Numb3rs fic: "Tonight" (Terry, Don, could be read D/T. PG)

[sororcula]

Title: Tonight
Characters/Pairing: Terry, Don (can be read as Don/Terry), OMC
Rating: PG
Summary: He tells her on a Sunday.
Word Count: 725
Spoilers: none
Prompt: 22 at the numb3rswom3n fic challenge: "Life kissed her however it could." - Vanna Bonta
Notes/Warnings: Unbetaed, technically speaking, but thanks to elysium1996 for reading through the first draft. Some

Comments

[emmademarais]

Lots of lovely bits in this. You even made me kind of like Terry. /grins/

BTW, what denomination is that? I don't recognize the communion ceremony.

[sororcula]

Thanks. I'm glad I could make you like her, if only for a few minutes. ;-)

I made her Catholic. (I make everybody Catholic, when I get the chance.)

[emmademarais]

She takes the wafer amen dips it in the wine amen puts it on her tongue and crosses herself. Brings her hand to her lips, presses a kiss to her fingers. Automatic.

I'm not aware of this being part of the Catholic ritual of communion. Have you a source that they practice intinction for lay people? And the lay people can dip it themselves? The kissing of the fingers is also foreign to me.

I mean I know they changed their practices from the old days when lay people were not permitted to touch the host at all and had to receive it only on the tongue and not in the hand. This just feels too formal and elaborate, even for the Catholics.

[sororcula]

Well, as a disclaimer: I'm not baptized and so have never personally received communion. But I've attended a Catholic church my entire life, and this description was based on what I've witnessed there. Not everybody dips the wafer--in fact, I'd say probably the majority of people at my church drink from the cup, but a lot of people dip it.

The kiss is less common, and I wasn't taught to do it when I cross myself, but I still see it a lot. A Google search turned up this page. I've always kind of liked the image of it, and it worked well with the prompt.

[emmademarais]

They drink from the chalice? O.o

What kind of Catholic church is it? It would shock me if any Roman Catholic parish allowed lay people to drink from the chalice *or* do intinction themselves.

If so, wow. I'm shocked.

The kiss I've seen, though not in concert with communion. It reminds me of kissing the cross on the end of a rosary and as I understand it the thought behind it is the same.

[sororcula]

LOL! Now I'm wondering what kinds of churches you've been to. How do you see communion done?

It is a Roman Catholic church. It's Paulist, if that helps? It's a big church, so instead of one cup, the wine is poured into several glasses and the bread separated into a few bowls and Eucharistic ministers spread out at the top of each aisle. Communicants can choose whether to dip the wafer or sip from the cup.

And yeah, it's true, the kiss isn't super common with communion, but I have definitely seen it done. Like I said, it worked with the prompt. ;-)

[sororcula]

Oh, hey. I've thought of this comment occasionally over the last month, and I'm genuinely curious about this; would you mind e-mailing me sometime with a brief description of how you've seen communion done at Catholic churches? I want to know why you're shocked! :-)