[metmom]

Tell me, do Catholics allow people to "chew" on the Eucharist wafer now, because when I was a young Roman Catholic, it was forbidden to use your teeth and chew on the thing.

Forbidden was hardly the word.

It was a SIN!!!!

And those nuns struck the fear of God into you about it. They had you thinking that God would strike you dead for doing something like that to Christ's body.

You just had to swallow it whole, after you scraped it off the roof of your mouth with your tongue, where it stuck like it was super-glued on.

[RnMomof7]

And those nuns struck the fear of God into you about it. They had you thinking that God would strike you dead for doing something like that to Christ's body.

LOL...I still remember my "1st communion" the water founts were covered with purple covers (because in my day you could also not drink after midnight if you were going to communion)

And we too were forbidden to "chew " the wafer because jesus "might actually bleed "

[Iscool]

Forbidden was hardly the word.

It was a SIN!!!!

And those nuns struck the fear of God into you about it. They had you thinking that God would strike you dead for doing something like that to Christ's body.

Isn't that really peculiar since we have a Catholic priest here telling us that the word used in the scriptures to command us to eat the flesh of Jesus actually means to gnaw, rip, tear, chew and grind the flesh of Jesus before we swallow and that proves the verse is to be taken literaly...

[boatbums]

You just had to swallow it whole, after you scraped it off the roof of your mouth with your tongue, where it stuck like it was super-glued on.

I know! God forbid you tried to stick your finger in your mouth to dislodge it. Nuns were waiting ruler in hand to catch some poor kid at it.