Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucla-cs!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: jhpb@granjon.garage.att.com Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Shampoo (was Re: Receiving the host) Message-ID: Date: 20 Sep 90 07:45:59 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: AT&T Bell Labs (Liberty Corner) Lines: 16 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu The moderator commented: The rule that consecrated bread and wine must be reverently consumed, and can't just be flushed down the drain, is in some ways similar to the rule that wornout flags must be reverently buried or cremated: respect is being shown symbolically to Christ. At my Presbyterian church, for a number of years leftover bread was fed to the birds. No doubt Francis of Assisi would have approved. --clh] :-) No doubt he would not have. He was a Catholic cleric in major orders (a deacon, if I recall) at a time when transubstantiation was already Catholic doctrine. [The suggestion was not meant entirely seriously. --clh]