Why Can\u2019t My Son Receive the Eucharist<\/a>, which gives a catholic case for children participating in the Lords\u2019 Supper\/Eucharist\/Communion.<\/p>\nGotta love this quote from Augustine: \u201cYes, they\u2019re infants, but they are his members. They\u2019re infants, but they receive his sacraments. They are infants, but they share in his table, in order to have life in themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
The issue of paedocommunion has been a big issue in American Presbyterianism in light of the \u201cFederal Vision,\u201d however, in the Anglican tradition there has been much more of an openness to it.\u00a0In my\u00a0<\/span>Evangelical Theology<\/em> I have an extended discussion on the topic where I come out in favor of it.\u00a0<\/span>Any way, I loved Keating\u2019s conclusion:<\/span><\/p>\nPerhaps now is the time to rediscover the practice of infant communion. Pope Francis has said that the Eucharist is \u201cnot a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak.\u201d He has also written in his Apostolic Exhortation,\u00a0The Joy of the Gospel<\/em>\u00a0that, \u201cThe joy of the Gospel is for all people: no one can be excluded. . . . Everyone can share in some way in the life of the Church; everyone can be part of the community, nor should the doors of the sacraments be closed for simply any reason.\u201d\u00a0In the meantime, I hope that my son will always desire Jesus in the Eucharist as much as he does now. He has been asking every Sunday for many months \u201cIs the Eucharist for me?\u201d but last Sunday he stayed quiet. I think he has finally realized that the answer would always be no.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nWould anyone like to team up and write a catechism for children preparing them to take communion?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over at First Things, there is an article by Anna Nussbaum Keating on Why Can\u2019t My Son Receive the Eucharist, which gives a catholic case for children participating in the Lords\u2019 Supper\/Eucharist\/Communion. Gotta love this quote from Augustine: \u201cYes, they\u2019re infants, but they are his members. They\u2019re infants, but they receive his sacraments. They are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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