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On Apr 20, 2005, at 11:26 PM, Adam Walker wrote:
--- Padraic Brown <elemtilas@hidden.email> wrote:--- Adam Walker <carrajena@hidden.email> wrote:This is the only day of the year when Eucharist is taken in the home and included as part of a meal. Otherwise it is a rite performed in the churches by the clergy and administered to the faithful. Each family tends to have a certain Gospel which is tradition within that family to read/recite from on this night.
But doesn't a (qualified and spiritually whole) priest still have to consecrate the bread in advance? Or is the father allowed to do this once a year?
You're probably right. In my church background any individual believer can bless the bread and wine, in fact, at many of the communion services I have participated in each believer consecrates his or her own elements. I'll have to formulate a Donatist doctrine to resolve this question. Can the father be considered the priest of the household for the purpose of this most holy communion? Since he will already be performing some other priestly duties in simply distributing the elements and reading the Scripture. And what about a widow, would she be permited as well? I think yes on both counts, but this isn't set in stone yet.
So a married woman would not be able to bless the bread and wine?
-Stephen (Steg)
"only the extremes are logical;
but they are absurd."
~ samuel butler