Any recorded epedemic or illness from receiving Precious Blood from shared vessels?

[anamchara]

Understanding that there is an incubation period with any illness, he wouldn’t.

Unless there is a huge outbreak of something, no one can tell for sure where one got an illness.

I guess we need to have faith that people will use common sense and not take if they feel something coming on. I understand what your saying about incubation period. I just think the chances are pretty low that you would actually get anything.

Frankly, I don’t think anything could survive in our Pairsh. It’s a very old Church and the Father hardly turns up the heat!! It’s always cold on Sunday morning! off topic…let me go back…I’m not a doctor so I don’t really know for sure.

 

[SeekerJen]

We just need to use some common sense here. It starts with ourselves. Most of us here are courteous enough to understand that things like a “Christmas Cold” are the last thing anyone wants. My girls were in the Nativity play at our parish. It was the year of children throwing up. Mary threw up in the third practice and a choir member lost it before the play began. Sometimes one has no clue of being ill, but if you do, think before sharing it.

Unfortunately with stomach bugs one usually has no idea until they throw up for the first time. I know that I felt fine at 2 am on Christmas morning, when I went to bed. I woke up at 3 am sick as could be. I received from the chalice twice on Christmas Eve (once at 4th Sun. of Advent Mass and once at Vigil Mass) so who knows what I passed on? I can’t worry about it because I felt perfectly fine both times.

I agree about the common sense thing, though. If I know I’m sick, out of common courtesy I receive the host only. God provides for our health, but He also expects us to use our common sense and courtesy for others.

Off-topic…what is it with this year and stomach bugs in SE Michigan? My best friend in Lansing had it (didn’t get it from me), my cousin and her whole family (again, not from me), my MIL (not from me), Rayne’s daughter had it (poster from these boards), DH’s coworkers…so many people. Do you think it’s the warm weather?

 

[netmilsmom]

Off-topic…what is it with this year and stomach bugs in SE Michigan? My best friend in Lansing had it (didn’t get it from me), my cousin and her whole family (again, not from me), my MIL (not from me), Rayne’s daughter had it (poster from these boards), DH’s coworkers…so many people. Do you think it’s the warm weather?

That is exactly what happened with the Nativity play.
Everyone that I heard had this, it popped up totally unexpected. You were relatively fine one minute, next thing it was “blip”. If one is sick like that, there is nothing to be done. In fact, Rayne’s daughter is one of my girls’ best friends. This was something that you just had no warning of, none of the kids did.
With the many of our kids being homeschooled, I think we are more in tune to keeping sick kids at home and the “throwing up” Nativity Play was just something that the moms looked at and said, “Oh well.”

I do think it’s the warm weather. And the pity of it is, with people traveling for the holidays, we just passed it on.

 

[Deacon_Ed]

But is that because it has never happened or is it because no one has done the research?

If anyone has ANY reseach on this, it would be helpful.

The only formal study on this that I know of was done by the Anglican Church back in the 70s (or maybe it was the 60s). I think there have been informal studies since then, but I haven’t seen anything that would classified as a formal study.

Deacon Ed

 

[Augustine]

Many good posts in this thread. I’d just like to add that intinction would be perfectly safe and I just don’t understand why it’s not encouraged as a means to distribute Holy Communion under both species.

 

[Lady_Cygnus]

Unfortunately with stomach bugs one usually has no idea until they throw up for the first time. I know that I felt fine at 2 am on Christmas morning, when I went to bed. I woke up at 3 am sick as could be. I received from the chalice twice on Christmas Eve (once at 4th Sun. of Advent Mass and once at Vigil Mass) so who knows what I passed on? I can’t worry about it because I felt perfectly fine both times.

I agree about the common sense thing, though. If I know I’m sick, out of common courtesy I receive the host only. God provides for our health, but He also expects us to use our common sense and courtesy for others.

Off-topic…what is it with this year and stomach bugs in SE Michigan? My best friend in Lansing had it (didn’t get it from me), my cousin and her whole family (again, not from me), my MIL (not from me), Rayne’s daughter had it (poster from these boards), DH’s coworkers…so many people. Do you think it’s the warm weather?

My parents both got a stomach virus too. I “lucked out” and never threw up, but there were a few days of nausea and I’m now just suffering from a lingering cough. So it’s on the east coast too.

 

[Marian_Carroll]

Karl Keating’s current e-letter touches on this topic also:

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=126724

 

[tmw]

Funny you say that…

I have been tetering on subscribing to NOR but after I posted that link I checked their rating on catholicculture.org. They got a “Caution” rating for being a bit uncharitable so I went with a subscription to National Catholic Register instead…

Catholicculture.org has some GREAT website reviews.

Anyway, I would have thought the precious blood’s alcohol accidents would have killed most bacteria but my wife, a doctor, says nope…

I subscribe to NOR and while I would agree some of their stuff comes across as slightly uncharitable at times. They are orthodox and I enjoy much of what they publish. I find it a very worthy publication and would recommend it to anyone who’s interested in critical analysis and debate about true Catholicism.