Reverend Ref +

HOW DO YOU KNOW?

Because I will be otherwise occupied next Sunday, I am having my deacon preside at service. One of the requirements of this is that I consecrate enough elements so that she can administer reserved Eucharist. This is important. I forgot one time.

So today I consecrated copious amounts of bread and wine so there would be enough next Sunday.

On another note, nobody signed up for coffee hour at CC today, so we didn't have one. On the one hand, that's disappointing as everybody left immediately after service. On the other hand, it allowed me the rare opportunity to have a little down time between services.

It also allowed the person who serves as my altar guild to immediately clean up after service. Which she did.

Before I was even de-vested ... unvested ... whatever ... she had poured the leftover wine in the cruet back into the wine bottle and was carrying stuff over to the parish hall to wash.



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How do you know what portion of the wine has been consecrated and what portion hasn't? Does the consecrated wine all float to the top because it's been infused with the Holy Spirit and is therefore lighter than the rest? Or does the consecrated wine add little glow in the dark sparklies to the unconsecrated wine? Or does volume win? Since there is more unconsecrated wine than consecrated, does that have a negating effect? This topic was never covered in any of my seminary classes.

So I went to the nursing home, did a service there, and made sure to save the extra consecrated wine for next week.