Sarah will be carrying the altar cloth with one of her classmates for the Offertory procession on Saturday, her first communion mass. All the kids will carry something -- the gifts, offerings, candles, or flowers -- but Sarah will be carrying the altar cloth. This is what I think (speaking in my refined and expert capacity of an ex-altar boy) what we used to call the coproral -- not the main altar covering but eh smaller cloth spread out on the altar before the consecration. I assume corporal in this case has nothing to do with the military rank but with the fact that the corpus or body of Christ will rest on it.
She's tasted sherry and is still trying to decide whether to accept communion under both species or only the bread. The communion wine used at St. Anthony's is, like most in the US, a sweet, heavy, fortified wine in the sherry/madeira/marsala family. I know that some sweet Greek and Israeli wines are also popular, so we gave Sarah a (very limited) taste of cream sherry. She's still unsure whether to take it under both forms or just the bread. They gave them unconsecrated hosts at the rehearsal last Saturday, so she's prepared for the taste of that.
Okay, up too late again, enough for now.
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