Since the Sunday after Pentecost is traditionally designated Trinity Sunday, I customarily post on this day a hymn with trinitarian structure...
While some churches celebrate Holy Communion every week, most Presbyterian churches do not. But today was a day when many churches do have the Lord's Supper – at Scots' we have it quarterly, on the first Sunday of March, June, September and December. But I was visiting another church this morning, where communion is observed on the first Sunday of every month. So I still got to "communicate", as the old divines used to say.
One thing I noticed in the church I visited was that rice crackers were passed around with the bread – so that those with a gluten intolerance would not miss out. This is such an obviously good thing to do, I'm surprised I've never seen it before in any other church. I don't know why that is – hopefully it isn't because people think actually eating the bread doesn't matter.
In a similar vein, we really ought to have grape juice available for recovering alcoholics who are unable to drink wine.
The other thing that struck me as a visitor in this service was that the pastoral prayer immediately followed communion. This is extremely appropriate, since the pastoral prayer is primarily concerned with the needs of the Body of Christ, and this is what we remember in the Eucharist.
A final, random, thought: one day when I'm presiding at communion I want to say that the Lord's Supper is for Christians, and therefore sinners – so if you're a good person who's never done anything wrong, please just let the elements pass.
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