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From: ajleeb <>
Subject: Re: [DVHH-L] VIDEO CASSETTE -REMEMBER WHERE --------
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 17:21:25 -0600
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Also - you could never leave the table, unless you ate everything off your
plate.
If our ancestors would see how much food we waste, they would have a heart
attack.

Alex.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniela" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: [DVHH-L] VIDEO CASSETTE -REMEMBER WHERE --------


> The conversation regarding the blessing of the bread reminded me of a
> story my mom told me in regard to myself and my Opa who was of the
> Reformed religion. It seems that my Opa
> did the very same thing with a loaf of bread anytime he was ready to cut.
> Well, my grandparents came for a two year visit to the US when I was about
> 4
> years old and lived with us. I was a good kid most of the time, but once
> I
> took a bite of some bread my Opa had cut, took a bite and spit it out (why
> I
> can't imagine!!) and said 'ugh!' Well.....my poor grandfather chased me
> around the table to scold me for that trick!
> I don't remember it, so he couldn't have been too harsh, but my mother
> said it was the only time he was ever upset with me. The 'bread' was
> sacred
> for all the reasons mentioned by you on the list. Just had to jump in
> with
> my own little saga. Daniela
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nick Tullius" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 7:44 AM
> Subject: RE: [DVHH-L] VIDEO CASSETTE -REMEMBER WHERE --------
>
>
>> Agreed! You can only report what you have seen. My grandmother used to
>> make the sign of the cross on the loaf of bread with the knife used for
>> making the first cut. And she said nothing...
>>
>> I could imagine that this was a shorter version of the same custom that
>> Alex reported. What is certain is that our Danube-Swabian ancestors
>> respected food in general, and bread in particular. In older times, when
>> food could often be in short supply, people naturally treated it
>> carefully. As children, we were told never to waste any food "because
>> some day you might have to do without"...
>>
>> Bread was special, perhaps even because the prayer "...give us today our
>> daily bread..." was often taken quite literally.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Nick
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rose Mary K Hughes [mailto:]
>> Sent: May 13, 2005 10:44 PM
>> To:
>> Subject: Re: [DVHH-L] VIDEO CASSETTE -REMEMBER WHERE --------
>>
>> Oh, Alex, no apology needed. I think it is interesting to note that,
>> regardless of the religious faith, our ancestors had religious and
>> cultural traditions that were shared. One can only report on one's own
>> experiences. I know I didn't know what the other faiths did and it so
>> nice to learn that we have more in common than in differences! :)
>>
>> I agree, the knife seems a strange tool for blessing. It was the words
>> that were more important to them.
>>
>> Rose Mary
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: ajleeb
>> To:
>> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 4:08 PM
>> Subject: Re: [DVHH-L] VIDEO CASSETTE -REMEMBER WHERE --------
>>
>>
>> Rose Mary!
>> My apology, - I knew all the people who settled in Eastern Europe, had
>>
>> strong religious faith, whether they were Lutherans, Evangelisch,
>> Reformed,
>> Orthodox, Catholics...etc.
>> I never had any experience, with the other faith's, and that is why I
>> did
>> not mention them. To me, it didn't seemed right, blessing bread with a
>>
>> knife.
>>
>> Alex.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "ajleeb" <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 11:27 PM
>> Subject: Re: [DVHH-L] VIDEO CASSETTE -REMEMBER WHERE --------
>>
>>
>> > By Catholics,- also includes Ukrainian and Polish Catholics.
>> > Ordinary bread, baked from wheat. Loafs with ca 6 inches in
>> diameter.
>> >
>> > Alex.
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From:
>> > To: ;
>> > Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 11:10 PM
>> > Subject: Re: [DVHH-L] VIDEO CASSETTE -REMEMBER WHERE --------
>> >
>> >
>> > Alex I am Catholic and if I had known about this tradition when I
>> was
>> > younger. I would have loved to pass it to my children.
>> >
>> > I wished that I had known the customs and traditions of years
>> passed,
>> > they seemed to have such meaning.
>> >
>> > The wonderful thing is once you learn about tradition you can keep
>> it
>> > alive and practice what you learn.
>> >
>> > Now this may sound wired to you, but was it a special kind of bread
>> and
>> > if so what kind of bread?
>> >
>> > Thanks for the education.
>> > Debbie
>> >
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