How Often Should One Commune?
this if the communicant is sorry for his sins. This requirement is far more in keeping with the holy canons, besides helping a person to maintain reverence for the great Sacrament. Still more helpful in this regard are the Service Book’s suggestions of pious contemplation of the greatness of Holy Communion and the redeeming feat of Christ the Savior. By so doing, the pious Christian will avoid both the Scylla of “hobnobbing with God”, characteristic of the Reformationists, and the Charybdis of the Pelagian attempt at self-salvation demonstrated by the communoclasts.