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does any church give communion out every sunday besides catholic. and why do so many do it once a month?

At the Church I attend, we take communion about every 3 months.  I do enjoy it - the special rememberance - as Christ said "Do this in rememberance of me..."  It is always a special service.  Folks are asked not to partake if they have any "outstanding sin they have not personally confessed to, and discussed with, and asked forgiveness for" from Jesus.
For me, I think weekly communion would make it less "satisfying" (if I may use that word).  

There is only one church, the one Christ established. Your question makes it seem as if there are others. "does any church.......?"

When and how often did the church Christ established, remember Christ, according to scripture? Can a day and frequency of observing this remembrance be discerned from His word? Perhaps what is discerned from scripture on it should answer the questions.

Ollie

ollie you know what i mean.
you always have a way of cofuseing me more.
you enjoy it , dont you. if i knew the answer i wouldnt have asked the quistion.

but thanks all the same.
the reason i ask is im trying to covince my wife to shop for i knew church. she is use to the catholic church and communion every week.
so i would like to explain why others do it differently so she possible be open to other ways.

i understand that im not going to sound to bright by my next quistion but,... i thought connon law was from the catholic religion. are Anglican churches catholic?

I believe Lutheran churches do every week and believe in transubstantiation.

We attend a Lutheran congregation (notice I didn't say 'church', ollie!  ;)) and they do not have communion every Sunday. I believe theirs is every three months, but it may be just a local practise to do it that way. (More often we attend at a Reformed Baptist, and their communion is every month.) The Christian United Reformed church down the road does it every three months (but they prefer that those who take it are registered members of their 'church').

i sure do, but what wrong word was it?????

so does anyone know why "ROMAN CATHOLICS" parishes(not church) has communion weekly and others dont. were did this practice of doing it weekly come from.

so lets see if my little bird brain gets this , Anglican churches are catholic but have thier own canon laws. so if one was  Anglican , could they get married in a catholic parish(church of rcc)

Eastern Orthodox have The Eucharist every time they celebrate the Divine Liturgy.  In some monastaries that can be every day.  But most Orthodox Temples have it at least every week.

Hi Butcha!  When I first started attended the PLACE OF WORSHIP WHERE I NOW ATTEND....how's that Ollie?...I was surprised to find that the congregation took communion every Sunday.  My first thoughts were that the importance of that sacrament would be diminished and that it would become just another ritual.  I was mistaken.  I am not Catholic nor Anglican, but I have come to look forward to taking communion each Sunday because in doing so I am constantly reminded of the sacrifice my Lord Jesus made for me.  It is my special time (during the worship service) when it is just Him and me as close as I can be to Him in this world.  When I miss communion now..I miss it from the bottom of my heart.

thank you Threadbear
thank you ebia and everyone im truely grateful for your help . i have been going to the library , getting books but my life is crazy no time to read five kids and 2 jobs plus this is my busy season at work its been crazy. im a air-cond. & refrigaration mechanic for commercial building in boston

Sorry, I was not questioning your meaning. I was attempting to show you where the answers are.  "The Bible".


It is not intentional. Confusion usually comes from within one from not understandings a persons remarks.
That is a harsh judgement.   The answer to such is NO as my post was not intended as confusion but to lead to the source of all enlightenment. "The Bible".
I would pray that I donot confuse, but rather show the Lord Jesus Christ in my life.

  That is why I attempted to tell you the source for the answers to your question. "The Bible".

You are very welcome.
There is a source and reference that reveals Christ's church. "The Bible".
Read it study it and search out a group of people such as should be saved in Christ that are of the pattern given by/of God through the Holy Spirit.

You will find that by searching to and fro in "the Bible" that Christ's church
shared the communion every first day of the week in their public assembly.
Look for a church that identifies with Christ/God and His word.

Pray I unconfused you. The answers are in the Bible.

Ollie

ollie all jokeing aside , i do thank you for helping me ,thanks brother. :)

"We attend a Lutheran congregation (notice I didn't say 'church', ollie!  ;))"

When I was Lutheran we refered to the Lutheran organization as "the Lutheran church". I never could find "the Lutheran church in the Bible, but I accepted such before I really got down to business of studying the Bible and came to the conclusion that the church is God's through Christ and not Luther's.

 :)Ollie

"When I first started attended the PLACE OF WORSHIP WHERE I NOW ATTEND....how's that Ollie?..."

Not sure I understand what the intentions of your words are?
A christians place of worship should be within his inner self 24/7/365. However we assemble together to do it collectively a few times a week. The only difference being that we are sharing and offerimg the worship to God with those of like faith instead of as an individual.

Ollie

Many believe the breaking of bread on the first day of the week refered to at Acts 20:7 is the Lord's supper due to the fact that Paul admonished one congregation to eat their common meal in their homes and not at their assemblies thereby infering that the breaking of bread in Acts 20:7 is communion.

Ollie

im wonderring if you dont mind witch assembly to you go to?place of worship?

In the Early church (and still now for many) the Eucharist is the REASON for meeting. Of course, they did more then just had communion, however, our Sunday morning church stemmed from this tradition. You didn’t just have communion at the Sunday meeting in the early church, you had a meeting on Sunday morning for the purpose of communion.

 :)JudgeNot, I grew up in a Congregational Christian church where we also took communion every three months and I felt that it was a way to set that special time apart from the other services we had each week.  That was why I was unsettled at first about taking communion every Sunday.  Bottom line is I guess that it will be special whenever I partake but I do believe that as Tibby said that it may have been for that very purpose that the early congregations assembled in the first place.  To be together and remember His sacrifice.

Threadbear,
I'm not sure where the tradition of weekly communion came about - Tibby can probably fill in that blank, as a student he's pretty good with 'blanks' the rest of us wrestle with.
I know that Jesus, during the Passover, said "Do this in rememberance of Me".  But as far as I know, he didn't give instruction as to how often that should be: Just during Passover?  Quarterly?  Monthly?  Weekly?

Tibby or ML or Butcha or... (you note I'm asking Catholics  ;D) Can you help us out here?  Does it stipulate in the Bible how often we "remember" through communion?

In the original text, the word was much deeper then Remember. It would be better to define the word as “relive.” The word in the original text means to be taken back to the moment. I could pronoun the word with grace for you, but I’m not even going to try for a spelling! Besides, I’m not going to be into that debate.

The point is, I wish to relive that as much as possible. Experience the power of God, be allowed to partake of him, mind, body and soul. Most Catholic churches allow for daily communion. I believe doing so is part of the priestly vows, and anyone may come and partake with him if they so choose. There is a limit on WHO may partake, but I doubt there is a limit of how much.