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  Wafer (cooking) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In cooking, a wafer can refer to a crisp, sweet, very thin flat dry cake which is often used to decorate ice creams.
Wafers can also be made into cookies with cream flavoring sandwiched between them.
The word also refers to the special wafers made for Anglican Holy Communion services; the word host is used in the Roman Catholic liturgy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wafer_(cooking)   (127 words)

  
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These wafers were sometimes very large, as from them small pieces were broken for the Communion of the laity, hence the word "particle" for the small host; but smaller ones were used when only the celebrant communicated.
If the host is not made of wheaten flour, or is mixed with flour of another kind in such quantity that it cannot be called wheat bread, it may not be used (ibid.).
Durandus says that the word host is of pagan origin, derived from the word hostio, to strike, referring to the victim offered to the gods after a victory, but it is also of biblical origin, as it represented the matter, or victim, of the sacrifice, e.g.
www.ewtn.com /library/LITURGY/01349D.TXT   (912 words)

  
 LM
The term is from the Latin hostia, "victim." Use of the term reflects an understanding of the eucharist in sacrificial terms relative to Christ's death on the cross.
The individual wafers of the eucharist may be referred to as "hosts." Many parishes use a large host that is broken by the celebrant at the fraction.
The smaller "hosts" that will be distributed to the people are placed in a ciborium and placed on the paten with the "Priest's Host" when the altar is prepared before the Great Thanksgiving at the eucharist.
www.er-d.org /19625_14530_ENG_Print.html   (174 words)

  
 Vatican announces new communion wafer designs
The new wafers are already in production, and will be distributed in time for the year 2000 celebratory Masses to be held in almost every nation.
The shape, composition, size and flavour of the wafers cause no problems for the miracle of transubstantiation, as long as the original un-transformed wafer is a tasty, bite-size morsel to begin with.
The new wafers are expected to tempt lapsed Catholics back to church, to sample the new and interesting ways of communing with their deity, and the wafers will be advertised on billboards near churches offering them, to raise awareness and hopefully bring in the casually religious among the general public.
www.abarnett.demon.co.uk /atheism/host.html   (602 words)

  
 The J-Walk Blog: Mmmmm. Hosts (Comments)
There ought to be reverence given to the shape and form of the Host that is used in the Mass, perhaps the Church should copyright the design or something to deal with this secularisation of the sacred.
You see, when they make the hosts, there are bits and pieces left from the rolling and the cutting of the dough.
Host leavings (and yes they call them hosts) are easy and cheap to get when you don't have a supply of baguette ends at home.
j-walkblog.com /index.php?/weblog/comments/mmmmm_hosts   (1131 words)

  
 The Encyclopedia of Buffy Studies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Bram Stoker’s vampire hunters include the Host among their weapons against the undead, but it rarely appears in other vampire stories and films and did not become part of Buffy’s fighting arsenal.
The host appears appears briefly in the “The Harvest”—where Buffy lifts off the top part of her trunk to reveal stakes, crosses, holy water, garlic and a bottle full of host wafers.
One possible explanation for its continuing absence is that the host has a similar effect (at least visually) as the cross and is, at the same time, a much more obscure symbol—requiring more extensive knowledge of Christian theology and denominational practice than the other devices.
www.slayage.tv /EBS/btvs/buffyverse/host.htm   (121 words)

  
 Desecration of the Host definition - Zionism and Israel -Encyclopedia / Dictionary/Lexicon of Zionism/Israel/
According to the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation, which became dogma at that time, a consecrated host wafer becomes the flesh of Jesus Christ.
It was thus believed that Jews would steal and desecrate these wafers to reenact the crucifixion of Christ.
In numerous cases Jews were executed in horrible ways for this imaginary "crime." In the 19th century it was shown that the red color often found on the wafers was due to a fungus.
www.zionism-israel.com /dic/Desecration_of_the_host.htm   (478 words)

  
 Transubstantiation (the Eucharist)
Hosts that are left over after Mass are kept in a tabernacle, (a large, ornate container that can be locked).
This enables Catholics to know that consecrated hosts are inside, so they can kneel and pray in front of the tabernacle as a form of eucharistic devotion.
Perhaps this is why communion wafers melt on your tongue, instead of being real bread, which has to be chewed.
www.catholicconcerns.com /Trans.html   (1378 words)

  
 Kernel Logic Machine; WSI; Array Processors; Air Traffic Control
A four-inch wafer full of 16Kbit drams used the spiral algorithm to interconnect the good memory, bypassing the bad, to a total of 0.5Mbyte on the wafer.
Wafers have been used as a substitute for the printed circuit board, with flipchips bonded onto them.
In the case of chips on the border of a wafer however, local east-west inter-chip data lines will be bonding wires connecting the data lines from the right-hand edge of edge chips to the left-hand edge of chips in the next wafer to the right.
www.ivorcatt.com /3ewk.htm   (5794 words)

  
 The Curt Jester: Hosties
The Polish have a Christmas custom called "oblatek" which is sharing wafers that are the same material, taste and texture as communion wafers (although the ones I've always seen were not round but rectangular, and colored with food color in pale shades and had Christmas images imprinted on them).
Wafers of all sorts were quite common in medieval, Renaissance, and late 18th-early 19th century cuisine, both alone and as a foundation for other recipes.
Wafers, comfits and hippocras were consumed by the sovereign in this semi-religious ritual linked with the final grace and the washing of hands.
www.splendoroftruth.com /curtjester/archives/006371.php   (3782 words)

  
 Appendix C
A consecrated Host (a large communion wafer) is placed in a monstrance (a special container for displaying the Host).
During Mass, the ciborium (which contains the Host and smaller communion wafers) and the chalice (which contains the wine) are placed on top of the altar stone.
During an election for a new Pope, the cardinals are kept enclosed in the Sistine Chapel until the new Pope is chosen.
www.unmaskingcatholicism.com /Appendix-C.shtml   (9379 words)

  
 Vertical furnace, furnaces
Cassettes are placed by the operator on the shelf in the loading area from where the wafers are transferred automatically to the quartz boat.
In this case the wafers are transferred by a robot directly from the opened cassette box to the quartz boat.
The wafers are transported in a vacuum-less environment by a highly reliable twin-arm, Z-theta movement robot.
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 WESTERN DIRECT MARKETING GROUP, INC. - CMP
Studies were done at several prestigious research institutes on the effects of adding dietary calcium and magnesium, the ingredients found in Cholestaway, to the diet.
Host Two: "And that is the beauty of Cholestaway.
Host 1:"Now, I would like to introduce you to the man who discovered Cholestaway, Dr. DeLamar Gibbons, former Director of Clinical Research for the Saturday Evening Post, and author of several books on cholesterol and diets."....
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Although a priest did consecrate a rice wafer for her one time, the church later said that it was invalid and did not represent the body of Christ.
A rice-based host is unacceptable, the church contends.
Apparently the low-gluten wafer is still unacceptable for her condition, as she needs a totally gluten-free diet.
www.atsnn.com /story/141999.html   (3105 words)

  
 Vindy.com - Sharing Christmas wafers remains cherished custom
The youngest child takes the role of a messenger of sorts, and alerts the family when the first star of the night sky is visible.
First, he would share a piece of the wafer with his wife, who in turn would share it with another family member.
The Christmas wafers, which now come packaged in cellophane, are easily tucked into holiday greeting cards and sent to family and friends who won't be able to attend the yule gathering.
www.vindy.com /content/religion/298523725371245.php   (1382 words)

  
 ZHONG et al. Stabilizing electrode-host interfaces   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
In vitro experiments were conducted to investigate the response of cortical neurons in culture shown schematically in Figure 1 with silicon discs coated with collagen I (Figure 2) and silicon discs coated with polylysine, either with or without laminin.
Small silicon wafers are placed into the wells of a 24-well polystyrene tissue culture plate.
As was seen after two days of culture, the interconnections between cells on the polylysine-laminin-coated silicon wafers were still present, with more interconnections present after three days than at two.
www.vard.org /jour/01/38/6/zhong386.htm   (2921 words)

  
 Gluten-Free Communion and the Staff of Life
Depending on your religious preference, there are difference policies regarding the host and the adverse impact that a wheat containing host would have on a celiac's health.
Low-gluten hosts are valid matter, provided that they contain the amount of gluten sufficient to obtain the confection of bread, that there is no addition of foreign materials, and that the procdure for making such hosts is not such as to alter the nature of the substance of the bread."
It was suggested, however, that the gf wafers be kept seprate from the remainder in a pyx to be held by the Rector.
www.enabling.org /ia/celiac/communion.html   (5466 words)

  
 BOGDANA CORPORATION - CMP
They're in the form of very tasty wafers and when you take these wafers during your meal, very little fat gets into the body.
Anderson: "So basically as a result of taking the wafers, it’s conceivable that not only weight loss will occur, but also cholesterol levels within the body will go down which is extremely important when one considers heart problems and hardening of the arteries and all of those negative health problems that so many people have.
Anderson: "...[Y]ou take two of these tasty wafers which are a combination of nutrients and what they do is they prevent fat from getting into the body, so...
www.ftc.gov /os/1998/05/bogdana.cmp.htm   (3729 words)

  
 Venerable Histoire du Tres-Saint Sacrement de Miracle... 1720
The recovered hosts were divided between Saint Gudule and Notre-Dame de La Chapelle, the latter hosts disappearing in 1579.
This is followed by a description of the theft, recovery and veneration of the hosts, illustrated by full-page plates by J. Harrewyn after seventeen paintings by J. van Helmont.
One of the baroquely-surrealistic plates shows the thieves frantically stabbing the bleeding host wafers with daggers, and another shows three of the culprits being burned at the stake.
www.joslinhall.com /g-30175.htm   (674 words)

  
 Persecution of Jews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On many occasions, Jews were accused of a blood libel, the supposed drinking of the blood of Christian children in mockery of the Christian Eucharist.
Jews were also falsely accused of torturing consecrated host wafers in a reenactment of the Crucifixion; this was known as host desecration.
In the Papal States, which existed until 1870, Jews were required to live only in specified neighborhoods called ghettos.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Persecution_of_Jews   (1493 words)

  
 Philosophy Forum -> Catholic Church Denies Communion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Roman Catholic doctrine holds that communion wafers must have at least some unleavened wheat, as did the bread served at the Last Supper of Jesus Christ before his crucifixion.
Those people may recieve a blessing if they present themselves and so request it [normally by crossing their forearms across their chest - in the US anyway], but the blessing is not in any way considered the equivalent of the graces of Communion.
And thus a gluten-free wafer, in spite of its external resemblance, is no longer bread and thus is incapable of becoming the Body of Christ.
forum.darwinawards.com /index.php?showtopic=5764   (4832 words)

  
 Episcopalian's Dictionary: T-Z   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Once a wafer has been consecrated it is referred to as the Host.
Wafers are produced commercially by one of several ecclesiastical supply companies.
It is called the "People's bread." During a celebration of the Eucharist, the celebrant will use one priest's bread and as many people's bread as is needed to comunicate everyone in the congregation.
www.dioms.org /newcomers/Dictionary/TUVWXYZ.html   (2141 words)

  
 Vatican approves mint-flavored host -- Beliefnet.com
VATICAN CITY, April 1 -- In the next two months, the Catholic Church plans to unveil a new, better-tasting wafer to be used for Communion.
One Vatican official, who requested anonymity, claims to have assisted in developing the new host.
Vatican officials had conducted trial runs of many other flavored hosts before choosing mint, including raspberry, banana and strawberry cheesecake.
www.beliefnet.com /story/143/story_14318_1.html   (221 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Altar Breads
The earliest documentary evidence that the altar-breads were made in thin wafers is the answer which Cardinal Humbert, legate of St.
Leo IX, made at the middle of the eleventh century to Michael Cerularius, Patriarch of Constantinople.
If the host begins to be corrupt, it would be a grievous offence to use it, but it is considered valid matter (ibid., 3.) For licit consecration:
www.newadvent.org /cathen/01349d.htm   (907 words)

  
 Asia Times Online :: Asian News, Business and Economy.
For the same reason that Christians used to riot over alleged desecration of the Host, the wafer that when consecrated becomes the body of Jesus Christ, according to Catholic belief.
Medieval Jews, to be sure, were less likely to have tortured a consecrated Host than Marine guards were to have flushed a Koran down the toilet, and historians agree that the charge was a fabrication.
Few Catholics, for that matter, still believe that the wafer really turns into the flesh of Jesus Christ (according to a 1992 Gallup Poll, only 30% of American Catholics polled clearly expressed this belief), and therefore are unlikely to riot even if someone really were to desecrate a Host.
www.atimes.com /atimes/Front_Page/GF07Aa01.html   (1369 words)

  
 MueTec 3000NT
MueTec 3000 is qualified to measure wafers with very low contrast appearing in manufacturing processes like STI (shallow trench isolation) and CMP (chemical mechanical polishing) using specially developed filters.
MueTec 3000 recognizes new cassettes on the system, wafers are selected randomly, job dependent, or by factory host, and automatically loaded to the Barcode Reader.
During the measurement of one wafer the next wafer is prepared by the robot in parallel.
www.muetec.com /products/wafer/muetec-3000.php   (226 words)

  
 Catholic Answers Forums - Extra Communion Wafers?
The effect is permanent (until the hosts are consumed).
Then notice also what happens when everyone is sitting down or kneeling after communion....the priest and the eucharistic ministers consume any remaining blood of Christ, then transfer any remaining hosts into one main chalice and they place that chalice into the tabernacle and close the doors.
The "transubstanted wafers" or "consecrated hosts" are treated with great respect.
forums.catholic.com /showthread.php?t=107481&goto=newpost   (3765 words)

  
 DigsMagazine.com | host: GET SWANKY host a cocktail party partII, page2
Trim the wafers down to size using kitchen shears (you’ll want to do this over a wastebasket.) Place the wafers, flat side down, on the bottom of the paper-lined mini muffin tins.
Beat the cream cheese, sugar and vanilla, plus either the nutmeg or lemon juice/zest, on medium speed until well blended.
Pour the batter over the wafers, filling each cup to the brim.
www.digsmagazine.com /host/host_cocktailpartyII2.htm   (480 words)

  
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Just two flavorful wafers with every meal can lower your cholesterol count almost immediately.
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