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[dramaturgy]

Call me a crazy, liberal Methodist who is going to be the down fall of Christianity... but let the girl have her communion wafer that won't endanger her life. I honestly doubt the Father would care and isn't his opinion the one that counts, anyway?

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Interesting...

[mhw]

http://www.dioceseoftrenton.org/department/news_detail.asp?newsid=1005

Though I don't know whether it'll still contain too much gluten for her or not.

*wry smile* This takes me back to when stgpcm and I first met, and he was explaining that when he was a teen his church celebrated the Eucharist with blackcurrant juice (strictly no booze for God's Elect!) and Ryvita crackers. And - somehow - it still managed to seem weird to me. Though, to be honest, I think juice and crackers would have probably tasted better than out Church of England wafers and wine.

Sheesh. Maybe 2000 years from now someone'll be arguing over the doctrinal correctness of pizza and beer, which is probably what today's Last Supper would be.

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[dramaturgy]

::dies:: Dude. Can I stick the last part in metaquotes?

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[mhw]

But of course!

*hugs*

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[inkandalchemy]

Seriously? The (Methodist) church I grew up in uses Chips Ahoy cookies and milk for communion.

I'm loathe to think what the Catholic Church would have to say about that one.

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[mhw]

Same as they would for anything that doesn't fit their doctrine - see the link that I posted at the beginning of the discussion. Satan-inspired Idolatry, it seems.

Yeah, I know that I shouldn't have been surprised at the Ryvita and Ribena Mass, but all my formal religious exposure as a young'un was to High (very High) Anglicanism - it just really hadn't occurred to me that anyone might celebrate the Eucharist with anything other than wafers and (not very nice) wine.

But milk and cookies! That's lovely, but I think that I might be misled by expecting a bedtime story and a kiss goodnight afterwards :)

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[inkandalchemy]

Satan-inspired Idolatry... *shakes head* I'mma try to be polite and not say what I'm tempted to on that count. >.<;

I think it's perfectly understandable that someone brought up in Catholicism might be surprised (even shocked) at the use of anything but the standard wafers and wine. After all, when you're a kid, rules are rules and they DON'T get broken (or at least, not by the grown-ups...)

*chuckles* Well, they get the bedtime story! Children's Time (a part of the service where our pastor condenses and rewords his sermon into a children's tale) usually comes right after Communion. But, unless they get them from their parents, I fear they're sorely lacking in the goodnight kiss department. ;o)

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[dramaturgy]

I bet there's a special circle of Hell for people who use milk and cookies at communion that Dante didn't even know about.

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[inkandalchemy]

*snerk* Hmm... maybe I should go double-check my Bible for that one. ;o)

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[stgpcm]

Not me pet - we were drowners not heretics. Diced sliced white and alcohol free red wine (served in glass thimbles). You're the one that called it Ribena.

Although in Sunday School we used Tuc biscuits and ketchup to 'understand' the last supper, so perhaps thats where you got the Ryvita from.

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[mhw]

*grin* Sorry, sweetheart. Hm, so if it wasn't you, I wonder who it was? I definitely do remember being amazed at the Ryvita and Ribena sacrament that someone told me about.

Sliced white? Leavened? You little heretic, you! if you're going to do that, you could have at least used nice home-baked wholemeal...

I'm not sure that Tuc biccies and ketchup isn't even weirder, though :)