My father is an Anglican Priest (termed Episcopalian for our US friends). This church also practices the Eucharist and takes Communion. As with Anglicansim and some Catholic churches a visitor to the church may approach the altar for a blessing. This too however is out of the question for me.

This graduation is for a small town farming community and is likely at a Cathollic or Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The people in these communities around here tend to be so steeped in tradition and how people ought to behave that, believe me, my not going up for even a blessing would cause quite a stir.

Thankfully though we have our out to not attend the church portion and can, relatively safe from enquiring minds, just attend the ceremony.

I do wonder if this is a problem simply unique to small town Saskatchewan?