Frequency of Holy Communion

How often does your church celebrate Holy Communion?

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I thought you said you pinched off a piece of fresh baked bread? That sounds leavened.

We use matzah. Before, we used crackers or those tasteless wafers.
The bread we use looks and tastes like ordinary fresh-baked bread.
 
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My Methodist church has a wide variety every time -- get in one line if you want to drink grape juice from a common cup, another if you want a little plastic cup -- you already could have got either a tasteless hard wafer or a piece of regular bread -- and sometimes you can dip a piece of bread into the common cup -- that is a popular method.
 
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My Methodist church has a wide variety every time -- get in one line if you want to drink grape juice from a common cup, another if you want a little plastic cup -- you already could have got either a tasteless hard wafer or a piece of regular bread -- and sometimes you can dip a piece of bread into the common cup -- that is a popular method.
Do you kneel at the altar or just walk through?
 
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Do you kneel at the altar or just walk through?

If you are heading to the section of the little plastic cups, you get one and a cracker/bread, and kneel at the altar, eat and drink. If you go the Common Cup route, you do the eating/drinking standing up, but you can still go to the other side of the altar, kneel and pray, which most do. But some just walk through.
 
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If you are heading to the section of the little plastic cups, you get one and a cracker/bread, and kneel at the altar, eat and drink. If you go the Common Cup route, you do the eating/drinking standing up, but you can still go to the other side of the altar, kneel and pray, which most do. But some just walk through.
When I was growing up, we'd do quarterly Communions and kneel. Now (1800 miles away) we have monthly Communions where we walk through, though you do have the option of kneeling, and a few do.
 
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That is leavened. I.e. they used yeast.

Using leavened bread is pretty standard though. That's what is used in the United Methodist Church. The Catholics generally use wafers, but the Orthodox use leavened bread called prosphora made with four ingredients: white flour, salt, yeast, and water:

Holy Bread Bakers

There's an article here explaining why it has to be white flour, and not whole wheat:

Why Prosphora Must Be Pure
 
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The Nazarene congregation I attended as a child used wafers.

Since it was at Passover, I find leavened bread to be totally unsuitable. Every congregation I have attended since high school has used either unleavened wafers or broken matzah.
 
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There's an article here explaining why it has to be white flour, and not whole wheat:
Interesting... But it is all about church tradition and not historical precedent.

Proper matzah has only 2 ingredients: wheat flour ground within 18 minutes of harvesting, and water.
 
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Interesting... But it is all about church tradition and not historical precedent.

Proper matzah has only 2 ingredients: wheat flour ground within 18 minutes of harvesting, and water.

Technically, it's much more than that, and there is even strong evidence that the bread used at the Last Supper was ordinary every day bread, and not unleavened bread, based on the Greek words used:

The word for unleavened bread in Greek is AZYMOS it is used in the Greek New Testament nine times: Mt.26:17; Mk.14:1,12; Lk.22:1,7;Ac.12:3; 20:6; 1Cor.5:7,8.

The word for leavened bread is ARTOS it is used 97 times in the Greek New Testament.

Matthew 26:26 (In Greek)

26:26 ἐσθιόντων δὲ αὐτῶν λαβὼν ὁ Ἰησοῦς *ἄρτον* καὶ εὐλογήσας ἔκλασενκαὶ δοὺς τοῖς μαθηταῖς εἶπεν λάβετε φάγετε τοῦτό ἐστιν τὸ σῶμά μου

Eucharistic Bread: Leavened or Unleavened? · Preachers Institute

In all these places, the writers never say Jesus took AZYMOS and blessed it, they write that Jesus took ARTOS, common ordinary leavened bread.

The use of unleavened bread in the Catholic church didn't start until the 9th century.
 
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Technically, it's much more than that, and there is even strong evidence that the bread used at the Last Supper was ordinary every day bread, and not unleavened bread, based on the Greek words used:

The word for unleavened bread in Greek is AZYMOS it is used in the Greek New Testament nine times: Mt.26:17; Mk.14:1,12; Lk.22:1,7;Ac.12:3; 20:6; 1Cor.5:7,8.

The word for leavened bread is ARTOS it is used 97 times in the Greek New Testament.

Matthew 26:26 (In Greek)

26:26 ἐσθιόντων δὲ αὐτῶν λαβὼν ὁ Ἰησοῦς *ἄρτον* καὶ εὐλογήσας ἔκλασενκαὶ δοὺς τοῖς μαθηταῖς εἶπεν λάβετε φάγετε τοῦτό ἐστιν τὸ σῶμά μου

Eucharistic Bread: Leavened or Unleavened? · Preachers Institute

In all these places, the writers never say Jesus took AZYMOS and blessed it, they write that Jesus took ARTOS, common ordinary leavened bread.

The use of unleavened bread in the Catholic church didn't start until the 9th century.

It would have been unthinkable to use leavened bread at Passover. Whether or not the Christian Eucharist matters to use leavened or unleavened bread is another matter - but during that time of festival it would be unthinkable for a Jewish person to be using regular leavened bread.
 
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It's been a while since we've seen this topic. I was wondering... How often does your Methodist/Nazarene/Wesleyan church celebrate the Sacrament of Holy Communion?

Twice a month; morning and evening.
 
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there is even strong evidence that the bread used at the Last Supper was ordinary every day bread, and not unleavened bread, based on the Greek words used:
The Hebrew blessing over matzah (unleavened bread) is the same exact word as for leavened bread: “... ha motzi lechem min ha aretz.” It would read “... motzi matzah ...” if it was differentiating. But it does not differentiate; there is no need to at Passover, since leavened bread is forbidden.

So why would those who recorded the scene in Greek be required to differentiate when the source language does not?

CONTEXT. No leaven was allowed in any of the dwellings. And if Our Lord allowed it, it would have been a serious sin and a disqualified Him from being our sacrifice. But that is a discussion for a different folder altogether.
 
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