MDDM23: The Sacrament of the Eating

[Dave Monroe]

   "His pleasure at being able to utter a recently
minted word, is at once much curtialed by the volatile
Chef de Cusine Armand Allegre, who rushes from the
Kitchen screaming.  'Sond-weech-uh!  Sond-weech-uh!,'
gesticulating as well, 'To the Sacrament of the
Eating, it is ever the grand Insult!'" (M&D, Ch. 36,
p. 366)

"'... the birth of the "Sandwich," at this exact
moment in Christianity,-- one of the Noble and Fallen
for its Angel!  Disks of secular Bread,-- enclosing
whilst concealing slices of real Flesh, yet a-sop with
Blood, under the earthly guise of British Beef, all,--
but for the Species of course,-- Consubstantiate,
thus...the Sandwich, Eucharist of this our Age.'"
(M&D, Ch. 36, p. 367)

Arm and A (l)leg(re) ...

Main Entry: allegro
Function: adverb or adjective
Etymology: Italian, merry, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin
alecrus lively, alteration of Latin alacr-, alacer
Date: circa 1721
: at a brisk lively tempo -- used as a direction in
music

And then ...

Main Entry: con·sub·stan·ti·a·tion 
Pronunciation: "kän(t)-s&b-"stan(t)-shE-'A-sh&n
Function: noun
Date: 1597
: the actual substantial presence and combination of
the body and blood of Christ with the eucharistic
bread and wine according to a teaching associated with
Martin Luther -- compare TRANSUBSTANTIATION

Main Entry: tran·sub·stan·ti·a·tion 
Pronunciation: -"stan(t)-shE-'A-sh&n
Function: noun
Date: 14th century
1 : an act or instance of transubstantiating or being
transubstantiated
2 : the miraculous change by which according to Roman
Catholic and Eastern Orthodox dogma the eucharistic
elements at their consecration become the body and
blood of Christ while keeping only the appearances of
bread and wine

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

Lord's Supper

"Protestant rite commemorating the Last Supper. In the
Reformation the leaders generally rejected the
traditional belief in the sacrament as a sacrifice and
as an invisible miracle of the actual changing of the
bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ
(transubstantiation) but retained the belief in it as
mystically uniting the believers with Christ and with
one another. The Lutherans held that there is a change
by which the body and blood of Christ join with the
bread and wine; this principle (consubstantiation) was
rejected by Huldreich Zwingli who, in a controversy
over the sacrament, held that the bread and wine were
only symbolic. Calvinists, on the other hand,
maintained the spiritual, but not the real presence of
Christ in the sacrament. The Church of England
affirmed the real presence but denied
transubstantiation. However, since the Oxford
Movement, Anglicans tend to accept either
transubstantiation or the Calvinist interpretation.
Lutheran and Anglican communion services follow the
Roman Catholic Mass in outline, although the service
books have eliminated references to a sacrifice and
have shortened the service. Anglicans hold to Western
tradition in using unleavened bread. Most Protestant
churches use raised bread; many use unfermented grape
juice instead of wine. Communion in which the laity
receive only the bread is rejected by Protestants;
this was a crucial point with the Hussites. Lutherans
and Anglicans (especially since the Oxford Movement)
celebrate communion much more frequently than most
other Protestant churches. The Quakers are one of the
few Protestant groups to reject the sacrament
entirely."

http://www.bartleby.com/65/lo/LordsSup.html

And see as well ...

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05572c.htm

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04322a.htm

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05573a.htm#3

"The opinions expressed therein" ...

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