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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
COMMUNION is meant to be just that - amongst other things, a sign of those who, in the case of the RC church, are in communion with the Church. If you are not in communion with the Roman Catholic Church, be it because you belong to another sect or know yourself to be in a state of grave sin, don't believe in the real presence or aren't a Christian, you don't take communion. To do so would be to do what this thread started out being about - to take something which is a religious tradition (in the case of communion, a sacrament) infused with a very specific meaning and purpose and to adopt it for another reason.
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Except in the situation in which it was brought up here, it's not really the same:
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Originally Posted by ellebud
At the wedding that we attended where everyone was offered communion (the Archbishop specifically invited all: Christian or Jew, Catholic, Muslim or atheist) . . . .
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That's a different situation -- it's not people adopting the rites or rituals of another religion for their own purposes, it's people being invited (however incorrectly) to participate in the rite of another religion by someone in that religion. (And, of course, I'd say there's a difference in non-Catholic Christians and non-Christians when it comes to communion in the Roman Catholic Church. That notice in the missal does provide for non-Catholic Christians to take communion under specific circumstances.)
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