Shoemaker considers the small change to be a way to serve all people. “It compels us to consider every individual. Some may hear the numbers and say ’Gosh, it’s a small amount of people, why ...

Only three percent of the 170 worshipers at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church need special bread for Holy Communion. But the Rev. Adam J. Shoemaker, who serves as rector, said it's not about the numbers.

Individual cubes of bread also became common. In the 1960s and 1970s, liturgical reforms resulting from Vatican II spread from Catholic into Protestant churches, questioning both the grape juice ...

The diocese has also suggested that churches suspend taking communion by intinction, which is dipping the bread into the wine during the Eucharist so both are taken at the same time.

The practice of using matzo for Communion is deeply connected to the Passover element of the Last Supper. In the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, during the Last Supper, Jesus breaks some bread ...