ANTS ---- WHERE??
As missionaries, we naturally have to adjust to different customs, food and situations.
Like the different types of raw food in Japan. Seeing the Japanese eat sashimi with such relish, I was able to enjoy picking off the flesh of fish still puckering, or eating shrimp jumping around after they were just beheaded and skinned alive or eating the raw squid which was seemingly trying to crawl off my plate.
Here in Smokey Mountain we never eat anything raw, including vegetable salads, because of the danger of germs and disease. However, saying mass can be a challenge in this garbage dump. I have become used to covering the chalice to keep the flies out of the wine. I have even got used to the dogs, cats, cockroaches and even large rats that sometimes run around the altar. But yesterday at communion time I had totally unexpected animal visitors. When I opened the tabernacle, I found it filled with ants. They were the small and harmless type so I brushed them off the ceborium. When I opened it up for communion, I found that it too was filled with ants. Regaining my composure, I brushed them off the hosts and asked the people if they still wanted to receive communion.
They replied, "No problem, Father."
They are more used to the animals and insects around the garbage dump than I am.
Posted:
11/10/2008 3:07:44 AM by
Sandy Wilgenbusch | with
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