Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: bcsaic!carroll@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Jeff Carroll) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Receiving the host Message-ID: Date: 5 Aug 90 23:31:05 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle Lines: 31 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu >[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 ... As a conservative Episcopalian, I am dismayed but neither shocked nor surprised that a vino cruet would wind up in someone's bathroom, but that should serve as an indication to non-Episcopalians of the turmoil that currently exists in our church. >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] In fact, most Episcopal parishes have a special basin in the sacristy which drains into the ground in a way which is ecclesiastically approved for the disposal of excess sacramental wine (I'd guess that RCs do as well). While excess wine is usually consumed by the ministers (including the lay chalice bearers), sometimes there is just so much (or it is just so early in the morning) that, at the discretion of the celebrant, it is poured into this basin. My guess is that that's what happened to the shampoo. (Or maybe the rector's wife just took it back home and used it.) Jeff Carroll carroll@atc.boeing.com