Jesus' Candy

Last Tuesday I was disappointed that I only had a couple students show up to my (Tauna) late night English conversation class.  To be fair, it was the day after Golden Week ended (a week were several Japanese National Holidays are in a row). Most of my students were out of town or spending extra hours at work to make up for lost time.  Whenever I have only a few students, class is usually boring because there is not much conversation, but on this particular Tuesday, I had my best class yet.

One of my students had seen a movie in which one of the characters was Catholic.  He asked me why in the movie did the priest put candy on the tongue of the child.  The other student that was present is Catholic, so in Japanese he explained that it wasn't candy, it was bread.  We then had a brief discussion about sacraments and what communion is all about.

Then the student asked why in the movie did the mother want to know if her daughter was marrying a Catholic or a Protestant.  I really go excited at this question.  I told him all about Martin Luther and the Reformation and the small differences between Catholics and Lutherans.  I was thrilled to give a Christian History Lesson.

I love pop cultural references to Christianity because they create questions.  I can pretty much credit Dogma, The Simpsons, and Family Guy for my desire to go to Seminary.

But I can't stop thinking about how he called communion candy.

Candy!

What a great word for communion. Jesus' love and forgiveness for us is indeed sweet.

Communion is indeed sweet!
(Picture from http://catholiccuisine.blogspot.jp/2011/04/bread-of-life-first-communion-candy.html)