Communion is important- should we not eat before receiving?

Phronema · May 8, 2020

dzheremi said:
Do EO still hold an Agape meal after their liturgies? Just curious.

ArmyMatt said:
normally it's coffee hour. in my experience, the communal meal after Agape Vespers is called the Agape meal (at least, formally)

I'll just add that at the parish I attend we do call it "coffee hour", but there's almost always a meal associated with it that's brought in by members of the parish, and the vast majority of the parishioners will attend, and eat together after the Divine Liturgy. That especially applies to feast days.

ArmyMatt · May 8, 2020

Phronema said:
I'll just add that at the parish I attend we do call it "coffee hour", but there's almost always a meal associated with it that's brought in by members of the parish, and the vast majority of the parishioners will attend, and eat together after the Divine Liturgy. That especially applies to feast days.

yeah, that's generally what I have seen.

George95 · May 9, 2020

Phronema said:
I'll just add that at the parish I attend we do call it "coffee hour", but there's almost always a meal associated with it that's brought in by members of the parish, and the vast majority of the parishioners will attend, and eat together after the Divine Liturgy. That especially applies to feast days.

We have coffee hour at our church and parishioners who are scheduled for that week to handle coffee hour may bring fruit, sweets, vegetable trays, along those lines.

Anhelyna · May 9, 2020

In normal times [ you know what I mean

] we have 4 Liturgies/week and always have coffee after them. Saturday however is very different as that's the day we can have the use of the Cafe that is normally used by the University Students Mon-Fr from 10- 13.00

Saturday is lunch and real chatterday

We have lunch - groaning buffet tables style lunch - and believe me a small group of mixed , Slavs, Greeks, Syrian etc etc really can, and do, put on a wonderful spread.

SeekingGloryOnThisJourney · May 9, 2020

Anhelyna said:
In normal times [ you know what I mean ] we have 4 Liturgies/week and always have coffee after them. Saturday however is very different as that's the day we can have the use of the Cafe that is normally used by the University Students Mon-Fr from 10- 13.00

Saturday is lunch and real chatterday We have lunch - groaning buffet tables style lunch - and believe me a small group of mixed , Slavs, Greeks, Syrian etc etc really can, and do, put on a wonderful spread.

For some reason I feel hungry...

E.C. · May 9, 2020

Anhelyna said:
In normal times [ you know what I mean ]

Anhelyna, this is TAW! You know better than to say "normal" around here!

prodromos · May 10, 2020

SeekingGloryOnThisJourney said:
Communion- a sign of remembrance of the Body and Blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Communion is the receiving of the body and blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. How long was your catechism before you were received into the Orthodox Church?

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