Christmas Cookies - New Translation

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Christmas Cookie Recipe
(New, Corrected Translation)

Serves: you and many.

Cream these ingredients, that by their comingling you may begin to make the dough:
1 chalice butter, 2/3 chalice sugar

In a similar way, when the butter is consubstantial with the sugar, beat in:
1 egg

Gather these dry ingredients to yourself and combine them, so that you may add them to the dough which you have already begun to make:
2 1/2 chalices sifted all-purpose flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon vanilla

Mix the precious dough with your venerable hands.

Into the refrigerator graciously place the dough so that it may be chilled, for the duration of 3 or 4 hours, before the rolling and cutting of the cookies.

When, in the fullness of time, you are ready to bake these spotless cookies, these delicious cookies, these Christmas cookies, preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Roll out the dough and, taking up a cookie cutter or stencil of your choosing, fashion the cookies into pleasing forms.

Sprinkle colorful adornments over cookies like the dewfall.

Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, or until the cookies have just begun to manifest the brownness that is vouchsafed to them by the oven’s heat.

May these cookies be found acceptable in your sight, and be borne to a place of refreshment at your table, there to be served with milk or hot chocolate, or with your spirits.

Merry Christmas!
 
Okay, but is the chalice the same size as the very worldly measuring cup I have in my kitchen? And if I wolf down about a quarter of the raw cookie dough (which I usually do,) would that be considered a cookie desecration or abuse?

That was a hoot, Father! Thanks for a great morning chuckle!
 
Thank you Father!! 😃

I am a chef, and a lover of liturgy, who is having a little trouble
with some of the news changes- some of them make the “English teacher” (what I studied in college so many moons ago!) cringe!

Thanks for the laugh!! :bounce:
 
We need a “like” button!! 👍 😃
odile53 said:
Okay, but is the chalice the same size as the very worldly measuring cup I have in my kitchen? And if I wolf down about a quarter of the raw cookie dough (which I usually do,) would that be considered a cookie desecration or abuse?

That was a hoot, Father! Thanks for a great morning chuckle!
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NewEnglandPries said:
. . . 2 1/2 chalices sifted all-purpose flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon vanilla . . .
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Erratum: 2 1/2 chalices sifted many-purpose flour. Although it is intended for all purposes, some people (like celiac sufferers) will deliberately reject it, and so it will only actually be used for many purposes.
 
Is “vouchsafed” in the new translation? How is it pronounced?
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I especially didn’t like the reference to “chalice” as a measuring device for cookies.

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MarkThompson said:
Erratum: 2 1/2 chalices sifted many-purpose flour. Although it is intended for all purposes, some people (like celiac sufferers) will deliberately reject it, and so it will only actually be used for many purposes.
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:clapping:
 
Chalice is an acceptable translation for the cup. The following is the Clementine Latin Vuglate followed by the Douay Rheims:

Matthew 26:27 Et accipiens calicem gratias egit: et dedit illis, dicens: Bibite ex hoc omnes.
And taking the chalice, he gave thanks, and gave to them, saying: Drink ye all of this.

Mark 14:23 Et accepto calice, gratias agens dedit eis: et biberunt ex illo omnes.
And having taken the chalice, giving thanks, he gave it to them. And they all drank of it.

Luke 22:17 Et accepto calice gratias egit, et dixit: Accipite, et dividite inter vos.
And having taken the chalice, he gave thanks, and said: Take, and divide it among you:

The Baronius Press Roman Missal (1662): Hic est enim Calix Sánguinis mei, novi et ætérni testaménti: Mystérium fídei: qui pro vobis et pro multis effundétur in remissiónem peccatórum.
For this is the Chalice of My Blood of the new and eternal Testament, the Mystery of Faith; which shall be shed for you and for many unto the remission of sins.

[Emphasis mine.]

😛
 
opus101 said:
Is “vouchsafed” in the new translation? How is it pronounced?
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  1. No, it isn’t.
  2. The first part rhymes with “pouch” or “slouch,” the second part has a long A and rhymes with “chafed.” Stress is roughly equal, or can fall on either syllable depending on your dialect.
 
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I especially didn’t like the reference to “chalice” as a measuring device for cookies.
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Its merely replacing the word cup with chalice, just as the new Roman Missal does. It’s not meant to be a literal chalice as a measuring cup.

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NewEnglandPries said:
When I tripped during the Stations of the Cross one Lent, someone jokingly said loudly, “The priest falls the first time!” I don’t think they were diminishing The Passion.
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Hmmm. I think I would have said, “Did you have a nice trip, Father?” 🙂
 
NewEnglandPries said:
Why is it sacrilege? People use church terms in a humorous way all the time. When people make a mistake that ends up benefiting them they sometimes jokingly say “O Happy Fault!” Does that diminish the theological significance of the Exultet?
I don’t think so.

When I tripped during the Stations of the Cross one Lent, someone jokingly said loudly, “The priest falls the first time!” I don’t think they were diminishing The Passion.

Its merely replacing the word cup with chalice, just as the new Roman Missal does. It’s not meant to be a literal chalice as a measuring cup.

Not everyone finds the same things funny. Here in New England this “recipe” is being passed around via email. I found it funny, as did the priests who forwarded it to me, and I thought I’d share it here. No more, no less.
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Sorry if I misinterpreted you. (Sincerely)

I said “akin” to sacrilege, not actual sacrilege.

The examples you gave do not seem equivalent to the use of “chalice” in the joke. Sorry. Just my opinion.
 
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