Snaxshot#51: Holy Snax
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Losing Our Religion
Memories of growing up Catholic, though no longer something I profess, always included eagerly waiting for communion time, not because I was one eager to partake in spiritual cannibalism (sorry but can we talk about this?) but because those wafers were the closest thing to a snack, particularly at times when the priest overextended the sermon, or whenever it was one of those holidays that always added on an additional hour to this Sunday ritual. In typical millennial fashion, Catholicism lost its fad for me, the more I wanted to question where these rituals came from, the more I realized these traditions stemmed less about “higher power” but had to do more with the history and rituals at the time of the birth of Christianity, that is that consuming bread and wine in communion, were more of a Roman tradition.
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See in Roman times, bread was baked twice in order to be preserved (where the italian word biscotti comes from, the latin bi(twice) cotti(cook) —in order to remoisturize the bread to make it edible, Romans would dip it in wine (consider that coffee had not yet made it to that part of the world) this is also where we get the origins of “dunkin’ donuts” in case you were not aware. Christians added on that “functional” aspect of it, as in that it represents said person, and that by partaking of this “offered cup” and meal, we are somehow in spirital union with Christ. In Judaism however, bread and wine, though still part of a spiritual celebration, is seeing more as accessories that help aid in that sentiment of commemoration, through the reciting of Kiddush and the prayer over challah, food in this ritual serves as itself, as opposed to some alchemical channel.
