Before we start eating, we share the holy wafer, we also give presents to one another.
"We need some holy water and holy wafer, the host."
As it crumbled into his hand, he thought it might be flour, a bit of dried bread, a piece of holy wafer, mayhap.
Piles of hymnals and musical scores for the choir lay atop crates that contained candles, holy wafers and bottles of sacramental wine.
He wouldn't be surprised if they used cornbread for holy wafer around these parts.
These holy wafers often have an image of a cross or the crucified Christ imprinted on them.
Altar-plate, candlesticks, those little boxes the Christians keep saints' finger-bones in, box for the holy wafers, those things for burning incense, some coins-a lot of coins.
His mind ran over the old protections for an unmentionable disease: garlic, holy wafer and water, crucifix, rose, running water.
Holding the holy wafer in his hand, he said-- "Adora Deum tuum, creatorem tuum" (Adore God, thy Creator).
One day, a priest, it is said, gave inadvertently, instead of the sacrament, a counter, which had by accident fallen among the holy wafers.