Hm...I guess the title is a bit misleading. I'm sure you all know that the communion wafer is technically not Jesus yet before the consecration, but below is an interesting article about one company which basically has a monopoly on the altar bread business.
Every now and then I've stopped and wondered how we ended up with these really neatly shaped wafers with a cross in the middle. Most of the time, I just receive it, let it fill me up, but never bother to think about the accidents (physical traits, including chemical properties) themselves. It's funny that recently, I've heard critiques about these communion wafers and how they are barely bread like. Some people have even said that it takes more faith for them to believe that it's actually bread than the body and blood of our Lord, Jesus Christ. =P
http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2008/11/30/breaded_bliss/?page=full
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Whoa!
I seriously never thought about this before... we should take a field trip there
haha! thanks!
WOW. I've never had a wafer with a lamb imprinted in it before.
While I was reading, I thought to myself, No wonder it takes so much faith to believe that the host could become Jesus; after all, it began as just a circular thing made of flour, water, and wheat. It just struck me how strange it would seem to someone who doesn't believe. The details on the machinery involved made the making of the host all the more "unspiritual", but that makes the Consecration of the Host all the more amazing, doesn't it?
Thanks for the article!
Actually, it's funny b/c in APEnglish, my teacher (she was raised Catholic) mentioned in our class discussion about transubstantiation. I guess her word choices could have been better (it has really weird connotation), but it wasn't wrong either: "drinking the blood of their savior Jesus Christ"
and, well, it kind of freaked out some people in my class.
And that leads me to the same conclusion that shammy said, that it "makes the Consecration of the host all the more amazing"
Haha, that's awesome Claire! What did you guys discuss about transubstantiation? Did you put in your Catholic two cents?? =)
we were discussing the our diction essays; and this girl's intro on her essay studying the words religion and cult was a description of her observations @ a Bible camp that her parents sent her to (she's atheist); she described the activities done and said from "any casual observer, it would seem more like a cult than a religion" (something around those lines).
and that's what reminded my teacher of transubstantiation, but since it was a quick side comment, i didn't have a chance to throw in my 'two cents' D:
that class's discussion goes way too fast for me
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