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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am Catholic - my in laws are Methodist.

We are raising my daughter catholic. [/quote]

Then a) It wasn't communion according to the teachings of your church, it was a snack of bread and grape juice.

b) Either they knew enough about Catholic teaching to know that what they were doing was obnoxious, or they didn't have a clue.

What is their knowledge of Catholicism?  Have they been disrespectful of your religion in other ways?[/quote]

Not disrespectful, but...they are not fans. They know that we've been planning for her first communion. [/quote]

If they knew you were preparing for First Communion, their actions sound very passive aggressive.  I would be really upset if this happened to me and my kids.[/quote]

I'm the PP who posted about not knowing I couldn't take Catholic Communion until my brother married a Catholic. I know my niece is preparing for her first communion.  My recent experience is at Methodist and Episcopalian churches. With my knowledge that Catholic Communion is this special thing that only Catholics can do and that they believe in a literal transubstantiation, until reading this thread it would literally have not occurred to me to keep my niece from participating in the Episcopalian communion if she had come to church with us.

Of course while we belong to a church it's more for my husband's beliefs than mine and I'm not particularly religious, so it's entirely possible that in this case it was in fact a passive aggressive jab at OP's beliefs. But in general I like to go through life assuming the best of people and their motives, so would suggest to OP that for the sake of family harmony she chalk this up to ignorance / thoughtlessness on her IL's part and just clarify with them and with her daughter that she wants her daughter to wait to take ANY kind of communion until after her Catholic First Communion.[/quote]

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