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--- Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@hidden.email> wrote: > > 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) Well, I had stated earlier, that it was "the head of the household" who read out the text, and a married woman would not be considered the head. However a widow would be: certainly if none of her sons were of an age, and likely even if they were and still under her roof. I suppose, in the latter case she might *choose* to turn the duty over to her eldest son, but I don't believe custom would require it. I suspect, now that you've mentioned this, that the Jewish custom of having the matriarch bless the Sabbath might cause raised eyebrows in Carraxa. That even though single women and widows are admited to the clergy and married women serve as deaconesses. Adam Jin nifalud fistus todus idavi eseud adimpuudu ul isu fi aved niminchunadu pera ul Dju peu'l medju djul provedu cumvi dichid: �I�i! Cunchepijid ed nadajid il virdjini ad junu huiju, ed cuamajuns ad si il Emanueli fi s�ivigad ul Dju simu noviscu.� Machu 1:22-23