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The bread we use looks and tastes like ordinary fresh-baked bread.
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The bread we use looks and tastes like ordinary fresh-baked bread..???
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.
Do you kneel at the altar or just walk through?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.
That is leavened. I.e. they used yeast.The bread we use looks and tastes like ordinary fresh-baked bread.
Do you kneel at the altar or 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.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.
That is leavened. I.e. they used yeast.
Interesting... But it is all about church tradition and not historical precedent.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.
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'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?
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.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:
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