How important is the Eucharist to you?

martinedwards

Catholics have Holy Communion every Mass

Anglicans maybe half their services

Methodist once a month or so.....

Presbyterians twice a year

Some free churches never seem to have communion at all.

Is Holy Communion a big deal to YOU?

Peregrinus

Well, I’d be slow to jump to any conclusions about importance.

In my youth I had a friend who was a member of a Methodist congregation in the border counties. In that congregation it was the custom to celebration the eucharist four times a year. When, in my callow ignorance, I suggested that this meant that the eucharist was relatively unimportant to them, she was horrified. On the contrary, she assured me, they took it very seriously indeed. For a month before the eucharist, their Sunday services would involve spiritual preparation for up and teaching about the impending celebration and why it was significant. And for a month afterwards, they would be reflecting upon and giving thanks for the eucharist they had celebrated. And then, after another month, the entire cycle would start again.

In other words, it wasn’t that they thought the eucharist was unimportant. They thought it was very important indeed. They just didn’t want it to become routine.

lazybones32

It is very important...central to my spiritual Life.
However, I think daily Communion is a relatively recent practice in the RCC, while some South Pacific Islands still only receive it a few times a year.
Every now and then, I refrain from receiving, purely out of respect. I'd hate to take Him for granted or become accustomed to the point of negligence.
I don't know how the other branches of Christianity view the breaking of the bread - whether they consider it really His flesh or just symbolic

georgieporgy

I would have to say it is the most important thing in my life.

MRnotlob606

it is the the keystone of Christianity

indy_man

Luke 22

19 Then he took the bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which will be given for you; do this in memory of me.”


Very important.

indy_man

"Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me." -John 6:53-57

martinedwards

but then the thief on the cross didn't get communion before he died......

lazybones32

martinedwards wrote: »

but then the thief on the cross didn't get communion before he died......

But Christ said "Today, I tell you, you will be in Paradise with me" but Scripture explains He spent 3 days in the world of the dead preaching.

One verse of Scripture can often be contradicted by another verse somewhere else.

martinedwards

But Christ said "Today I tell you, you will be in Paradise with me"

makes sense if you drop the comma.......:P

IvanIV

martinedwards wrote: »

But Christ said "Today I tell you, you will be in Paradise with me"

makes sense if you drop the comma.......:P

Paradise is not exactly the same thing as Heaven. Paradise is the Garden of Eden that was taken off this earth at the time of the flood. According to some people the souls of unBaptized infants and those who kept the law upon their hearts though were not Christian will inherit Paradise in the Age to come.

Also the good thief on the cross beside our Lord died under the Old Law. We live under the New and also many centuries after the cross over period ended with the destruction of the Temple.

homer911

Any discussion of God and Time has to consider that God lives outside of Time and space. God has always been and always will be. "Today" means little in this context.