Reply #9: I'm extremely lapsed, but when I go to a funeral Mass, I still take the wafer. [View All]

[gauguin57]

Because, goddammit, I had to put up with the cruelty of Sister James as she trained us for our first communion and first confession. That woman was a menace. I lived through it; therefore, I am entitled to take communion in the Catholic Church for the rest of my born days, even though I ONLY go to that church for funerals and the occasional wedding.

Besides ... when the priest explains to the congregation that only trained, practicing Catholics are allowed to take communion, I love going up there and being the REBEL CATHOLIC GIRL FROM HELL I always wanted to be.

Sister James told us if we chewed the host, we'd have Jesus in our stomachs. I kid you not.

So Rudy Kazootie, go on wit' yer bad self, and TAKE that Communion. It's your RIGHT, dammit!