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Originally Posted by GeekyPenguin
It's really common at the churches in the midwest to see a lot of couples where one goes and one doesn't. At my church in Minnesota there were a lot of interfaith couples so they started offering a blessing at Communion to those who crossed their arms rather than stuck out their hands or their tongue.
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I live in an area that is very evangelical Christian, and not very Catholic. I am a funeral cantor so it is extremely common for most of the congregation at a funeral to be non-Catholic. Our priests offer the crossed-arms blessing to them if they care to receive it. On regular Sundays all children who haven't received First Communion go up to get that blessing as well. (I never did growing up, but I grew up in a very Catholic area in a different part of the country. I think it is a nice cultural gesture.)