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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Episcopalian is the closer to Catholic as far as the service itself. 
They do communion weekly and I know Methodists do it monthly because that’s the way it was back i[b]n the day of the preacher going from village to village. 
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Not village to village. It derives from here in the States.  Methodist ministers were "circuit riders" who moved from tiny churches dotting the midwest and west on Sundays (via horse). Communion (and baptism and weddings) could only happen when the minister was present.  Here's what the Methodist church says:

As Methodist clergy in the late 1700s, when the denomination first got started, a pastor who could administer communion and baptism, was on a circuit traveling around. They might be going to 12 different places. They may be going to 20 or 30 different churches on their circuit, which means they couldn't be in church every Sunday. So what happened was, the pastor always gave communion when he got to a church. And he might get to that church once a month, maybe once every 2 months. We were used to that and then as our pastors went on shorter and shorter circuits to ultimately just serving just one or two or maybe three churches, that habit has just stayed with us. So our communion happens maybe once a month in some churches. In some places it's maybe 3 or 4 times a year. And it's just part of our history."

My Methodist church served it only once every three months.  Just habit.[/quote]

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