Sunday I was visiting another church. On the whole is was a time I was able to worship. I only had one problem, they served communion.
Normally communion is not a problem. I know that if I am attending a Lutheran church I don’t join the congregation. They practice what is called closed communion. You need to be a member of their denomination or local church. I would never dream of taking the host in a Catholic church. They would consider that blasphemy.
The problem was they used real wine. I thought I could deal with that. I don’t drink. The communion wine is very low alcohol. The cup was small. And I made it through just fine. The problem is the taste stayed with me for hours. I kept tasting rotten grape juice. It would not go away.
One reason I don’t drink is it all tastes like what it is, food products gone bad. It even smells that way. It has been so long since I had anything alcoholic that I had forgotten how bad it is.
I guess I can use the occasion to remind me of the sacrifice that Jesus made. Every time I get an after taste I can remember His death.
homo unius libri
Haha. They use the cheapest wine they can get, so that makes it worse. You'd probably have no problem with a sweet wine, but they don't want to make it pleasurable, so you were just out of luck. I like some wines, but I've never drank much at all and don't drink any due to meds these days. Write it off to experience! ;-)
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