{"id":3032,"date":"2011-11-12T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3032"},"modified":"2025-09-28T22:15:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T22:15:51","slug":"another-reason-to-be-catholic-an-official-blessing-for-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3032","title":{"rendered":"Another reason to be Catholic &#8211; an official Blessing for Beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong><\/span> I have a number of friends named Maria. One of them &#8211; very attentive &#8211; made the following point in an email: <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;\">I hate to break it to you, but that looks more like an Anglican service, not Catholic &#8211; did you notice the WOMEN in the picture??<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;\">I replied:<\/span><\/em>&#0160;<a><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">yes, did you see the reference below the picture?<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Anyway they borrowed the Blessing from us.<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catholic-beer-review.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/blessing-of-beer-from-rituale-romanum.html\" title=\"http:\/\/catholic-beer-review.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/blessing-of-beer-from-rituale-romanum.html\">Catholic Beer Review: The Blessing of Beer from the Rituale Romanum<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>Ed Mechmann brought this to my attention &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/badcatholic\/2011\/11\/in-case-you-needed-another-reason-to-be-catholic.html\" target=\"_self\">\u2026we have an official beer blessing.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And check out the second&#0160;picture in the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: I have a number of friends named Maria. One of them &#8211; very attentive &#8211; made the following point in an email: I hate to break it to you, but that looks more like an Anglican service, not Catholic &#8211; did you notice the WOMEN in the picture?? I replied:&#0160; yes, did you see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5528,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions\/5528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}