{"id":3464,"date":"2007-11-21T13:56:36","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T18:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2007\/11\/21\/grape-juice-and-rice-cakes\/"},"modified":"2007-11-21T13:56:36","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T18:56:36","slug":"grape-juice-and-rice-cakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2007\/11\/grape-juice-and-rice-cakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Grape juice and rice cakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Diogenes comes this story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From Maryland comes yet another
\nwhile-you-weren’t-paying-attention story about Catholic priests who
\njust happen to be women. You don’t need to read it (by now you could
\nprobably write it yourself), but the lede raises an interesting point:<\/p>\n

    Priest Andrea Johnson of Annapolis,
\ndressed in a white robe, the red swirls on her sash rippling like
\nwater, lifts a goblet of wine to offer Holy Communion at the Stony Run
\nFriends meetinghouse in North Baltimore on Nov. 12. Behind her, Deacon
\nGloria Carpeneto of Catonsville offers grape juice and gluten-free rice
\ncakes to those on restricted diets.<\/p>\n

So we’ve got priests who aren’t priests offering food-stuffs that
\ncouldn’t be consecrated even if they were. Here’s my question: does
\nthere exist a woman priest or a supporter of women’s ordination who
\nwould discountenance the Eucharistic use of rice cakes and grape juice
\nas invalid? Does anyone in fact maintain the Church is wrong about
\nvalid matter in the one instance and right about it in the other? If
\nso, it would be interesting to hear the arguments for the Church’s
\nauthority in the case where she’s got it right. <\/p>\n

Just more evidence that those who
\ndissent on women’s ordination have more on their plate than just this
\none issue.  It is never the case that they are fully with the
\nChurch on everything except just this one item.  Though of
\ncourse their theological idea of authority isn’t exactly very strong
\nand when you ask them about final authority they just look into the mirror of their makeup compact for it.  But then again when you are
\nyour own authority obedience becomes quite easy.<\/p>\n

I wonder if they sang “I am the Rice
\nCakes of life” for the communion hymn?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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