Canticles, charisma and chat (Religion thread number 2)

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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.

actually, it does fit the music!

Ha!
plus, let's use a proper communion hymn

Let all mortal flesh keep silence
and with fear and trembling stand
ponder nothing earthly-minded
for with blessings in his hand
Christ our god to earth descended
his full homage to demand

but he didn't use just any food he used bread >

lol at bananas

You could have a second verse

'Here is bananas, here is wine

(etc)

getting carried away now

do those boldings (!) mean that you're telling us to shut up, get our head of the clouds and count ourselves lucky

we don't do fodo that goes off.

there, that's an advantage of wafers - they don't go off in 3 days like bread does

(and bread doesn't rise again after the 3 days either!)

(dunno what fodo is - i meant food)

Quiche! Yes, you could have quiche

Here is quiche, here is wine

yup!

i've got to go home!
don't carry on the blazing row debate when i'm not here! i'll come back to discover you've all agreed i'm mad and need to be committed!

hahahahahaha @ keep silence

wafers don't rise again neither. so there. And bread should only be used for one eucharist, so don't need to 'keep'.

real Christians don't eat quiche.

Our wafers are quite nice actually. We don't have the cardboard cutouts, we have the light melt in your mouth ones. Wouldn't feed a hungry apostle though!

in our church ,we have to ahve "reserved sacrament" because we only get a priest every 2 weeks (while we're in the naughty chair interregnum), so we need the "bread" to last at least 10 days (and we have wednesday communion, so it's 3 services)

they only started using wafers because of the issue of bread not keeping..........we're a bit better at keeping food fresh these days

aha! so you admit to there being a practical purpose!

yes but they weren't traditional they used to be practical- now they're just cardboard.............and even the nice soft melt in the mouth ones go cardboardy if you don't use that batch up quick enough

We have reserved sacrament too, stored in an airtight ciborium in an aumbry. We also have a Wed service (led by yours truly today) from the reserved.

Oh and that parish administrator's position is mine, at least for the moment (3 month contract) :). Thank God, the money will come in handy! :)

Wow! You lot have been v chatty!!!

Interesting bread/wafer debate.
For me, it needs to be unleavened bread as that is what was used at The Last Supper. Wafers fit that but I'm sure there is a more bread like substance that would do too. We always use wafers and I think it is partly because they are unleavened and partly because it is easier on a practical note with the reserved sacrament.

Can't remember who posted the "Let all Mortal Flesh Keep Silence" but that is one of my favourite moments of our Easter services, when we sing that very solemnly.

All a bit hectic here this week. Out last night and tonight with RCIA stuff. I'll fill you in on that another time if people aren't familiar with it / if you're interested!

Wishing you all an Ash Wednesday and Lent full of blessings!

Oh that's great Mary, well done! :)

dh has just let the side down by citing that wafers are 'very useful for counting numbers of communicants'

Cross posted, Mary - great that you have the position on trial! Hope it all works out :)

Hi SES :)

RCIA

rite of catholic initiation something?

hmmmm....can't remember.....

Well done Mary! Glad you got the position.

I'm firmly in the bread camp (we have nice homemade brioche type stuff) but am prepared to accept that Jesus was probably using unleavened bread and the practicality of wafers. I wonder if there are communities round the world that use other things (rice?) although you'd rather loose the 'sharing' aspect.

I think Methodists probably win for the tidiest communion - we used to have not only the little glasses but also a white sliced load cut into little squares to be handed out. No messy ripping the bread apart there

Yay to MHD's DH! He ought to know! I trust you're going to acknowledge his position in the household by now agreeing with him??

Just back from the Ash Wed service, suitably penitent and ashed :( (thats me being penitent, rather than sad)

Well done Mary. Welcome to my world!!

As for the bread vs wafer debate, the only time I had a wafer it got stuck on the roof of my mouth and I was gagging! Avoided like the plague since!!

Good old bit of bread for me, any day!

After 3 months, they'd like the job to go to a local, although I wouldn't automatically be ruled out of the position. My job will be mostly setting it up and getting it to run smoothly.

The good (or the bad) thing is, they already know my family circumstances, including that I've got an operation coming, that I'm on the autistic spectrum, etc etc, and that is still OK. :)