The Body of Christ is People!

[captainsblog]

And I mean that in the Soylent Green sense.

I get the obligatory emails of Church Bulletin Bloopers, most of which I suspect are faked. This one isn't.  Ever striving to be inclusive, we typically offer a plate of gluten-free communion bread for those who are allergic to the traditional wheat pita kind.

Or at least until this week we did:



Come back next week, when we'll be featuring Sloth free bread as part of our "Seven Deadly Sins And We Really Mean Dead" series.

Comments

[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

*chortle*

I presume this is Episcopalian? The Catholics officially deny that anything gluten-free can be Christ: it has to be wheat. I don't know what the Vatican has said about tasty, well-marbled gluttons, though!

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Methodist, actually- that lot even the Epissahs find to be too flaky.

And ooh! I forgot to give you your icons! (http://captainsblog.livejournal.com/620746.html)

[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

A good set! As soon as I figure out how to embed them in a post...

[ellettra.livejournal.com]

hahahahahahaha. awesome.

[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

Ok, tears nearly fell down my cheeks as I read that. Is your wine intoxication-free?

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Welch's right out of the can.

The founder of Welch's Grape Juice (http://www.gbod.org/worship/default_body.asp?act=reader&item_id=1743) was an enterprising 19th century Methodist from nearby Westfield, New York, who made a killing on Holy Communion (appropriately enough) for more than 100 years by swaying the church fathers to mandate the use of unfermented juice during the sacrament. The official prohibition on Jenuine Jesus Juice was dropped a number of years ago, but every Methodist Church I've ever communed in still follows it.

My first Lutheran service, sometime in mid-teens, was quite the revelation. Fortunately, it was some Manischevitz-tasting crap, so I never got in the habit of sneaking extra Eucharist before happy hour.

[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

Ah...well as good Epsicopalians, we use the real deal, complete with Holy Water additives!

[booklady.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

LOL! Actually, it's very difficult for me to eat bread and *not* be gluttonous, so maybe I need the glutton-free bread. It could certainly help my thighs...