
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, May 21, 1994                   TAG: 9405270137
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: B-9   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: By David Briggs associated press
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

GOD DOES NOT RELATE SOLELY IN AN INTELLECTURAL MANNER

Like a lot of his peers, the Rev. Roger Peters equated the ability to receive communion with the capacity to understand the elements of faith involved.

So when it first came time for him to distribute communion to severely mentally retarded individuals, Peters gad the feeling going in that this was absurd.

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