There’s knowing what communion is, and then there’s knowing what communion is. I’ve known it’s something that happens in a church service for a long time, and that it was something Jews shun, along with all the other things that happen there. Somewhere in my early thirties or so, I sussed out that it’s a metaphor for taking Christ into yourself, and probably within seconds learned people believe it literally, and think this belief should be respected. I don’t respect it. I do respect that old traditions have meaning for a lot of people.

That’s what I know. As for what communion really is… if you have a clear, non-waffling explanation besides “a tradition and a metaphor,” it’ll be the first I’ve ever heard.

Though… are you saying you do not know what communion is?

I am sure that there are aspects of Christian worship that are befuddling to a visitor. I just assumed (clearly erroneously) that Christianity has had such prominence in culture that people would know communion when they saw it, even if they didn’t “get” it. Just from seeing it in a movie or something.

Mind you, it is good for me to have that illusion shattered.

An added wrinkle to this is that she actually grew up in a church. I didn’t recognize the denomination; it must have been one that didn’t do communion, or not often.

We’re all weird.