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Originally Posted by BrokenNBeautiful
I was at church today and tried to take communion and flubbed it. I was supposed to dip the bread into the wine and instead popped it in my mouth. At my other church, we ate the bread then drank the wine. So I ate the d bread, then went to drink the wine and the lady said, "you're supposed to dip the bread in the wine".
I was so embarrassed. I am afraid they wont' want me back.
I did not go to fellowship hall afterward; my face was flaming and I was in tears.
It was not about the lady; I was having a bad flashback. She was nice. But I felt unworthy and disgraceful to the church.
I still have not recovered from that today.
It's amazing how bpd and ptsd still affects me today.
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That method of communion is called intinction. Honestly, MANY people screw that one up because they are used to the other way. Heck, I've done that myself. In fact, my husband did just that on Christmas Eve. Our church only used intinction when there is a really large crowd, so we always get confused on the few times a year we do intinction. Nothing at all to feel embarassed about. It is a simple mistake, and one that communion servers have seen many times. All you needed to do was ask for another wafer and then dip it. It would have been no big deal.