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[sophiaserpentia]

Here's another interesting bit of religious news. The dispute over homosexuality during the Episcopal convention stole attention away from a liturgy they created to commemorate the holy communion celebrated on the moon by astronaut Buzz Aldrin:

Aldrin and fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong were watched by millions on television as they stepped from their Apollo 11 module into the Sea of Tranquillity on July 20, 1969, but the first lunar communion was kept under wraps by NASA for two decades until Aldrin wrote about it in a memoir.

It was the first time liquid -- wine, representing Christ’s blood -- was ever poured on the moon. The specially blessed bread Aldrin consumed -- representing Christ’s body -- was the first meal eaten by humans on another celestial body.

from Lunar sacrament commemorated