*Sigh.*
Hello, everyone. I'm new, and I have a family drama.
I am a Catholic. My aunt, my mother's big sister, is an Episcopalian, and (since her daughter converted to Catholicism) a pretty anti-Catholic one at that. Now, she likes to show this not (in my presence) by saying rude things, but (in my presence) by belittling things that Catholics hold important. Such as, the distribution of communion only to members of the Catholic Church-- which she chose to ignore at the Baccalaureate Mass before my convocation from my BA.
So, now I'm getting married in five months, and I can only imagine that she's going to do the same. Should I just cut & paste the USCCB notice on communion into the program, and hope she did this in ignorance last time? (I doubt it, although it's possible...)
Should I put something more pointed? (As my fiance converted from Anglicanism, I was thinking of putting, "please respect our beliefs, and the challenges we have faced to be able to receive communion together," but that might sound like he had to go kill dragons, rather than just sitting through four months of RCIA.)
Should I tell the priest, "under no circumstances give communion to the tall blonde lady with a beatific grin?" That will just create more drama, of course, when she is refused.
I love my aunt, and she's just getting battier and battier as she gets older (a tendency to which I can attribute some of this); all the same, if she does try to receive communion when we've put a notice in the program, I really don't know how I'll ever speak to her again. Other, of course, than shouting, "that's THE BODY AND BLOOD OF MY LORD you're desecrating there!"
She's my mother's elder by 11 years, so there's not much hope of her deferring to a polite request from my mother to please keep her opinions out of it, either-- if my mother would even ever have the courage to say something to her big sister!