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So I have been checking out Lutheranism after leaving Catholicism. Have not been to a liturgy yet, but watching some of the local ones on line.
I was AMAZED to see an altar rail, and people kneeling at it for communion???? From what I understand those were there to separate the people from the clergy /altar - as the clergy were "special" and could be there, but lay folks not so much.
I would have thought at the Reformation that would be one of the first things to go? Even most modern Catholic churches don't have them any longer.
Any thoughts? Makes me take a huge step back from Lutheranism.
I was AMAZED to see an altar rail, and people kneeling at it for communion???? From what I understand those were there to separate the people from the clergy /altar - as the clergy were "special" and could be there, but lay folks not so much.
I would have thought at the Reformation that would be one of the first things to go? Even most modern Catholic churches don't have them any longer.
Any thoughts? Makes me take a huge step back from Lutheranism.