{"id":3073,"date":"2008-06-29T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2008\/06\/that-isnt-a-cookie-a-true-story.html"},"modified":"2008-06-29T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-29T17:33:00","slug":"that-isnt-a-cookie-a-true-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2008\/06\/that-isnt-a-cookie-a-true-story.html","title":{"rendered":"“That isn’t a cookie”: a true story"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the pontiff’s recent decision on communion<\/a> still freshly in our minds, a true story: <\/p>\n

One of our priests today came back into the sacristy after communion, tossed his stole on the counter and fumed, “Did you see that? Did you see<\/i> that? A little kid comes up to me for communion so I waved him away and his mother follows him, takes the host, and as they’re headed back to the pew she breaks it in two to give him half! I ran into the pew and told her to give it back. ‘That isn’t a cookie,’ I told her. These people! Unchurched! They’re all unchurched!” <\/p>\n

He was beside himself. <\/p>\n

“Well,” I cracked, “after everyone starts receiving at the railing again, on the tongue, you won’t be seeing THAT anymore…”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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