I
didn't know this!
I presume that most of us were unaware of this story. forty-three years ago two human beings changed history by walking on the surface of the moon. But what happened before Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong exited the Lunar Module is perhaps even more amazing, if only because so few people know about it.
"I'm talking about the fact that Buzz Aldrin took communion on the surface of the moon. Some months after his return, he wrote about it in Guideposts magazine.The background to the story is that Aldrin was an elder at his Presbyterian Church in Texas during this period in his life, and knowing that he would soon be doing something unprecedented in human history, he felt he should mark the occasion somehow, and he asked his minister to help him.
And so the minister consecrated a communion wafer and a small vial of communion wine.And Buzz Aldrin took them with him out of the Earth's orbit and on to the surface of the moon. He and Armstrong had only been on the lunar surface for afew minutes when Aldrin made the following public statement, "This is the LM pilot. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way."
He then ended radio communication and there, on the silent surface of the moon, 250,000 miles from home, he read a verse from the Gospel of John, and he took communion. Here is his own account of what happened: "In the radio blackout, I opened the little plastic packages which contained the bread and the wine. I poured the wine into the chalice our church had given me. In the one-sixth gravity of the moon, the wine slowly curled and gracefully came up the side of the cup.
Then I read the scripture, 'I am the vine, you are the branches. Whosoever abides in me will bring forth much fruit ..Apart from me you can do nothing.'"I had intended to read my communion passage back to earth,but at the last minute [they] had requested that I not do this. NASA was already embroiled in a legal battle with Madelyn Murray O'Hare, the celebrated opponent of religion, over the Apollo 8 crew reading from Genesis while orbiting the moon at Christmas.
I agreed reluctantly.""I ate the tiny Host and swallowed the wine. I gave thanks for the intelligence and spirit that had brought two young pilots to the Sea of Tranquility.
It was interesting to think the very first liquid ever poured on the moon, and the very first food eaten there, were the communion elements. And of course, it 's interesting to think that some of the first words spoken on the moon were the words of Jesus Christ , who made the Earth and the moon - and Who, in the immortal words of Dante, is Himself the 'Love that moves the Sun and other stars.'"
Did you know this? Too bad this type news doesn't travel as fast as the bad does.
I presume that most of us were unaware of this story. forty-three years ago two human beings changed history by walking on the surface of the moon. But what happened before Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong exited the Lunar Module is perhaps even more amazing, if only because so few people know about it.
"I'm talking about the fact that Buzz Aldrin took communion on the surface of the moon. Some months after his return, he wrote about it in Guideposts magazine.The background to the story is that Aldrin was an elder at his Presbyterian Church in Texas during this period in his life, and knowing that he would soon be doing something unprecedented in human history, he felt he should mark the occasion somehow, and he asked his minister to help him.
And so the minister consecrated a communion wafer and a small vial of communion wine.And Buzz Aldrin took them with him out of the Earth's orbit and on to the surface of the moon. He and Armstrong had only been on the lunar surface for afew minutes when Aldrin made the following public statement, "This is the LM pilot. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way."
He then ended radio communication and there, on the silent surface of the moon, 250,000 miles from home, he read a verse from the Gospel of John, and he took communion. Here is his own account of what happened: "In the radio blackout, I opened the little plastic packages which contained the bread and the wine. I poured the wine into the chalice our church had given me. In the one-sixth gravity of the moon, the wine slowly curled and gracefully came up the side of the cup.
Then I read the scripture, 'I am the vine, you are the branches. Whosoever abides in me will bring forth much fruit ..Apart from me you can do nothing.'"I had intended to read my communion passage back to earth,but at the last minute [they] had requested that I not do this. NASA was already embroiled in a legal battle with Madelyn Murray O'Hare, the celebrated opponent of religion, over the Apollo 8 crew reading from Genesis while orbiting the moon at Christmas.
I agreed reluctantly.""I ate the tiny Host and swallowed the wine. I gave thanks for the intelligence and spirit that had brought two young pilots to the Sea of Tranquility.
It was interesting to think the very first liquid ever poured on the moon, and the very first food eaten there, were the communion elements. And of course, it 's interesting to think that some of the first words spoken on the moon were the words of Jesus Christ , who made the Earth and the moon - and Who, in the immortal words of Dante, is Himself the 'Love that moves the Sun and other stars.'"
Did you know this? Too bad this type news doesn't travel as fast as the bad does.
6 comments:
Nothing, we've never been there.
You are right on one thing here. . . It is really too bad that news of this type doesn't travel nearly as fast as other types.
However, there is mounting, provable, scientific and logical evidence that no human has *ever* set foot on the moon.
I will give two prime examples of simple logic for this.
1. In the video clips of when they were landing on the moon, we see the first man to walk on the moon stepping down the ladder from the LEM. If he was indeed the "first" man to walk on the moon, who was operating the camera? We see it as if a camera was already sitting a short distance away, showing the man descending the ladder. Doesn't add up, does it?
2. It says the men landed on the moon, did some wandering around and etc, then climbed back into the LEM, and then somehow launched the LEM back from the surface of the moon to the orbiter that is in orbit around the moon. It took a multi-stage rocket and tons of fuel to get that rocket out of the gravity of the earth. and we are to believe that this little LEM, barely big enough for two astronauts and some gear, is able to contain and be able to control sufficient fuel to blast that thing off from the surface of the moon, which supposedly has 1/6th the gravity of earth and still have room inside it for the astronauts and gear? Doesn't add up at all to me!
If the part of the story about taking communion on the moon was true, it would be great! But, it will take a lot to convince me that a human has ever walked on the moon.
You wold need to ask the aliens that equation...
We tend to think we are the first to see / do things...
Oh we are the first to fly!! LOL NOT!
One would have to add, "First thing consumed by EARTHLINGS. We can only imagine how many other terrestrials, human or otherwise who have consumed things on the moon prior to these men. Cheers.
Have to agree with first commentor
We have NEVER been there , NO man has!!!
Stanley cubrik did some wonderful fakes though didn't he?
pride...
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