Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: dg@pallio.uucp (David Goodenough) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Shampoo (was Re: Receiving the host) Message-ID: Date: 17 Aug 90 07:33:20 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 28 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu OFM writes: > ..... He used it [shampoo] 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. Ummm ..... having assisted as Sub-Deacon at Mass in an Episcopal church, one question comes to mind. Since the Celebrant first administers communion to himself (i.e. he eats the priest's host, and takes a sip of wine), how come he didn't notice it then? I can buy the bit about not smelling it, but I can't believe that a cold, no matter _HOW_ bad, is going to destroy your sense of taste to the point that you can't tell wine from shampoo. > 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. You wouldn't need to do anything with it. Since it wasn't wine, it couldn't have been consecrated in the first place (remember, they ate and drank at the last supper, the washing was limited to feet), so it's a moot point. It'd be the same question as asking "what would you do with the wine consecrated by a lay person imitating the Mass?". Nothing. Since it was done by leity, no consecration happened, so it's still ordinary wine. In Christ, -- dg@pallio.UUCP - David Goodenough +---+ IHS | +-+-+ ..... !harvard!xait!pallio!dg +-+-+ | AKA: dg%pallio.uucp@xait.xerox.com +---+