{"id":12324,"date":"2008-11-01T08:30:45","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T08:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wordswarm.net\/dictionary\/unhouseled.html"},"modified":"2008-11-01T08:30:45","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T08:30:45","slug":"unhouseled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2008\/11\/01\/unhouseled.html","title":{"rendered":"Unhouseled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"width\"><font face=\"arial,helvetica\">Not having received the sacrament. <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I forgot, until now, about the unhouseled.<\/p>\n<p>I never knew the word until now.<\/p>\n<p>I attended Roman Catholic schools from the 3rd grade through high school.<\/p>\n<p>The student body, as well as the faculty and administration) comprised mostly Christians and Roman Catholics, but there were people of other faiths. I knew one Buddhist and a couple of Jewish kids.<\/p>\n<p>The school conducted a monthly mass, and attendance was compulsory for everybody, including non-Christians.<\/p>\n<p>When it came time to receive communion the majority of us got up and stood in line to receive the sacramental communion wafer.<\/p>\n<p>A few people remained seated. I never thought about that part of the ritual until now. How uncomfortable must that have been for the small number of non-Christians at that school to remain seated while most of us lined up for communion.<\/p>\n<p>I can see them now, like shadows in my mind, the unhouseled, remaining seated except to allow others to pass in the narrow church pews.<\/p>\n<p>I do not remember giving the matter any thought at the time. Most of us stood up, some did not. No big deal.<\/p>\n<p>Now it seems more significant to me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not having received the sacrament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-the-word","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-3cM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}