Talk:Thanksgiving after Communion

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Once Saint Philip Neri noticed that a parishioner usually left the church immediately after receiving Holy Communion. To correct him, he told two acolytes to accompany the man with lighted candles as he walked home. The people in the streets stared in surprise. When the man returned to St. Philip to ask why, St. Philip replied, "We have to pay proper respect to Our Lord, Whom you are carrying away with you. Since you neglect to adore Him, I sent two acolytes to take your place." Realizing his fault, the man knelt and made proper thanksgiving after Holy Communion.
That sounds, forgive me, just like what you would make of such a story if you aimed at to retell that incident in a sort of Catholic-turned "Fairchild Family" style, consciously stripping the plot of the humoristic genius the Saint was famous for.
Here's how I've read the story (and how it's somewhat much more likely to have happened):
1. It was a woman; and a well-known and somewhat fashionable noble-woman, at that.
2. She did indeed leave the Church after Communion; and the Saint did indeed send a couple of altarboys (two or four, the accounts vary) with candles (and bells?) after her. Naturally, the people would have stared with surprise.
3. She did come back and said something to the effect of, How do you dare shame me?
4. St. Philipp looked at his thumbs (or so I imagine) and, after she had had her say, calmly answered: "Madam, I don't know what you are so enraged at. I didn't do anything but follow liturgical law: according to the rubrics, the Blessed Sacrament is to be accompanied with candles [and bells?] when it is carried through the street." --84.154.23.146 (talk) 14:15, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

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