Infants at the Lord’s Table

Here’s an interesting piece about the differences, East and West, of communing infants.

I remember going to hear Franky Schaeffer speak at a local Orthodox parish back in the early 90s, where he talked about going through instruction with his priest and puzzling over the Eastern custom of giving the Eucharist to infants.

“They don’t even know what it is!” he objected.

“Do you?” he priest retorted.

He was rightly and properly flummoxed.