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To: NYer
'altar breads that "appear to the senses as bread"'

What's wrong with the plain ol' communion wafer we all know and love? The church I was baptized in uses a "more breadlike" host these days and I nearly choked to death on it the first time I took it.

72 posted on 05/01/2002 1:28:00 PM PDT by GenXFreedomFighter
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To: GenXFreedomFighter
What's wrong with the plain ol' communion wafer we all know and love?

But ... what would you be 'thinking' as you received such a Host?

Now ask yourself 'what would I be thinking when I received 'altar breads that "appear to the senses as bread"'?

Then consider one 'reason' given for removing statues and images in the sanctuary: that they confuse or distract the faithful from the actions at the altar.

Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is ...
73 posted on 05/01/2002 1:44:35 PM PDT by Mike Fieschko
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