Arose at work again the other day.<\/p>\n
And granted, while I do have an assistant who went to Catholic school, she is far too lapsed a Catholic at this point to be able to answer the question so I’ll present it here.<\/p>\n
Through the miracle of transubstantiation the communion wafer is transformed into the body of Christ, no?<\/p>\n
So if you take communion and then, for whatever reason, you vomit how do you dispose of the resultant waste in a way that isn’t sacrilegious?<\/p>\n
Seeing that I’m a good pagan Unitarian I hate to be all Protestant, but if the answer is something less than “There’s a ceremony and prayers and the vomitus is buried in a special, sacred plot of land.” doesn’t that mean that you don’t actually believe<\/em> in the miracle of transubstantiation and that the Protestants were right all along?<\/p>\n Yeah, we do talk about weird things at work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Arose at work again the other day. And granted, while I do have an assistant who went to Catholic school, she is far too lapsed a Catholic at this point to be able to answer the question so I’ll present it here. Through the miracle of transubstantiation the communion wafer is transformed into the body […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-margarets-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3714"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3756,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions\/3756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}