What is, “Mommy, I don’t want that man to stuff bread in my mouth.”
There’s a story here.
We have been visiting various churches in our town recently. It has been a really neat learning experience for our family–seeing worship styles we have never been exposed to before. This morning we decided to visit an Episcopal church. We were preparing the children for the Eucharist because two of them have never had the Lord’s Supper before, and we were fairly certain that it would be offered. We explained that most likely, we would go forward and that the priest would place the bread in our mouths. This was obviously concerning to Sally.
I am happy to report that first of all, the priest did not in fact, stuff bread into anybody’s mouth. He carefully placed it into our open palms as we knelt at the altar. Then a challis of wine was brought, and we dipped our bread into the wine (and no, it wasn’t Welch’s, like we get in our usual church) and then ate it.
As soon as the bread was in her mouth, Sally made a face, fanned her mouth, and whispered loudly, “That bread is DISGUSTING!”
Watching two of my children take their first communion was a beautiful thing, even if they slightly missed the point of the whole thing.
December 7th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Well I can not imagine any even with Sally NOT being beautiful!
December 9th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
I love it. No religious pretense or anything–honest and real. =)
December 12th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Sounds like Sally can always be counted on to say what’s on her mind!
Long time ago when I was in 4th or 5th grade, my dad went through a spurt of dropping us off at the Unitarian church for Sunday School, and I vividly remember that one of the things the teacher had us do as a class was to visit the worship service of other churches. It was a neat thing to do.