Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: jao@tekcrl.labs.tek.com (John Ockerbloom) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Receiving the host Message-ID: Date: 29 Jul 90 19:21:13 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 29 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article you write: >[Have I told you about the incident in which an Episcopal priest >managed to consecrate and serve shampoo? --clh] No, I don't remember you mentioning it here before, but there's got to be a good story behind that one. I'd be interested in hearing more. John Ockerbloom ============================================================================== jao@tekcrl.labs.tek.com ockerbloom@cs.cmu.edu (forwarded) ocker@yalecs.bitnet (fwded) 14245 SW Walker Rd. (#15), Beaverton, OR 97006 [I'm not much of a story-teller, so this is going to be sort of abbreviated. This was told to me in college by a fellow who was the son of an Episcopal pastor. His church served a white wine that came in particularly handsome containers. The pastor's wife decided that one of the containers would look nice in her boudoir, so she appropriated an empty one. She ended up putting shampoo in it. The pastor noticed the container at home, full of a liquid that look roughly the same as the white wine, and concluded that somehow he had mistakenly left one at home. He took it back to the church. You can imagine the rest. He used it on a Sunday when he had a bad cold, so he was unable to smell the fact that the liquid was not what he expected. However he began to realize that something was odd when people started running out of the sanctuary after communing. Once he realized his mistake, of course he stopped the service, poured some real wine and consecrated it. But the question that interested my friend was: what do you do with consecrated shampoo? He says that nobody would tell him what was finally done. --clh]