russian bread

Here’s one story that Fr. George mentioned in his homily last Sunday, the celebration of the solemnity of the body and blood of Christ.

According to him, this story can answer the question as to why we don’t feel anything when we receive the Holy Eucharist even if this is the Body of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Some Americans and Russians worked together in a mission. At one point, they had no other food left but Russian bread (very hard bread according to Fr. George). One American was very hungry so he decided to try the bread. Because it was so tough, one of his teeth fell of. He got dismayed and said, “useless communist bread.” The Russian heard this and said, “That’s not useless communist bread. It’s just weak capitalist tooth.” üüüü