Friday, April 13, 2012

Sacrament and Defilement

PhotobucketOne Sunday during church in Italy, a newer American missionary was blessing the bread for the sacrament. In Italian, the sacramental blessing on the bread should be said:

"Ti chiediamo . . . di benedire e santificare questo pane . . ."
(We ask thee . . . to bless and sanctify this bread . . .)  

However, as new missionaries tend to do, he struggled with the pronunciation of "pane," thus saying:

"Ti chiediamo . . . di benedire e santificare questo pene . . ." 
(We ask thee . . . to bless and sanctify this penis . . .)

Needless to say, he was asked to start over.

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