How to Take Communion During Covid-19
Grab your wine, grape juice, and pantry crackers: Sunday Sacrament might just be in your own kitchen
A lot of fuss and tsk-tsking is going into profiling churches that say they will continue to congregate in person during a time of Covid-19 — even as Easter Sunday approaches. But many churches have already figured out how to go remote and implement the all important Easter communion without spreading the virus.
It’s relatively simple, say Protestant and nondenominational pastors. They get on Facebook Live, Periscope, or IG Live and conduct their services per the new usual. And when it’s time for communion, they ask congregants to secure their own cracker or bread and juice or water and hold it up to the camera so it might be blessed by the pastor remotely.
Then, just like on your usual First Sunday or Communion Sunday service, the sacrament is eaten. And yes, say theologians, if you are participating in a remote church service, it’s okay to take communion remotely, and it’s okay to take it with whatever food or drink you have on hand.
“God wasn’t surprised by Covid,” says public theologian Ekemini Uwan, also known as Sista Theology. “We are surprised, but God is not, and God gives grace. It’s grace for you to have orange juice instead of…
