The Internet is a giver and at places like Kingdom, purveyor of Spanish media ministry supplies, some of the finest audio equipment around and pre-filled communion cups, you can get ENRAPTURED by inspiration for your next soirée.
While it does freak me and my baptized, confirmed, heaven-bound soul out that you don't need a special license or credentials to buy pontiffish things, like gluten-free communion wafers in bulk AND with a coupon code, everyone needs to check out these trays. I'm tickled in the way that Madonna must've first been when she strung a couple thousand rosaries around her neck to accessorize and look fetch.
I ALREADY HAVE a full set of Le Creuset even the trivet and paté thingie that I store teabags in but now I have a whole new category of things I get to want, like stainless steel, tarnish-free, stackable communion ware sets. I think you can pull the lining out and use it as bento. OR, keep the lining in and make escargot bourguignon in the divots or make a party tray of shots at your next party. So gothic lolita. Loves it.
"This is the last time you may see this code."
"Communion Wafers from Kingdom.com are made by the Cavanagh bread company and are rubrically correct. The carefully prepared sealed edges prevent crumbling, making these wafers perfect for intinction."
I'll take a carton of single-serving peel-back-and-holify barbecue-sauce-to-go containers filled with Jesus's blood for my glovebox, please, Amen.
did you notice all this stuff is totally circa swine flu? the priest doesn't have to touch ANYTHING?
Praise the Lord and when everyone stops leaving the house at all, priests can get all meals-on-wheels and staple a couple body-and-blood carry-outs to this persuasive delivery system: http://www.kingdom.com/Praycation-Door-Hanger-Insert-p/dhi26.htm
Hands up if you had to look up "intinction" and also if you love really specialized words like that
Witness!
Between this and the Scocca/Gessen tit for tat, I've looked up more words than I have in the last year!
Intinction Donuts just wouldn't have the same ring.
Intinctin'
hobnobs are best for intinctin'. digestives are rubbish.
But do you have a monstrance? It was the centerpiece for a dinner party I attended recently.
"Jesus, Mary and Joseph, would you take a look at these bargains!"
I didn't think it was possible to love you more, but oh, would you look at that??? it actually turns out that now I'd like to co-habitate with you!
(Fun fact! Communion wafers make an excellent base for homemade nougat. I learned this from a neat online Canadian friend, who referred to the wafers as "hostie", which, like, hi? So cute, the Canadians with their silly language!)
Even cuter: in Montreal, they have a whole archaic system of mild church-based curse words: hostie, sacrement, tabernacle, calice, etc.
Ha! In French or in English?
Well, let's say "Quebecois." You know how they get.
Oh, in Iberian Spanish, "hostia" is a big bad curse. Which in itself is a subsitute for "joder" (fuck).
Even cuter: in Quebec, they have a whole archaic system of mild church-based curse words: hostie, sacrement, tabernacle, calice, etc.
Christ! Sorry about that.
And peanut butter. A relative worked in a church in NY and brought home hosts. They're creepy blessed or un-.
I once had an Orange Le Creuset tea kettle. I lost it. I miss it.
I still can't get over "kingdom.com" - pretty amazing.
While spending a couple of weeks in Tokyo in the winter of 2005, I made the terrible mistake of having a "fling" with someone who took my friends and I to a "going away" dinner of sorts in this monstrosity called Christon Cafe in Shinjuku, Tokyo. My friends were looking out for me as they didn't react as they should've, which is to exclaim WTF in Vulgate.
I haven't seen that woman since. Thank God.
Peep game: http://www.notquitenigella.com/2008/07/08/christon-cafe-at-shinjuku-tokyo/
Wow. It's like the Bizarro World Buddha Bar.
SO EXACTLY what I was going to say! But I had some glitchy read-only problem. Thank you for being on my wavelength.
Back in high school, we used to steal the pre-transubstantiated communion from the supply closet and munch on them like Wheat Thins during lectures about how pre-marital "petting" was the moral equivalent to a three-way with an aborted fetus and Rob Halford.
Oh, Catholic school.
Heh, yeah i exsanguinated the Blood of Christ from the little mini-fridge more than a few times when Monsignior had his back turned.
Time to be annoying and technical! (I write about churches for a living, God help me...) Pretty sure none of this stuff is Catholic, where the congregation processes forward to receive. These are trays for communion distributed to the faithful while they're still in their seats - take one and pass it on. Like the Baptists do it. So: no transubstantiation, no priests, no claims of Jesus' blood actually being present, etc.
Sorry. I'll go away now.
WAIT A MINUTE. YOU ARE USEFUL. I HAVE QUESTIONS. So then why do baptists take em if it's not to eat jesus?
Baptists, and other Protestants, believe the Eucharist to be a symbolic re-presentation of the Last Supper whereas Catholics believe it to be actual transubstantiation. So the Ps think it's just a symbolic cannibalism whereas the Cs think it's actual cannibalism.
Mary, even the lowest of low-church Protestants have our mail-order fun, too, even if we don't transubstantiate!
And DO scroll down ...
Oh, I'm delighted to be of use. Sam Han is right, though Catholics would dispute the cannibalism charge even as they claimed to be actually eating the Man-God. Often, during the Protestant service, communion is preceded by the Gospel account of the Last Supper, emphasis on the part where Jesus says, "Do this in remembrance of me." The taking of communion is treated as a trigger to memory, an act that will call to mind Christ's redemptive sacrifice, and hopefully stir the heart to gratitude and love. There is rarely any talk of the bit from John's Gospel where Christ says "He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood will have life everlasting."
INTERESTING NOTE: I go to a lot of different churches, Catholic and Protestant, as part of my job, and it's only in the Protestant churches that I ever hear the text from Paul about "he who eats and drinks unworthily does so unto condemnation." At first blush, it seems like this sentiment would make a lot more sense if you really thought you were eating God - making your body a physical dwelling place for the Almighty.
@libmas I was semi-joking about the cannibalism charge. (I actually think cannibalism is given a tough rap!)
Good point re: Paul's text. I believe there is some debate about "open" as opposed to "closed" communion, the former allowing anyone at church on that day, believer or not, to receive communion, the latter only being restricted to those who consider themselves "saved." It depends on the liturgical strictness of any given church, I suppose.
Sam: understood on the semi-joking. I get you on the open v. closed communion thing, but I've heard Baptists go off on even those who considered themselves saved, warning them not to receive unworthily - even as they struggle to explain just what it would mean to do so.
But I'm really gonna stop now. Cheers!
furthermore, cannot be catholic because grape juice? catholics like their blood of christ with some kind of alcohol content.
We Episcopalians in particular are pretty sure that if it's non-alcoholic, it's both unholy and not worth drinking.
Where is a good Counter-Reformational Inquisition when you need one?
I clicked through mostly to give a shout out to the FOTC reference via the title.
And then there was all this randomness here and lo, it was good.
I'm lazy and too tired to check so I hope no one else has posted this: Tom Leher, "The Vatican Rag". Weird that my parents were practicing Catholics but loved this LP and played it for us kids. I guess that's what you call a liberal education.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f72CTDe4-0
Enjoy!!
I loves me some Tom Lehrer.
That was part of my Catholic education too!
Did MK Choi just spill the beans on Urban Outfitters’ next showpiece gag-gift? No dorm room is complete without one.
This brings all new meaning to the so called Doctrine of Accidents. Substantia panis materialis et similiter substantia vini materialis remanent in Sacramento altaris.
Transubstance abuse? Not unless you’re ordained.
Now, Lord, let your servant go in peace; I have seen Scholastic theology in the comments section of the Awl.