lacsar Loc: Columbia SC and Newland NC

Snopes confirmed:

_http://www.snopes.com/glurge/communion.asp_
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COMMUNION ON THE MOON

I presume that most of us were unaware of this story.
I didn't know this, but it's awesome!
43 years ago...guess what happened... many have not heard of
this before . . .
Communion on the Moon: July 20, 1969
(This is an article by Eric Metaxas)

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.
And a few years ago I had the privilege of meeting him
myself.

I asked him about it and he confirmed the story to me, and I
wrote about in my book Everything You Always Wanted to Know
About God (But Were Afraid to Ask).

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 a
few 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 for me
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."

How many of you knew this? Too bad this type news doesn't
travel as fast as the bad does...share it if you've felt
God's love.

SpeedyWilson Loc: Upstate South Carolina

Those links did not work, but this one should:

http://www.snopes.com/glurge/communion.asp

lacsar Loc: Columbia SC and Newland NC

Thanks Mister Wilson

Radioman Loc: Ontario Canada

[quote=lacsar]Snopes confirmed:

_http://www.snopes.com/glurge/communion.asp_
(http://www.snopes.com/glurge/communion.asp)

COMMUNION ON THE MOON

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It has been removed from Snopes, however there are many references found with an internet search

-lois- Loc: Oregon

Yep, Snopes is not real Christian friendly but thank YOU for putting it on here. Did NOT know it!

Nikonian72 Loc: Chico CA

Not too shabby!

The re-posted link worked for me. When posting a link, you cannot have anything touching actual URL, like a following period, or a following underline, or a following parenthesis. URL link must stand alone.

photophile Loc: Lakewood, Ohio, USA

I didn't know this,love the fact that the Word of God was read on the moon.