I received this email from a friend and thought I would share this since it has to do with two great men.
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.
>
>
> >
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.
>
>
> >