We would start with hot canapés while we partook of sherry.
We partook of some of that, but our main interest was in visiting the nearby Longhorn Caverns, a Texas tourism staple that had escaped me for 40 years.
We partook of many of them, including a showing of Boss Baby complete with free popcorn, but on one hot August night in 2017 we decided to catch some ghosts.
Sometimes twice a day-by choice-we partook of organic, grass-fed local beef, barbecued the Argentine way over wood embers, and washed down with Malbecs from Mendoza and Pinot Noirs from Rio Negro.
According to Athanasius, the Holy Spirit alone guarantees the complete redemption of humanity: "through participation in the Holy Spirit we partake of the divine nature".
I should say we partake of the city's immense cultural riches, but we go to bed and order burgers and chips on room service because we know how to live.
Fans love this and eat it up, but today's silent anomaly in Baltimore is a mirror reminder that what's been taken away from the pastime isn't the crowd but the game: what we came for and what we partake of now in passing fractions, often seen in a held-up smartphone.
When the Host is elevated, and at that moment when we partake of the mystical body of Christ, we do not say, in Italy or in Brooklyn or in Timbuktu, "It is a terrible church, unfortunately it is God's church". We accept the presence of a vivifying self-and-other-renewing God, a God who, someday, will make all things clear - why is it such a terrible church?
In this case, even if we don't directly hurt a human or animal, but if we partake of something that caused suffering, we will have to undergo some pain and suffering as a reaction to that activity.
On our final night in, we partook in the celebration of Argentina's most celebrated grape during their annual Malbec World Day where Argentina's top winemakers toasted their local star.
It was his wish, she told us, that we all partook of it because he prided himself on his soup, and because it appealed to his sensibility to share - or words to that effect.
