Reply #3: You are allowed to take communion even if it is your very first time that

[bobweaver]

you have set foot in an Episcopal church. At least that's what they said at the one I went to. This is very different from the Catholic communion in which you have to have all the proper preparations before you can take communuion. The mass in the Episcopal church is very similar to the Catholic mass in structure. It seemed to take longer, though. One thing I noticed is that for every hymn they sang, they sang every verse that was printed in the hymnal. At the Catholic masses they often sing only the first verse or first two. At the Episcopal they sang every word that was on the page.