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...same time to create some authority for parochial idiosyncracies. Thus they arranged for an alternative marriage service in which they might omit the word "obey." And they provided for the "reservation of the Host," already practiced by some priests. "Reservation of the Host" means that the wafer consecrated at a mass preserves its sanctity, can be set aside (reserved) and carried to those unable to attend church services...
...Lord's Supper, Mystery, Sacrifice, Love Feast-the Eucharist has many appellations according to its different aspects* it is at the very centre of Catholic belief. It yields nothing to the allied mystery of the Trinity. The very body and blood of Jesus are in both the consecrated wafer and the wine. Catholics can think of no means too simple or too subtle to honor...
...Barton, No. 3, sprained three vertebrae in his neck in a boathouse accident. Harvard men were not so ready to bet on their crew after that, and indeed their caution seemed justified. The Princeton crew took the lead from the start and, moving beautifully over a lake like a wafer of aluminum, stood a length and a half ahead at the mile mark. The Harvard stroke got faster, the Harvard shell moved up, half a length behind, to even terms, and-at the finish-a quarter of a length ahead...
...Nein!" thundered the green-police. To them the portly wafer teemed with untold cubic centimeters of explosives. Excited, they bore the package gingerly into "a courtyard surrounded by high walls." There they discovered that the senders of the package had given as a return address the name of the respected Prince Bakery in Salsburg and had cunningly concealed their death dealing substance in a juicy cake...
...face like a soiled lemon wafer...