{"id":11673,"date":"2011-09-26T14:35:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T18:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=11673"},"modified":"2011-09-26T14:35:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T18:35:43","slug":"distractions-and-receiving-holy-communion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2011\/09\/distractions-and-receiving-holy-communion\/","title":{"rendered":"Distractions and receiving Holy Communion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mind being a bit warped and prone to distractions can turn something so awesome and transcendent as receiving Holy Communion into a humorous reflection.<\/p>\n<p>For example at Mass this week as I approached for Communion I noticed the Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion was quite short. My thought was &#8220;Bonus&#8221; I can make a profound bow at the same time I receive Communion on the tongue. \u00a0If only we went back to only receiving on the tongue and also having very short priests, deacons and EMHC&#8217;s you could get everybody showing an external sign of reverence.<\/p>\n<p>On another occasion of receiving Holy Communion the accident of bread got caught in my teeth. \u00a0I was tempted to have to use a toothpick, but I would have felt too much like St. Longinus.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well maybe one day my thoughts will be closer to the reverence that Holy Communion deserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mind being a bit warped and prone to distractions can turn something so awesome and transcendent as receiving Holy Communion into a humorous reflection. For example at Mass this&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11675,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11673\/revisions\/11675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}