Canticles, charisma and chat (Religion thread number 2)

[BaroqueAroundTheClock]

the first one is nearly full.

Anyone welcome, it's basically a "what happened in church/spiritual life/anything else you want to chat about that's vaguely related (or not) to churchy stuff.

of course they're not traditional Can you imagine Jesus handing round perfectly formed circles of pure wheat flour and water at the Last Supper

i meant traditional in a church ritual.

Probably why I don't like them, nickel

Have just finished that worship review I asked you all for ideas on in the first thread, it is going to DCC on Monday, so they can all laugh at me take my thoughts seriously and hopefully things may change for the good.

ooh, that sounds promising
let us know how it goes!

But they taste like limp cardboard!!

they're not supposed to taste of anything - they're a wafer - they're a physical representation fo the body of christ - hence the +
you wash it down with the wine.
that's all.
they don't need to taste of anything because they're not a physical food.

Jesus broke BREAD, BREAD woman BREAD - he didn't sit down and carefully prepare 12 perfect little wafers

yes, Jesus broke bread, but he talked about a representation of the bread.

it's just a church thing!

(my previous church did proper bread, but the one i was brought up in and this one both wafers)

anyone watchign would think we were having a huge argument about this - a new branch of christianity - those who believe it should be bread and those who beelieve it shouldbe wafers!

He also didn't buy a roll from Tesco and break bread with that either :o. Or drink from a silver chalice :o (or even wee cuppies, come to that! :o )

but don't ya think if God wanted us to use wafers he'd have said that "man shall not live by wafer alone - and would have made sure there were some wafers on hand for Jesus to use at the Last Supprt so that he could have "passed around the wafers" rather than bread

heheh. The Bread and The Wafers Division

Why are they not meant to taste of anything nickel? Jesus took bread and said eat it in remembrance. I'm sure it tasted of ummm...bread

Isn't a wafer some sort of bread anyhow? At least its not leavened, like some of the bread used at communion :o

Tesco! Pah you commoners - we don't use Tesco, or even Sainsbury or Waitrose bread at our Agage meal we have either homemade bread (not made in a bread maker ) or bakers bread

Your wee cuppies comment reminds me of when I was about 8 and we were still Methodists...........my mum was explaining communion to my then best friend and said about the bread and wine...............I piped up

"well it's not REALLY wine - it's just blackcurrant juice".............and got dagger stares from my other

other=mother

AND and AND - he didn't share out 5 wafers and 2 fish either

ha! One of my worship review proposals is that we have bread and not limp bits of cardboard and also use grape juice as well as wine as some of the children won't drink the wine. Looking forward to the fight on that one...

I remember going to a Methodist service as a teenager and for some reason thinking the 'wee cuppies' particularly hilarious, and spending most of the service giggling with my friend. How very mature.

yes - the little cuppies that methodists use - they're not even sharing then!!

god, i remember when we had that swine flu scare and they had to dip the wafer in the wine rather than give us a sip!

we won that one Baroque

ding ding

round three

we did actually have chapati as it's unleavened one year

right, but he also said "man cannot live on bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God"

Bread is merely a staple - any food we eat can be used as a representation of the food and drink used at the last supper.

New communion song

'Here is wafers, here is wine,
Christ is with us, he is with us
Taste this limp cardboard wafer, taste this wine
Christ is with us here.'

Same ring to it?

Hahaha

go on then nickel - I dare you to persuade your vicar to hand around bananas at communion on Sunday

True, true nickel

But wafers aint food. they is paper

[grin[