When your wife has that much money and they won't even give you a wafer, or a drop of communion wine, then you may not actually be "in good the good graces" of The Church. **Didn't I read somewhere that Kerry had been denied Communion?
**Probably the only real problem that Ted has is that he wants his wafer and a 5 liter box of Communion wine so he can "have one for the road".
*(Not many Priests (or some of the rest of us) will refuse a nip of spirits on a chilly day, either.
One ancient Priest told me one blustery day as he had a nip with my grandmother, it's good for arthritis, all things in moderation and why don't you go play with the other children? :-)
One good thing, quite often when there it's not bingo night, they will invite AA groups to use the church's recreation area to have their meetings.
When we were received into the church, we gave the priest a bottle of good old vintage port (Taylor Fladgate '77). His eyes shone with anticipatory joy (let's recruit more and better Anglicans with good taste in wine!)