ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS PLEASE NOTE:
The proper preparation for receiving Holy Communion is: 1) prayer; 2) keeping
the fast throughout the year (Wednesdays, Fridays, Great Lent, fast of the
Holy Apostles, fast of the
Dormition and the Christmas Fast, etc); and 3) most important, participating in
the Sacrament of Holy
Confession and Repentance. ALSO follow these guidelines as you approach
for Holy Communion: Take the
red cloth from the person before you and place it under your chin. Say your baptismal name.
Open your mouth wide and receive the Holy Spoon in your mouth, lower your lips on the Holy
Communion spoon and carefully remove the Holy Eucharist so that there is nothing left.
After partaking of the Sacrament blot your lips and hand the red cloth to
the person behind you. Receive
one piece of antidoron, return to your seat and read the post communion prayer. Lipstick,
lip gloss, lip balm, etc, should be removed prior to approaching the chalice. Receiving the
precious Body and Blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ should not be treated like a fast food
service. You should come on time for the Divine Liturgy (that means at
the
beginning) and not leave
until the completion of the service. This means that every time you eat this
bread and drink from this cup you
proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. It follows that if anyone eats the
Lord’s bread or drinks from his cup in a
way that dishonors him, he is guilty of sin against the Lord’s body and blood.
So then, everyone
should examine himself
first, and then eat the bread and drink from the cup. For if he does not
recognize the meaning of the Lord’s body when he eats
the bread and drinks form the cup, he brings judgment on himself as he eats and
drinks. That is why many of you are sick
and weak, and several have died. If we would examine ourselves first, we would
not come under God’s judgment. But we are
judged and punished by the Lord, so that we shall not be condemned together with
the world. (1 Corinthians
11:26-32).
At the time of communion,
please allow families with infants to approach first, followed by the children and then the
adults.
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