Hello all.

Vernon, your right about some protestants being foolish about closing the table. It's kind of sad. That said, most protestants don't put nearly the emphasis on communuion as Catholics do...and I have never heard of a mainline that did.

While I have also heard of closed, and closed closed, tables among Baptists, the closed nature of Catholic communion is...well, it is a BASIC point of their communion. A Baptist church with a closed, closed communion would not deny the validity of another Baptist churches communion. If your Catholic, you see validity in only Catholic communion (maybe...maybe Orthodox).

Karen, I don't mean this meanly...truly, I don't, but I have never heard of a Roman Catholic church that would welcome ANYONE to communion who was not RC. That just ins't news. If they did, they were breaking the rules. That said, I am sad that your friend sent you that message. I can tell you that it hurt...and, you were right to be hurt. I am sorry to see that.