[Mark75]

I think I'll post this question here. I thought about posting in the christianity section, but I'm interested in what my fellow AAs think.

I recently converted to catholicism. My wife has been catholic her whole life and our four kids were raised in catholic schools, pre K through 2 kids in college presently. My conversion was something that I was considering for a while. The process became part of my early recovery.

For those who don't know, the Eucharist is central to mass, and catholics believe that the bread and wine are not a representation of the body and blood of christ, but in fact, are... It was this belief that took me many years to understand and embrace.

I took the wine (a taste, not a drink) at my first communion. Since then until last week, I only took the wafer... I took the wine last week, it was in a spiritual setting and really didn't seem that I was taking any risk... it is, after all, the blood of christ. It was meaningful.

At my Monday home group, one of my support group, a guy with 24 years and the sponsor of many, and, I guess, my "grand" sponsor... came up to me. He was at the mass I was at. He asked me about communion. He saw me take the wine... He was trying to be helpful... he said I shouldn't...

Now, I had decided myself, that I didn't need to do that regularly, but I feel that I have the same privilege as any catholic, and that is what was important to me, not so much that I do... know what I mean?

I am disturbed... I appreciate this guys concern, I like him a lot. I don't know how to feel about his comments.

I know how I feel about communion, I am secure in that and have made my own peace with it.

Mark