To: JenB
Actually the word "host" in that context is not the usual English word "host" (as in, "Pete was a talkshow host"), but an Anglicization of the Latin word hostia, meaning "victim," or more specifically, "sacrificial victim".
120 posted on
10/19/2011 10:28:31 AM PDT by
Campion
("Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies when they become fashions." -- GKC)
To: Mrs. Don-o
Meant to ping you on my last reply. Technically, it's not a host until it's consecrated. It's
"altar bread".
121 posted on
10/19/2011 10:34:03 AM PDT by
Campion
("Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies when they become fashions." -- GKC)
To: Campion
Then it’s even less appropriate for someone who disagrees with the Catholic teaching to call it a host, any more than it is right for me to refer to a pair of gay men as “married”. Not trying to be offensive - but one should not use words that do not mean what you want them to mean.
122 posted on
10/19/2011 10:37:28 AM PDT by
JenB
To: Campion
126 posted on
10/19/2011 11:07:47 AM PDT by
Salvation
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