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Article: 'The Church' Holy Trinity parish celebrates 150 years
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- The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
- Article date:
- August 16, 2003
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John Moore was 9 years old the day the Body of Christ hit the
ground.
Now 59, Moore was an altar boy at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in
Bloomington back then. People came to the altar for Holy Communion
and knelt along a rail and opened their mouths.
The priest dropped Communion wafers onto outstretched tongues.
The altar boy held a gold plate, called a paten, at the chin of
the communicant. The altar boy was to catch a wafer on the plate if
it dropped from a mouth.
Moore can recall a wafer falling out of someone's mouth on only
that one occasion. He clean missed it and it fell to the floor.
It was no ordinary wafer. Catholics teach that the Eucharist is
the actual physical body of Jesus. ...