The eating of bread and the drinking of wine in remembrance of Jesus' last supper. In Layman's terms.
Do you consider yourself to be a layman and are you saying then that to you, holy communion is a ritual?
What honeyfudge said, but also... ...the bread and wine under the power of the words of Christ himself changed into his Holy Body and Blood. It is also a sacrifice of memory (a memorial sacrifice) although it is not a bloody sacrifice in accordance to the Hebrew Epistle. It is a re-presentation, to the Father, of Christ's one and only eternal (back and forward in time) sacrifice.
I would not say I was a layman, it's just in simplistic terms. Communion, in reality can't be a ritual to me seeing as it's been over a year since I last received communion, and since I was a Catholic the times were I ave taken communion have been few and far between. What Ukr-Cdn is the Catholic tradition of communion, but I as a non-Catholic do not believe the bread and wine are Jesus' body and blood, just a remembrance of Him.
How would you consider this issue if it were understood that every word that we use represents a state of being. For instance the word chair represents a state of being, an article of substance. How would you regard the issue if holy communion were a state of being in whole communication with the divine?
You're doing it the ... Zen Buddhist way with immediate experience of the Morals of the World.:toetap05:
Nothing is hidden. What are you attempting to do? Why are your efforts frustrating you? Conditions are conditional. We are focused upon an embodied condition.
