holy communion

Forty-five years ago this summer, man landed on the moon. What the media didn’t tell us on that historic occasion was that the first food eaten, and the first liquid poured on the moon were the communion elements of bread and wine. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin chose to commemorate the awe and wonder of the moon landing in a way he found personally meaningful—by partaking of Holy Communion. He later wrote about the experience for Guideposts magazine saying: “. . . Neil would give the signal to step down the ladder onto the powdery surface of the moon. Now was the moment…