Spooned out
“This is a two-thousand-year practice of the Church. There is no other way of receiving communion in the Orthodox Church than with a spoon,” an expert told the portal ahead of Easter 2021 Free Europe.
Novak Djokovic knows that too. On Thursday, the best tennis player in the world, who is currently recovering from the exertions of his Australian odyssey in his hometown of Belgrade, attended the liturgy in the Temple of Saint Sava. There he received communion like numerous other believers – from one and the same spoon, which Patriarch Porfirye personally served, like hundreds before and after him. There is no trace of a recommended mouth and nose protection. None of the numerous believers in the video.
The deputy bishop of the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church published a video of it on his Instagram account. “To health and salvation,” wrote the Pope appropriately.
