Baking bread at two o'clock in the morning

[panoramicgreen]

It's a good thing I slept in this morning.  I had work, and then immediately two hours of yoga, and finally got home at 9:30 p.m., after stopping for the ingredients for bread.

We have Chapel four days a week, at noon.  (Apparently, back in the day when it was all young male seminarians, Chapel was in the morning.  But as things progressed, they

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[sachem_head]

At Trinity, they serve communion by intinction. So you get your piece of bread, then you dip it in the cup of wine (grape juice) and then eat it. They give you two options: you can take communion down at the stairs to the apse, or you can go up and kneel by the altar. I like the high churchiness of kneeling by the altar and being served by the minister, but we sometimes do the ushers as well.

It's quite different from being served in the pews like at a congregational church. Trinity also does open communion, offering the sacrament to all believers, not just to members.

I remember the two Catholic weddings I went to a few years ago. One was cousin J.'s wedding, when all the Catholics on the groom's side went up to take communion and all the Protestants on the bride's side stayed (I sensed somewhat uncomfortably) in their pews.

At the next wedding, of my friends T. and J. in Cincinnati, the old priest there offered to say a blessing to all non-Catholics who came up, in lieu of communion. So I went up and took that option and I really appreciated that he made it available to us.

[panoramicgreen]

At all of the Catholic services I've attended save two (both in my hometown), the priests gave to everyone. I think it's really becoming more and more an individual priest/congregrational choice, and not as closed as it used to be.