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Bread and Wine

                                                                  

The other day,

I met a friend, for lunch.

We discussed theology,

Especially how Catholics and Protestants

Disagree on the meaning

Of communion's bread and wine,

How the former see them

As manifestations of transubstantiation —

Literally as the body and blood of Jesus,

God's only son —

The latter as sacred symbols

Of the real spiritual presence of the Lord.

Both of us ordered

Just a glass of Chianti

Nibbled from a basket of focaccia

And toasted each other — "L'chaim!"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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