The Parish Communion Movement arose from the work of the then ascendant Catholic wing of the Church of England; now with the ascendency of the evangelical wing in the Church, holy communion in church is (slowly) diminishing from use in the wider Church.
Look around you and you see this happening. If it succeeds then the Church will be on the whole diminished, as it retreats to the ritualists (like me).
(from today’s Fresh Expressions meeting)
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January 20th, 2012 at 10:35 pm
January 20th, 2012 at 10:36 pm
(sad face)
February 18th, 2012 at 4:27 pm
Odd. Here in the States it seems that virtually all Churchmanship factions have adopted HC as the normative service for almost all occasions.
February 18th, 2012 at 4:42 pm
I think it’s fair to say that the majority of CofE churches would view the Eucharist as normative for their major Sunday service. However, there are plenty of examples of exceptions to this – and the number of such exceptions to this is growing rapidly, due in no small part to the growth of non-sacramental, so-called “Fresh Expressions” of Church.
I’m emphatically *not* anti-mission, and passionate about meeting people where they are. But I am really concerned that a fashionable, quite possibly transient, trend is doing lasting damage to tried and tested methods whose loss might only be noticed when it’s too late. The Sacraments were ordained by Christ, and the Church forgets this at her peril.