by MsGrowingGirl20 14 Replies latest jw friends
Quite a few years ago the "anointed" partaker in our hall choked on the bread, the elderberries were scrambling around but by the time they got poor brother elderly some water he'd drank a bunch of the wine.
BTW: He was one in the 1914 generation that wouldn't pass away, he's been dead for about 15 years now.
The memorial I remember the most was with Brother D partook. Gasp! Shock! Horror! He was DF'd for apostatasy a short time later. "As he will should, how dare he"
After reading Crisis of Conscience, I understood exactly what happened. (It was the early 80s) He was part of the conscience class. I swear that book filled in so many gaps in my life story. But that was the one I remember very well.
My experiences with the JW version of Mass, (that is the once per year communion and accompanying ceremony), goes from being a child whom the emblems were passed over to the next adult on their trip around the Kingdom Hall to being an elder selected to say the prayer over the bread and wine into the microphone and then having it ceremonially offered to me on stage and then ceremonially offering it back to the presiding elder/speaker. Then passing a couple of plates and glasses to the servers who started the circuit around the hall. I remember watching sister so-and-so take a small piece of the bread and a teeny sip of wine and thinking, Wow! cool! But I also remember seeing some doofuss we'd never seen before taking a bite and a slurp. We would look at each other, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, and decide he was not of the annointed on the spot. This saved JayEdgarHoover from having to decide.
I also remember after the meeting that certain elders would take the left overs home to have with their spaghetti supper.
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