Communion Details
We are greatly looking forward, God willing, to the communion next Lord’s Day, when the sacrament will be dispensed at the morning service.
The Kirk Session will be delighted to meet with anyone wishing to take communion for the first time at any of these meetings of Session. Those who wish to join the communicant membership and have a certificate or letter from their previous congregations, are also encouraged to meet the Session at any of the meetings so as to be welcomed by them.
As a result of the Covid situation we have had to introduce a number of changes relating to the communion, as set out in the points below.
- To reduce personal contact to a minimum we will not be using communion tokens, so there will be no need for communicants to wait behind after the service on Saturday evening.
- As at present in our services, we will leave an empty pew at the communion table between those occupied and, except for family groups, we will ensure adequate space between communicants in each occupied pew.
- The bread and the wine will be on the communion table from the beginning of the service, rather than after a “fencing” of the table as previously.
- We will be using individual cups for the communion wine and the bread will be distributed to communicants in a way that ensures each individual communicant alone will have hand contact with the piece of bread they will use.
- Immediately before the bread and wine are dispensed, the minister will specify how these will be distributed by the elders and received by communicants, and how the empty cups will be collected.
We rejoice in this renewed opportunity to remember the Lord’s death in the Supper, thanks be to God! Its absence from our practice over the past two years has convinced us, more than ever before, of how much we need it as a channel of grace to our souls, along with the preached word. Our earnest prayer is that the Lord will be with us to bless us by word and sacrament to the praise of his glorious Name.
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Shaun Libby
