{"id":9891,"date":"2006-10-14T16:11:10","date_gmt":"2006-10-14T23:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/10\/14\/its-wafer-thin.html"},"modified":"2006-10-14T16:11:10","modified_gmt":"2006-10-14T23:11:10","slug":"its_wafer_thin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/14\/its_wafer_thin.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s wafer-thin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Real Live Preacher and communion wafers\" height=\"258\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/wafer-thin.jpg\" width=\"251\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Real Live Preacher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reallivepreacher.com\/node\/819\" target=\"_blank\">taste-tests communion wafers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of a mercy, at our church we use actual bread baked by the Altar Guild.  We only break into the &#8220;poker chips&#8221; on the occasions when we run out, or for taking communion to the home-bound.<\/p>\n<p>RLP, since he&#8217;s down in West Texas, uses flour tortillas.<\/p>\n<p>I imagine the main reason that so many churches use the &#8220;poker chips&#8221; is convenience &#8212; lack of parishioner infrastructure to bake or buy bread, for example.  <\/p>\n<p>But for denominations who believe in transubstantiation or consubstantiation, it&#8217;s even more complicated.  You can&#8217;t just toss out any of the leftovers &#8212; it needs to be eventually consumed.  Unless you&#8217;ve done a great estimate of bread to bless (more problematic in larger churches), regular bread leftovers are a problem, since it doesn&#8217;t &#8220;keep&#8221; well &#8212; unlike the wafers which will, I imagine, last a lot longer (I would joke about their having eternal shelf life, but &#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, I&#8217;m glad we have real bread at our parish.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Live Preacher taste-tests communion wafers. Of a mercy, at our church we use actual bread baked by the Altar Guild. 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