Page 49 - Terčelj, Dušan. 2015. The Culture of Wine in Slovenia. Edited by Aleš Gačnik. University of Primorska Press, Koper.
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The Culture of Wine Drinking
Beloved: I am my beloved’s.
His desire is toward me.
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field.
Let us lodge in the villages.
Let’s go early up to the vineyards.
Let’s see whether the vine has budded,
its blossom is open,
and the pomegranates are in flower.
There I will give you my love.
And the wise Sirah, when giving advice about life, says this about wine:
Do not aim to be valiant over wine,
for wine has destroyed many.
Fire and water prove the temper of steel,
so wine tests hearts in the strife of the proud.
Wine is like life to men,
if you drink it in moderation.
What is life to a man who is without wine?
It has been created to make men glad.
Wine drunk in season and temperately
is rejoicing of heart and gladness of soul.
Wine drunk to excess is bitterness of soul,
with provocation and stumbling.
Drunkenness increases the anger of a fool to his injury,
reducing his strength and adding wounds.
Do not reprove your neighbour at a banquet of wine,
and do not despise him in his merrymaking;
speak no word of reproach to him,
and do not afflict him by making demands of him.
Jesus Christ elevated wine into a ritual drink when during the
Last Supper he took a goblet of wine, gave it to his disciples and
said: “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often
as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” The Church fulfils this
instruction in the daily Eucharist. The use of wine in worship
greatly speeded up the development of viticulture, in particular its
spread towards Northern Europe, as far as southern England and
northern Germany. New subspecies of vine were created, adapted
to the cold conditions of the north. Although the Church elevated
wine to a high position, water always remained the symbol of
the purification of body and soul. Christening, already known
in Jewish and other religions such as Buddhism, was preserved.
During mass, water is added to wine as a symbol of purification.
Elevation of the host. At the fiftieth anniversary of the
first mass given by Stanko Ojnik in the parish church of
St. Jacob in Limbuš, 2006. Photo: Staša Cafuta.
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Beloved: I am my beloved’s.
His desire is toward me.
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field.
Let us lodge in the villages.
Let’s go early up to the vineyards.
Let’s see whether the vine has budded,
its blossom is open,
and the pomegranates are in flower.
There I will give you my love.
And the wise Sirah, when giving advice about life, says this about wine:
Do not aim to be valiant over wine,
for wine has destroyed many.
Fire and water prove the temper of steel,
so wine tests hearts in the strife of the proud.
Wine is like life to men,
if you drink it in moderation.
What is life to a man who is without wine?
It has been created to make men glad.
Wine drunk in season and temperately
is rejoicing of heart and gladness of soul.
Wine drunk to excess is bitterness of soul,
with provocation and stumbling.
Drunkenness increases the anger of a fool to his injury,
reducing his strength and adding wounds.
Do not reprove your neighbour at a banquet of wine,
and do not despise him in his merrymaking;
speak no word of reproach to him,
and do not afflict him by making demands of him.
Jesus Christ elevated wine into a ritual drink when during the
Last Supper he took a goblet of wine, gave it to his disciples and
said: “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often
as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” The Church fulfils this
instruction in the daily Eucharist. The use of wine in worship
greatly speeded up the development of viticulture, in particular its
spread towards Northern Europe, as far as southern England and
northern Germany. New subspecies of vine were created, adapted
to the cold conditions of the north. Although the Church elevated
wine to a high position, water always remained the symbol of
the purification of body and soul. Christening, already known
in Jewish and other religions such as Buddhism, was preserved.
During mass, water is added to wine as a symbol of purification.
Elevation of the host. At the fiftieth anniversary of the
first mass given by Stanko Ojnik in the parish church of
St. Jacob in Limbuš, 2006. Photo: Staša Cafuta.
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