Some Methodist churches celebrate the sacrament of Holy Communion every week while others celebrate this sacrament less often—typically once a month. John Wesley himself set great store in the sacrament of Holy Communion as a converting and sanctifying ordinance and practiced frequent communion. He received communion at least once every four or five days and daily during the twelve days of Christmas and during the octave of Easter. In his sermon “The Duty of Constant Communion,” Wesley says— "I am to show that it is the duty of every Christian to receive the Lord's Supper as often as he can. Let every one, therefore, who has either any desire to please God, or any love of his own soul, obey God, and consult the good of his own soul, by communicating every time he can; like the first Christians, with whom the Christian sacrifice was a constant part of the Lord's day service. And for several centuries they received it almost every day: Four times a week always, and every s...