Sacred Food Ritual in The Sopranos

In Catholic ritual, there is the tradition of giving a Communion wafer to a dying person to spiritually nourish them on their journey out of this world and into the next. Fans of the TV series The Sopranos may have recognised intimations of the Viaticum Eucharistae in the heavily symbolic final episode. Seconds before what we presume is Tony’s death, Tony, Carmela and A.J. eat unusually small, communion-sized onion rings, by placing them flat on their tongues as though taking Communion, exactly as young boys and girls all over the world are taught to do when preparing for their momentous First Holy Communion.

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