Communion on the Moon. CLAIM. Account by Apollo 1. Game of Thrones Winds of Winter could be out in 2018, says George RR Martin. Buzz Aldrin describes his taking Communion on the moon. See Example s EXAMPLESCollected via e mail, February 2. Communion on the Moon. L3pzeUbi-o/hqdefault.jpg' alt='The Blood Of Kings' title='The Blood Of Kings' />July 2. Forty years ago today two human beings changed history by walking on the surface of the moon. Omnisphere Mac Osx Keygen. But what happened before Buzz Aldrin pictured in the LM, left and Neil Armstrong exited the Lunar Module is perhaps even more amazing, if only because so few people know about it. Im 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 pastor to help him. And so the pastor consecrated a communion wafer and a small vial of communion wine. And Buzz Aldrin took them with him out of the Earths 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. Id 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, 2. 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 OHare sic, 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. Painting by Edmund Leighton 18531922. The New Covenant Is A Blood Covenant. And The True Church Is The Bride Of Christ. The Bride Actively Participates In The. Unsubscribe from Metal Blade Records Powerwolf video We Drink Your Blood from the album Blood of the Saints. Buy Here httpwww. The discussion focuses on the liver profile blood test covering information such as why it is ordered and the type of health conditions it can diagnose. Also included. 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, its 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. TRUERATINGORIGINOne of the smaller details lost amidst the tremendous historic and scientific achievements of the Apollo 1. July 1. 96. 9 was that it also marked the first occasion on which a Christian took the sacrament of Communion on an astronomical body other than Earth. This event took place in the interval between the lunar modules landing on the moon on 2. July 1. 96. 9 and Neil Armstrongs taking his first steps on the lunar surface several hours later during that period, astronaut Buzz Aldrin privately observed Communion using elements he had brought with him to the moon. Aldrin openly described his Communion experience on the moon in print several times, including an August 1. LIFE magazine, an October 1. Guideposts article, and his 1. Battle Realms Winter Wolf Full Version Pc more. Return to Earth. The following account of his motivations and preparation is taken from Aldrins 2. Magnificent Desolation. Vincenzo Luvineri born October 5, 1977, better known as Vinnie Paz formerly known as Ikon the Verbal Hologram, is an Italian American rapper and the lyricist. Books. All of my books can be found online in paperback and ebook formats. You can ask for them at your local bookstore. If they are not in stock, the bookstore. I/51WEGZew1FL.jpg' alt='The Blood Of Kings' title='The Blood Of Kings' />Landing on the moon is not quite the same thing as arriving at Grandmothers for Thanksgiving. You dont hop out of the lunar module the moment the engine stops and yell, Were here Were here Getting out of the LM takes a lot of preparation, so we had built in several extra hours to our flight plan. We also figured it was wise to allow more time rather than less for our initial activities after landing, just in case anything had gone wrong during the flight. According to our schedule, we were supposed to eat a meal, rest awhile, and then sleep for seven hours after arriving on the moon. After all, we had already worked a long, full day and we wanted to be fresh for our extra vehicular activity EVA. Mission Control had notified the media that they could take a break and catch their breath since there wouldnt be much happening for several hours as we rested. But it was hard to rest with all that adrenaline pumping through our systems. Nevertheless, in an effort to remain calm and collected, I decided that this would be an excellent time for a ceremony I had planned as an expression of gratitude and hope. Weeks before, as the Apollo mission drew near, I had originally asked Dean Woodruff, pastor at Webster Presbyterian Church, where my family and I attended services when I was home in Houston, to help me come up with something I could do on the moon, some appropriate symbolic act regarding the universality of seeking. I had thought in terms of doing something overtly patriotic, but everything we came up with sounded trite and jingoistic. I settled on a well known expression of spirituality celebrating the first Christian Communion on the moon, much as Christopher Columbus and other explorers had done when they first landed in their new world. I wanted to do something positive for the world, so the spiritual aspect appealed greatly to me, but NASA was still smarting from a lawsuit filed by atheist Madalyn Murray OHair after the Apollo 8 astronauts read from the biblical creation account in Genesis. OHair contended this was a violation of the constitutional separation of church and state. Although OHairs views did not represent mainstream America at that time, her lawsuit was a nuisance and a distraction that NASA preferred to live without. I met with Deke Slayton, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts who ran our flight crew operations, to inform him of my plans and that I intended to tell the world what I was doing. Deke said, No, thats not a good idea, Buzz. Go ahead and have communion, but keep your comments more general. I understood that Deke didnt want any more trouble. So, during those first hours on the moon, before the planned eating and rest periods, I reached into my personal preference kit and pulled out the communion elements along with a three by five card on which I had written the words of Jesus I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me, and I in him, will bear much fruit for you can do nothing without me. I poured a thimbleful of wine from a sealed plastic container into a small chalice, and waited for the wine to settle down as it swirled in the one sixth Earth gravity of the moon.