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After discovering the latest omen of the world’s coming demise, the Clog encourages Berkeley students to put down their books and enjoy their short-lived time on earth.
If you’ve ever received communion, then you know that the Body of Christ is not so tasty by conventional standards … in fact, it’s kind of like a wafer-shaped piece of cardboard that you choke down with the help of a little wine. And you don’t usually go back for seconds, unless you’re John Samuel Ricci, a Connecticut man who is now being detained by police for attempting to steal a handful of the Eucharist and causing a scuffle which injured the priest and a parishioner at St. Martin de Porres Catholic Church in Jensen Beach, Florida.
The commotion bean when Ricci, who was at the back of the line to receive communion, attempted to pocket a handful of the sacrament after all of the other communicants had returned to the pews. He was politely ordered to swallow the stolen goods but instead threw the wafers on the ground, which is strictly condemned by the Catechism of the Catholic Church. He then started ranting about being a member of the American Civil Liberties Union and spewing various profanities. Man, talk about bad publicity.
It took half a dozen parishioners to detain the thief until the police came, and one man suffered a heart attack in his heroic struggle to protect the consecrated wafers. Ricci has been charged with battery, theft of one dollar worth of sacred wafers and disruption of a religious assembly. His bond is set at $2,000 and he will stay in the Martin County Jail until he appears in Court on Dec. 11, 2008.
Apparently the man wasn’t just inspired by a rumbling stomach or an unnatural love for Christ, he was seen on a camera stealing something else from the altar a couple days earlier. When asked why the man was such a Eucharist hoarder, one parishioner explained, “There are so many reasons why he could have done this, especially with the issues of all of these different cults and covens that actually want to desecrate the offering to their god — the god of darkness.” Who knew the cult of darkness was collecting communion wafers?
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Effort to Steal Consecrated Hosts Thwarted by Priest [Catholic Online]
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Tags:Body of Christ, communion, Eucharist theft, god of darkness
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