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Today is Wednesday, May 5th, 2021.

All week, we have been talking about the common objects that we see at church and might not know a whole lot about.

Yesterday, we talked about the chalice, the Patton, and the suborium, all objects, special objects set aside to contain Jesus Christ when he has become bread and wine

for us. We also talked about the tabernacle on Monday. Today we're going to talk about three other objects that have to do with the Eucharist.

So the first one is something called a finger bowl. Now, if you can think through what happens, what the priest does, you might know when this is used.

But there is a point in the consecration where the priest pauses.

Usually a server will come up to him with a little bowl and pour water over his hands and

he washes his hands. Now, there's a lot we could say about this, but it is sort of a symbolic

gesture. We know he's not there scrubbing his hands. It's not to get rid of germs.

Most priests today use hand sanitizer to do that.

But he is washing away his own sinfulness.

Because if you don't know, priests are human beings as well.

Priests go to the sacrament of reconciliation and they have their own struggles and temptations

just like we do.

But so that they can really, you know, say the words of Jesus Christ, they first pray and ask

that their own sins are washed away and that God can use them more perfectly.

Now, the next object is called a cruet.

Cruet.

Now, these are oftentimes glass, a little container, a little, kind of a tiny little pitcher,

and inside of one is wine, inside of another is water.

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