The Breaking of Bread on Sunday morning is the Brethren service and the one that most surprises visitors. The assembly sits, usually in a square or circle around a table bearing a loaf and a cup, and waits. Any brother may give out a hymn number, read a passage, pray aloud or speak; there is no order, no leader, no rota and no notice. Long silences are normal and are not treated as failures. The loaf is broken and passed from hand to hand, each person breaking a piece; the cup follows. Sisters do not speak, in almost all assemblies, on the reading of 1 Corinthians 14 — and in most they wear a head covering, on 1 Corinthians 11. A separate gospel meeting and Bible reading fill the rest of the Sunday. In the Open assemblies reception to the table is decided locally and is generally offered to any believer in fellowship; in the Exclusive line, reception in one assembly binds all of them.