have done communion on my own before. A priest isn't necessary to
communicate with God. I think next to washing away our sins, Jesus
dying on the cross was done so that each of us could personally come to
Father God and not have to come via certain "chosen ones." All that is
needed for communion is you, God, the bread and wine, and a open and
receptive heart.

Jesus said where two or more are gathered I am in the midst. You don't
even need a third person, let alone a priest. In the early days after
Christ people met in there houses. Although the bible says not to
forsake the assembly, I don't believe you have to be in a church to take
communion. My dad was a Church of Christ preacher up until he died last
year. When my mom was bedridden with cancer 4 years ago my dad gave her
communion ever Sunday.
So no, I don't think there is a thing wrong with what you are doing.
JMO

John 6:51-53
Jesus said if you don't eat of that bread,, you have no
life......NOWHERE in the bible does Jesus or anyone else lay out
specifics about how to take communion, only RELIGION does that. Jesus
didn't like the RELIGIOUS people much from what I gather!

Should not do communion now- until He comes. He came in 1963.

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Communion, to partake of communion/sacrament it's not necessary to have
a priest present. If you think about it was there a Bonifide priest in
the early days?

Its my belief that to partake of communion/sacrament is to ask for the
blessings of God and Jesus in accepting his body to your own in the
consuming of the piece of bread/wafer. Also I feel that in consuming the
water/wine that should also be given in communion/sacrament the same
acceptance is given.

In accepting these tokens I feel we are asking for the forgiveness of
sins we have commited, and to follow the teachings as best as we are
able to.

I feel it is necessary to have the items blessed by ones own thoughts,
and knowledge of what these tokens represent, and feel that if these
tokens are taken they are in remembrance of the Body And Blood of
Christ, that was shed for us on the cross centuries ago then a priest is
not necessary. Besides some of the churches I have attended do not pass
the wine/water. At that point its time for me to go elsewhere. Seems a
little selfish to me they don't pass it.

Spirituality is what is inside us, it is how we present ourself to
ourselves. To be spiritual is to walk the walk, not talk the talk.

I just wish I knew when to walk and leave the talking to someone
else.

G

i grew up a hard nosed baptist as we are called lol we did the bread an
the wine but wasnt wine as i recall think it was juice or something only
the members an the people who were saved as i remember took part . its
been a long time so forgive me if i didnt remember it correctly . seems
like they put the little peice of bread in one hand an the cups of wine
came on another tray an u took them both in one in one hand the other in
the other hand they said the verses about jesus an we ate the cracker
bread an drank the wine was a small peice of bread an small cup of wine.