Catholics Who Do Not Partake Of The Wine During Holy Communion

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Fiasco said:
They’d have to be told face-to-face, and i couldn’t afford the return air fare to the US! 😊

Haven’t even told the Australian bishops yet. 😃
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Maybe if you got here, you’d like it and want to stay :eek:

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felsguy said:
Maybe if you got here, you’d like it and want to stay :eek:

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Your “eek!” is spot on!
It’d mean catching the first tramp steamer heading back to these waters. 🤷

It’s nothing to laugh about, either! 😊
 
Fiasco said:
You’re NOT wrong. There are some who think that, just like one section of Hus’s disciples, causing the Church to cease giving under both Species.
It should have stayed that way!

Even worse is the danger of losing belief in the Real Presence; and if surveys mean anything, fewer than 50% of Mass-going Catholics believe it. The taste of the Host is bland, but the taste of the Precious Blood is anything but bland!!! “That’s wine, not blood.” someone once said to me. She wouldn’t budge. "Transubstantiation’ is too big a word for some people.

There’s been a terrible decrease in reverence for the Blessed Sacrament.

People who suffer from coeliac disease should be able to receive the Precious Blood, but for the rest of us…it can trigger bad theology.
Lousy “Catechesis” hasn’t helped. 🤷
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Jesus did it at the Last Supper, Do we doubt HIS ability to do it again??? I think that is called FAITH in OUR SAVIOR AND HIS CHURCH!! Maybe we need to study up on the many Eucharistic Miracles , if Jesus’ word is not enough!!! God Bless, Memaw
 
I generally do not drink the precious blood because: I often have a beard with a long mustache, I worry about spilling, I prefer to receive from a priest or deacon and the precious blood is always offered by a EMHC, and I come from a Protestant ultraquist background. Regarding the last reason I see receiving under only one species for me personally to be affirming of the authority of the Catholic Church.
 
Memaw said:
Receiving under both Species is up to the Communicant. But I would remind you that IT is NO LONGER wine but the Precious Blood of our Redeemer!!! ALSO, no longer bread but the precious Body of Our Lord!! God Bless, Memaw
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I think everyone knows this but rather than say they pass the chalice of Blood…they are saying wine…since it is now the Blood of the Lord are all germs on the chalice gone? :confused:
 
I am at a medium sized parish and I can tell you that I always want to partake of the wine because Christ said body and blood.

The issue is that no matter how big that chalice is, there are several robust Catholics who do not take a small sip to be mindful of others, but rather a big gulp or two :eek:

I’ve been to a Latin Mass and was fairly up close and when I went to drink the wine, it was already gone after two small rows of people :mad:
 
punisherthunder said:
I am at a medium sized parish and I can tell you that I always want to partake of the wine because Christ said body and blood.

The issue is that no matter how big that chalice is, there are several robust Catholics who do not take a small sip to be mindful of others, but rather a big gulp or two :eek:

I’ve been to a Latin Mass and was fairly up close and when I went to drink the wine, it was already gone after two small rows of people :mad:
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The size of the chalice is no indication of how much wine was consecrated. It’s better to run out of the Precious Blood than to have a lot left to consume after everyone who wanted to has received. After all, the priest and the EMHCs may have to drive home.
 
ecah.homestead.com/Maronitehymns2.html

Interestingly, this is one of our Eastern Catholic (Maronites) communion hymns

Your body is our food indeed O Lord
Your blood is our drink indeed O Lord
Blessed are they who partake of them both

I am the vine said the Son of God
You are the branches joined to me
Be as true branches and dwell in me
That you still may fruitful be (Refrain)

Like those who go through a desert place
Looking for water everywhere
So does my heart also lean on you
You who watch with tender care (Refrain)
 
Memaw said:
Receiving under both Species is up to the Communicant. But I would remind you that IT is NO LONGER wine but the Precious Blood of our Redeemer!!! ALSO, no longer bread but the precious Body of Our Lord!! God Bless, Memaw
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While that is absolutely true and it is good to emphasize the reality of the transformation of the gifts of bread and wine, it is not incorrect to continue to refer to bread and wine, as St. Paul does: “Whoever, therefore,** eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For any one who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself." Even the Mass, again quoting St. Paul, says, "When we eat this bread **and drink this cup, we proclaim your death, O Lord, until you come again”.

I know that we have to be careful with our language, but if it is good enough for St. Paul, it is good enough for me

Another thing that I thought of while writing this: If we refer to the “bread” as the “Body of Christ” and the “wine” as the “Blood of Christ”, could that not cause confusion with the reality that the entire Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ is fully present in each? The wine is the Blood of Christ… and the body. The bread is the Body of Christ… and the Blood.

Precise language is important, but we cannot oversimplify so great a mystery. We would do better to catechize well, accompanied by treating Holy Communion with profound reverence and awe.
 
joeybaggz said:
I lke receiving under both, however the parish I attend withholds the cup during “flu” season as a health precaution. I miss both species but think the practice is beneficial.

Shalom
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When I am ill I refrain from receiving both the bread and the wine.
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St_Francis said:
Why should they partake simply because they like wine! That would be sooooo missing the point…
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If one likes wine it is stupid not to take every opportunity to have a sip of wine during Holy Communion or any other occasion. If I am at a Catholic parish and they do not have the wine available for the laity then I refrain from receiving Holy Communion because if the Last Supper had both the bread and the wine available then Holy Communion should be available for both the priest and the laity to partake of. Actually the Bible states that Holy Communion is to be partook of under both bread and wine by both clergy and laity.
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