NoJoMo 7
Today was communion Sunday at our church. The new pastor has communion the first Sunday of every month.
Our church found that some members are not able to eat gluten, so they have a little cup of little pieces of gluten free bread bits in the middle of the plate of regular bread bits. The church currently uses plain store bought bread cut into little squares. I prefer the tiny wafer chips we once used, but I like the little bits of unleavened bread that I made myself a few times for the church I pastored in Taylorville. (Oddly, my spell checker doesn’t think “pastored” is a word.) When I saw how much an unleavened piece of bread looked like a flour tortilla I just bought those and cut them into small pieces with a pizza cutter. I didn’t like the pieces too symmetrical.
Some churches use wine. Our church uses grape juice. A few churches still distribute the wine/juice from a single chalice. Ours uses the much more common little plastic cups. I actually have my own communion service set with little glass cups. It had belonged to the little church I pastored that closed up. The laptop I am typing this on and that service were the two things I asked from the little church when it closed. Those were the only things I ever asked them for. They were such nice people. I miss them.
- Question? Why does Subway charge a whole dollar to make a sub into a salad? Does it cost that much more to put lettuce in a bowl than it does to put the meat, cheese, and dressing on a bun?
- An organism that waits for reality to adapt to it rather than adapting to reality will wait a long time.
- I believe that Socio-biology and the psychological concept of passive-aggressive behavior are the two best notions (among very few total…btw, why does amount have a “u” and among doesn’t?)…… that social psychology ever came up with.
- Our Bowlathon raised $1700 for MDA today. That is more than our local union often raises for MDA in a year.
- I rode in a friends mini pickup recently. It had two cup holders built in. She had added more. Not one more. Not two. But FIVE! She is single. The truck has two seats. What does one do with 7 cup holders? I asked her. I guess I just need ’em. She told me.
- Life is like archery. You should aim high (in an arch, therefore “archery”) to hit your target. -from my old coffee buddy, Joe-
Have a beautiful day.
When I was a little girl, my brother and I used to play Mass. Since he was an altar boy he had the words in Latin in his prayer book and could peonounce them. We used Wonder bread to make the hosts. If you press down on the bread you can flatten it and get all the air out. Then you can use a bottle cap to cut the hosts into perfect little rounds. We’d borrow one of my mom’s wine glasses to put the
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In our church it’s called “sacrament”, and they take pieces of bread and break it into small pieces before serving. We drink water in those same plastic cups.
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(cont.) hosts into for distribution. This was waaay before any wine or grape juice was ever offered to the parishioners. I used to love playing Mass.
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I use all the cupholders in my car for everything but cups, so I’m glad I have a few.
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ryn: since I don’t know what the speaker said, I’m not even going to attempt to tackle the subject. We do believe in eternal marriage (that’s one of the reasons for the temple). But since we’re all learnin together and the speakers are different every week and are assigned topics that they sometimes don’t know a lot about, you sometimes get talks that are not “polished.” But we’re polite and listen anyway because nobody knows when it will be their turn to be asked to speak. LOL!
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Apparently a lot of people agree with you about “passive agressive” — it seems like it is another copout to me and hey, I was once a psychology major. Anyway, I’m a bit like Nadia on Bitchin’ Kitchen (Cooking channel Wed 9:00 pm your time) — she prefers agressive-agressive! We find her hilarious. My kids say it is our “AGE.” 😀
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My church used pre-packaged communion… it’s a disposable cup with a wafer attached in plastic at the top. Handy, but not as nice as in the olden days 😉
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