Remember these folks in your prayers. If they can make it to the monastery to purchase communion wafers, they can also linger for a while in the chapel and attend Mass.
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Posted on 12/27/2005 1:24:24 PM PST by rasblue
Remember these folks in your prayers. If they can make it to the monastery to purchase communion wafers, they can also linger for a while in the chapel and attend Mass.
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We went there recently and were somewhat disgusted they have a LIGHT SHOW in the Montreal Notredame cathedral now for like 20$ a person.
It's a piece of bread.
The Catholic faith in Quebec was certainly pervasive, but it must not have been very deep for it to have disappeared so thoroughly. I am reminded of our many "Catholic" politicians here in the US who have made Abortion Rights their #1 cause. It seems to me they must have spent a lot of time in their youth building up the kind of resentment against God that they currently display.
Isn't the the punchline to a really off-color Methodist joke?
These recipies all seem like they would be invalid matter. But what do you expect from a group that wants one of the four sins that cry out to heaven for vengeance to be treated as normal.
It's stories like this that makes me shudder, that really clueless fundamentalist Christians are indistinguishable from the muslim kind.
It's not really a big deal. When I was an altar boy in the 60's, and had to do early Mass, I didn't have time for breakfast. The priest let us eat handfuls of unconsecrated wafers just to get something in our stomachs.
Exactly. They're not hosts until a priest performs the sacrament.
Plastic cheese? Now there is sacrilege!
Good one!
Just a type of bread until it is consecrated, so it is no big deal.
AND
I've heard they drink wine too. Do they have no shame?>>>>
And BINGO was his name-o!
I give up. How do you construe this article to involve fundamentalists, especially clueless ones?
Sacre bleu!!! And next thing you know, those secular descendents of Frogs will be using (gasp!) water! The very same Eau that is used for Holy Water! Quelle debasement!
Nobody anywhere in the world should be allowed to use l'Eau since it is the same thing as Holy Water, except it isn't blessed... and it isn't used in church ceremonies... and... and... ummmmmmm, nevermind.
Geez, get a life! Or at least grow some thicker skin and quit being offended by all things. It's amazing to what lengths some people will go to be offended. It's just flour and water.
And fer yer info, I was an altar boy and I happen to like the taste of the wafers. If I was in Sous-Frogland, I'd buy a bag of 'em fer a snack. Doesn't mean I'm being sacriligious, any more than drinking H2O does.
Oh, and by the way, The Globe and Mail got it right with their headline "Wafers sold as snacks showing mass appeal" where you obviously didn't with yours: "Sacred Host Sold as Snacks in Quebec". You might try sticking with the verbatim headline when you post, instead of letting your bias creep in. We have enough of that kind of thing with the LSM now.
You gotta stop thinking of it as cheese and think of it as it's own, well... food is probably not the proper term here. Sort of like, "I like hamburgers but I also like Big Macs" or "I like pizza but some Pizza Hut also sounds pretty good right now."
:-D
This in particular is a non-problem. Unconsecrated bread is just unconsecrated bread, similar to matzoh or oplatke.
Much more serious is the total, god-awful depressing secularization of the entire Quebec society. It was spiritual sui-genocide or geno-suicide. They went from being one of the most devout Catholic cultures on earth, to being as cold and sterile as Sweden, almost overnight.
Plus of course now they have a birthrate so low it virtually guarantees their extinction. So crazy: they get all militant about preserving the rights of their Francophone culture, but they neglect to do the one thing needful for their future: produce another generation of Quebecois.
I researched and wrote an article about it 20 years ago, but I cannot say I understand it. If anybody could point me to a good article or book on the subject, I'd be interested.
I spent the better part of a year about 40 miles north of Montreal in the late 1980s. There are many, many churches and almost all were boarded up. I attended a little Anglican church in St. Sauver and, I swear, I was the only person there younger than 60.
It's only bread until it is consecrated into the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
Just bread on the shelves. (But it is a little screwy.)
NOT CONSECRATED! Therefore, it is just a cracker.
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