WILL I GET A RISE OUT OF ROBERT?

 I baked two loaves of bread today - both country grain wholemeal.

Can you spot the difference?

The one on the left I made first. It had the normal time of baking and I used the same ingredients as the second one but somehow I forgot to add the baking yeast.

No doubt one of those Catholic rude people (the ones who are always apologising) or some other Christian would look for a meaning in this. Maybe Robert will as well although I think that he'd have to run it past his priest first.

No doubt there's a parable referencing this like:

The bible: 

Bread is also a gift from God: when Moses fed his people in the desert with food which fell from heaven, and during the last supper, when bread became the body of Christ. When Jesus multiplied the bread to feed the crowd, bread became a sign of sharing. It also symbolised the Word of God which nourished the crowds.

No, maybe not. Let's try again:

Christostom:

"The same thing the Lord sets forth in this parable of the leaven, as much as to say to His disciples, As leaven changes into its own kind much wheat-flour, so shall ye change the whole world. Note here the wisdom of the Saviour; He first brings instances from nature, proving that as the one is possible so is the other. And He says not simply ‘put,’ but hid; as much as to say, So ye, when ye shall be cast down by your enemies, then ye shall overcome them. And so leaven is kneaded in, without being destroyed, but gradually changes all things into its own nature; so shall it come to pass with your preaching. Fear ye not then because I said that many tribulations shall come upon you, for so shall ye shine forth, and shall overcome them all. He says, three measures, to signify a great abundance; that definite number standing for an indefinite quantity."

Yes, that's better.

Augustine: 

 " Or, The leaven signifies love, because it causes activity and fermentation; by the woman He means wisdom. By the three measures He intends either those three things in man, with the whole heart, with the whole soul, with the whole mind; or the three degrees of fruitfulness, the hundred-fold, the sixty-fold, the thirty-fold, or those three kinds of men, Noe, Daniel, and Job."

Rabanus Maurus 

 "He says, Until the whole was leavened, because that love implanted in our mind ought to grow until it changes the whole soul into its own perfection; which is begun here, but is completed hereafter."

I think those old jokers got a bit carried away and just like the sound of their own voices pontificating.

I bet that if they'd had  the internet and on-demand television showing NEON, Netflix and YouTube videos and  series then nothing much would have come from them.