The communion wine that wasn't

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I hope I haven’t written about this before. I can’t find a previous post through the usual search methods. It was brought to mind following discussion about gluten-free communion wafers. Many years ago, a breakaway church group was established in a country town where we lived. A church member told us of the time the communion wine stock was found to be low, with not enough available for that Sunday’s service. The ladies decided to use diluted red wine jelly/jello. They poured this into the thimble-sized containers. Unfortunately, they didn’t dilute the jelly as much as was needed and when the folk tried to drink the communion wine, it had set in the little containers. Can’t you just see people trying to shake out their communion wine? The photo is of a statue called The Pilgrim. It’s at Clonmacnoise in Ireland.