Communion

[Cyzarine]

Do you think it is important? Is this a part of your spirituality? If it is what does it mean to you? How do you use it...in ritual or only through church?


Me, It is very important to me. I veiw it more as a way to connect with divinity...your deity. It is also a way to show honor for your deity. I do communion in my rituals. After the ritual workings and before I thank deity(deities) for being present. Even said, I do not feel that it should be taken all the time...but for me that is how I do it.

[CleftOfLight]

To me Communion in the sense connecting to God comes through meditation and prayer and that would be very important to me.

If you mean that bread they give you saying its the body of Jesus,then that is not important to me.I havent done that since I was like 13 or something.

[Mithrea]

Communion is a sacrament. The purpose of any sacrament is to bring you closer to God and reinforce the bond between God and yourself. Cakes and ale are pretty much the same as communion and I do share food with my matron as often as possible. So yes, communion is important to me. :)

[Ninjakitten]

I take communion as my cakes and ale part of my rituals (solitary, or I do so before I go to a ritual if I'm doing one with others and ask the Christ and the Diety to be with me), and I include that as thanks to the Christ for doing what he did while he was here, and to remember him. It is a way for me to reconnect with the Christ during my rituals and to reserve some special time to think about him, since I sometimes forget in my hectic life. For me, it's important, but it's one of those things that I wouldn't necessarily tell someone else it's important unless it's a method of reconnecting that would work to help him/her.

[Lovehound]

In the Episcopal Church, one can receive Eucharist every week.

I rather like that. It feels wonderful.

[ViolinGoddess]

Communion is important to me. It's a way for me to connect with God. THe rememeber what His sacrifice was for me. The symbolism for me eating of the bread and drinking of the cup means to me that I am apart of Jesus and He is apart of me.

Violin Goddess

[MariThorn]

When I first started on the witch path I believed what everyone said about communion (I am using that in reference to the Protestant version of the Eucharist.) That it was the same thing as cake and ale and that they had taken it from pagans. I don't believe that anymore. (First of all the Early Christians were Jewish and they took it from the Passover meal.) I no longer view the Eucharist as the same way a protestant (in this case I'm thinking Baptist as that is what I used to be) would. I see it as the literal eating of God and drinking of God and taking God's sacrifice into my body and carrying it with me through the day. It actually humbles me to think that God would do that to start with, and that it makes itself present in the Eucharistic species for adoration and so forth.

If gas wasn't so high, then I would take it every day. As my church offers it everyday. As it is, I take it whenever I can attend mass and my soul is not burdened with unconfessed sin that would mar the sacrament.

Cake and ale I have in my circle as a fellowship with the fae and so forth and to help all participants ground after raising power. I don't see it as holy or something that brings me into any special relationship with God like the Eucharist does. In fact, I don't think I ever have.

Marithorn

[LadyCelt]

Perhaps it is that I was not raised Chrsitian that I don't find communion to have the same importance some do. For me, it is symbolic. I cannot receive communion at Catholic or Lutheran masses since I am not confirmed in either faith. I don't know the rules with Greek Orthodox or Anglican. But, I've only bee to massses that were Lutheran or Catholic.

The communions of other denominations were symbolic, so nothing really literally entered into the communion. I probably won't know what it is like to have communion where anything is literally in it since I am not confirmed into those faiths. I would like to, but I can't.

So, for me, it is more symbolic than literal. For me, I am more about what Jesus means living within me than communion being the way. It is fine if others are into the eucharist for a higher level than me, but for me it is symbolic. And, it will have to stay symbolic since I don't see myself becoming confirmed to the denominations where it is literally God.

[Lovehound]

Perhaps it is that I was not raised Chrsitian that I don't find communion to have the same importance some do. For me, it is symbolic. I cannot receive communion at Catholic or Lutheran masses since I am not confirmed in either faith. I don't know the rules with Greek Orthodox or Anglican. But, I've only bee to massses that were Lutheran or Catholic.

The communions of other denominations were symbolic, so nothing really literally entered into the communion. I probably won't know what it is like to have communion where anything is literally in it since I am not confirmed into those faiths. I would like to, but I can't.

So, for me, it is more symbolic than literal. For me, I am more about what Jesus means living within me than communion being the way. It is fine if others are into the eucharist for a higher level than me, but for me it is symbolic. And, it will have to stay symbolic since I don't see myself becoming confirmed to the denominations where it is literally God.

To the best of my knowledge, any baptized Christian can receive communion in the Anglican Mass. I know this is the case in the Episcopal Mass.

[imapepper]

I only take communion at church and for me it's symbolic.

[HerbGurl]

Communion is important to me. It's a way for me to connect with God. THe rememeber what His sacrifice was for me. The symbolism for me eating of the bread and drinking of the cup means to me that I am apart of Jesus and He is apart of me.

Violin Goddess

I agree with what Violin Goddess said about Communion. It is a very deep connection with God, and reaffirms that I am a part of His living body on earth.

[EvaLaFay]

Communion is, in a sense, like working some kind of spell.

Many churches believe in transubstantiation, where through a miracle (magick if you prefer) that Christ becomes present at the table

But to sum up; Yes, communion is important.