Word: wafers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christmas ritual of Poland, the first rising star of Christmas Eve is greeted with the glad kolenda (carol) Wsrod Nocnej Ciszy (In the Stillness of the Night). Then the family hastens to table and partakes of the great Christmas wafer, symbol of brotherly love and forgiveness. Another kolenda, Bracia, Patrzcie Jeno (Brothers, Look Ahead), asks a blessing on this rite (and on a plow concealed under the table, so that the land, too, may be blessed). At pasterka, or midnight mass, the swelling Gdy się Chrystus Rodzi (When Christ the Lord is Born) is sung, and the carolers take...
Central act of the Roman Catholic faith is the sacrifice of the Mass, which commemorates and re-enacts the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the Cross. Central mystery of the Mass is the consecration, by the celebrant, of the Host (wheaten wafer) and wine, which become, according to Catholic belief, transubstantiated into the Body and Blood of the Lord, and are consumed by the celebrant. Later, smaller wafers ("particles"), which are consecrated (and thus transubstantiated) at the same time, are distributed in Holy Communion. There must be some left over, to be placed in the tabernacle on the altar. These...
...veils, the boys in white dusters, marched down four wide avenues to the great cross. There at the four altars four scarlet-robed Cardinals celebrated mass. Well-drilled, the 110,000 moppets rose, genuflected and crossed themselves in unison. When the moment came to partake of the consecrated wafer, 300 priests and monks distributed it in the vast crowd. Impressed by this gigantic act of faith, Cardinal Pacelli exclaimed: "This is heaven!" Afterwards, efficient nuns briskly served the children with hot chocolate and cakes. When the four Cardinals beheld this, they too wished to break their fast. Thereupon hot chocolate...
...will be infected by the blood of Our Lord!" Such a belief, though held by many pious folk, has no basis in church law or theology. In the Middle Ages communion was rarely received by Catholic laymen. Since 1414 it has been given "in one specie" only (the consecrated wafer), not for reasons of hygiene but because there was danger of sacrilegiously spilling the blessed wine, or of delaying the rite in presenting it to large numbers of people. The celebrant of the mass alone drinks from the chalice, save for the Pope in Rome. When he receives communion...
...common cup, who plan to take their battle to the Episcopal general convention next autumn, have no intention of departing from good Episcopal methods. They favor "intinction," as practiced in the Eastern Orthodox Church and in some U. S. parishes, where there are tuberculous communicants. By intinction, the wafer is dipped in the wine, handed by the priest to the communicant...