Sacrament lore

[hostile]

As I recall, Ian Anderson is now a fish farmer somewhere in the UK. Odd dude. thick as a brick, as it were.

What would you expect-the band is named after some medieval guy who invented a seed drill.

It looks like we found the same image (see the SSA thread)

[hostile]

As a side note, a buddy of mine in college devised a way of sneaking into the old salt palace with a dinner fork and butter knife. We snuck in to see Jethro Tull perform - can't remember if I repented that week before taking the sacrament.

[creekster]

What would you expect-the band is named after some medieval guy who invented a seed drill.

It looks like we found the same image (see the SSA thread)

All I know if I was going to wear something like that I would at least give it a more impressive codpiece.

[hostile]

All I know if I was going to wear something like that I would at least give it a more impressive codpiece.

[woot]

I loled. That's even better than the one in Bush's flight suit.

[creekster]

or somethign like Henry VIII actualkly used:

[bag]

lol - this one came up just the other day. For a variety of factors, my sons have been responsible to bring the bread to church for about the last 5.5 years running (our oldest turned 14 about 5.5 years ago).

Saturday Costco runs are almost a religious observance at our house. And Grandma Sycamores for sacrament bread is a part of it. This saturday I somehow forgot it, and after the football game, I sent my 17 yo son to Smiths to get a loaf of bread and gas. I gave him $22 - $20 to fill up my gas tank, and $2 for a loaf of their cheapest bread - they've always got some brand on sale for $1.50.

All I got back from the little wisea$$ was - "Cheap no-name Smith's bread? Really? Jesus deserves better..."

He's right. I told the little snot to pay the extra himself...

Grandma Sycamores it was.

The ward is going to miss our bread when there's actually a teacher in our ward. The next kid who turns 14 is from kind of a crunchy family. He'll probably bring nasty, crumbly home-made whole wheat. THEN they'll know how good they had it when we brought the bread!

Nice. When I was a Teacher we would keep a jar of peanut butter and a knife in the ceiling tiles in our class room and have a nice snack with the leftover sacrament bread (not the stuff already broken).

[Clark Addison]

I always take a piece with crust to show my humility: leave the center cut pieces for others. But I often grab it with my left hand.

I draw the line at the pieces that are all squished up from the Priest grabbing it, though. I'm not THAT humble.

We used to have a family that brought bread that tasted like it had been stored in the freezer for 4 years, and then left out to thaw in a musty attic for 3 weeks. Whenever they supplied the bread, I would search extra hard for sins I committed the previous week that may have made me ineligible to partake.

[pellegrino]

I think it should be customary for the young men to take the sacrament with their left hand, up until they are married. Just my opinion.

and for some that practice should continue their whole life, married or not.

[Bastage]

What would you expect-the band is named after some medieval guy who invented a seed drill.

As a Jethro Tull sympathizer, let me share this nugget about their band name that seems to be under wraps:

Ian Anderson:

Back in February, 1968, we had many different names which usually changed every week, since we were so bad that we had to pretend to be some new band in order to get re-booked in the clubs where we aspired to find fame and fortune. Our agent, who had studied History at college, came up with the name Jethro Tull (an eighteenth century English agricultural pioneer who invented the seed drill). That was the band name during the week in which London’s famous Marquee Club offered us the Thursday night residency. So it stuck.

[Uncle Ted]

There is nothing in the CHOI about right vs left hand. That is folklore that was probably expressed as an opinion but rose to doctrinal status. It doesn't matter and has no effect on the validity of the ordinance.

As for the bread itself, you better dang well believe that I care about it. There is nothing worse than getting a piece of disgusting, freezer burned old bread. Bad sacrament bread is nasty. People that are thoughtless enough to knowingly bring old bread for the sacrament should be burned at the stake. Or, in the absence of a stake, then burned at the stake center, or at a stake dance. Either way, a stake should be involved.

Conversely, is there anything lovelier than nibbling on a tasty, soft chewy piece of fresh sacrament bread on a fast Sunday? I wish the church would require sacrament to be passed using only Grandma sycamores bread. I would much rather that be doctrine than the right hand thing.

I have been known to "accidentally" grab a clump of multiple pieces of bread on Fast Sunday.

From the CHoI, 1940 edition, pg 77...





https://archive.org/stream/GeneralHa...ge/n1/mode/2up

[thesaint258]

They should put something in there about not holding the sacrament tray right next to the member's face.

[Harry Tic]

I always take a piece with crust to show my humility: leave the center cut pieces for others. But I often grab it with my left hand.

I draw the line at the pieces that are all squished up from the Priest grabbing it, though. I'm not THAT humble.

We used to have a family that brought bread that tasted like it had been stored in the freezer for 4 years, and then left out to thaw in a musty attic for 3 weeks. Whenever they supplied the bread, I would search extra hard for sins I committed the previous week that may have made me ineligible to partake.

The best thing about my current ward is that the same family brings the bread every week: really incredible homemade stuff that our priests break into big chunks because, well, they're lazy teenagers. My kids' strategy is always to take the biggest piece they can find, sifting through the chunks as if they were prospecting for gold. They tell me that that choosing the biggest chunk is one way they demonstrate their love for the Savior. Okay, I guess.

[Paperback Writer]

The best thing about my current ward is that the same family brings the bread every week: really incredible homemade stuff that our priests break into big chunks because, well, they're lazy teenagers. My kids' strategy is always to take the biggest piece they can find, sifting through the chunks as if they were prospecting for gold. They tell me that that choosing the biggest chunk is one way they demonstrate their love for the Savior. Okay, I guess.

My ward had something similar for a while except it is was only on F&T Sunday. Incredible homemade bread baked by a Mia Maid as part of her YM of Promise program. Sadly it only lasted for about a year. I unsuccessfully lobbied for it to continue and suggested it be every week, not just F&T Sunday, and that all the YW should participate. My basis for this was a one-day Spring clean-up organized by the Teachers Quorum that involved yard work and lawn mowing of ederly and lesser active familes that had morphed into an all-summer obligation for certain families that the Bishopric wanted to reactivate. And the Bishopric had just decided to continue, in their words, the Celestial Lawn Service for another year without considering the time committment of the YM and their fathers who drove them and all the equipment and helped with the work. If only baking homemade bread could be labeled a priesthood assignment. Now that I think about it, another good reason for giving women the priesthood: homemade bread for the sacrament via priesthood assignment.

[TripletDaddy]

The best thing about my current ward is that the same family brings the bread every week: really incredible homemade stuff that our priests break into big chunks because, well, they're lazy teenagers. My kids' strategy is always to take the biggest piece they can find, sifting through the chunks as if they were prospecting for gold. They tell me that that choosing the biggest chunk is one way they demonstrate their love for the Savior. Okay, I guess.

In an attempt to make my kids laugh, I have taken multiple pieces at once. Kids laughed, wife did not laugh.

Another one that is a guaranteed method to bust up your kids.....take a tiny crumb, the smallest one you can find (still valid for the ordinance).