This morning I went up to Communion. Our pastor said “The Body of Christ” and I said “Amen”. I closed my eyes, stuck my tongue out and waited…and waited. Now I know this priest and could not imagine he was offended by my taking Communion in the mouth vs. my hand, but still, I got scared. I opened up one eye to check and make sure. He was finishing up a rather long blessing of my belly. Since I am such a ninny these days, it was all I could do not to cry when I knelt in my pew after Communion. For whatever reason, I am still getting teary eyed writing this.
\nOur pastor, Fr. Gulley is retiring and I am sad to see him go. I hope he is replaced by someone with his orthodoxy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This morning I went up to Communion. Our pastor said “The Body of Christ” and I said “Amen”. I closed my eyes, stuck my tongue out and waited…and waited. Now I know this priest and could not imagine he was offended by my taking Communion in the mouth vs. my hand, but still, I got… Continue reading I Love Good Priests<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-christian-life","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}