Do Eastern Catholics use liturgical spoons?

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5Loaves said:
I was surprised to see people closing their lips around the spoon in a video some time back. So I asked about it and got the response that this is not unusual someplaces, now I don’t remember where. Perhaps outside the US since here we always talk about opening your mouth wide like a baby bird for the priest or deacon to toss the Eucharist in with the spoon, in the Churches where this is the practice.
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I was a white american convert to the Eastern Orthodox Church and I would close my lips around the spoon. In my parish we were taught to “just take It,” rather than waiting for the priest to try dumping the Eucharist from the spoon into your mouth. I think that many people feel that one might catch a sickness from the Eucharist. The priests finish off the Chalice after everyone communes and they don’t get sick. Of course if you partake unworthily, that is another story…
 
I received communion one time at an EC church and I had gone with a friend. So I received from a spoon.

Now this isn’t very spiritual, but I was shocked at how good it tasted. I said to my friend, “Are you kidding? This is what you have every day?”

She was dying laughing.
 
TrueLight said:
Now this isn’t very spiritual, but I was shocked at how good it tasted. I said to my friend, “Are you kidding? This is what you have every day?”

She was dying laughing.
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😃 Our deacon, a friend and I took a run up to another EC parish about 2 1/2 hours north of us for Liturgy a week ago Sunday. Our deacon was totally taken with the wine used there for the Precious Blood. At $15/bottle, compared to the $6/bottle we use I can see why it was more pleasing to his taste, and after all he consumes a LOT more than we do. I expect him to ask me to get a bottle of the same stuff on the next shopping list.

Does her parish actually have daily Divine Liturgy?
 
TrueLight said:
I received communion one time at an EC church and I had gone with a friend. So I received from a spoon.

Now this isn’t very spiritual, but I was shocked at how good it tasted. I said to my friend, “Are you kidding? This is what you have every day?”

She was dying laughing.
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Taste and see the goodness of the Lord 👍
 
5Loaves said:
😃 Our deacon, a friend and I took a run up to another EC parish about 2 1/2 hours north of us for Liturgy a week ago Sunday. Our deacon was totally taken with the wine used there for the Precious Blood. At $15/bottle, compared to the $6/bottle we use I can see why it was more pleasing to his taste, and after all he consumes a LOT more than we do. I expect him to ask me to get a bottle of the same stuff on the next shopping list.

Does her parish actually have daily Divine Liturgy?
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Yes. She goes to St George Ukrainian Catholic Church. I think you know of it.

They have DL at 6 AM, 7:30 AM and 8:30 AM during the week in Ukrainian though. I visited that mass before and had no idea what was going on as I couldn’t read the alphabet, but I attended the 4PM English mass with her the day I received communion.
ConstantineTG said:
Taste and see the goodness of the Lord 👍
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Amen!

Now granted, I have never received the blood from a chalice, so I guess the wine is normally sweet? I probably expected it to be a dry wine.
 
TrueLight said:
Now granted, I have never received the blood from a chalice, so I guess the wine is normally sweet? I probably expected it to be a dry wine.
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Besides it having to be a red wine (at least, I’m pretty sure that is a rule), I think the wine choice is up to each parish. Of course, there is a venerable tradition of having “brand’ wines”, if you will, specifically made for use in the Eucharist.
 
TrueLight said:
Amen!

Now granted, I have never received the blood from a chalice, so I guess the wine is normally sweet? I probably expected it to be a dry wine.
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It depends really what the parish is using and what the bishop has approved. I have never received from an RC parish that I recall that uses red wine for the Eucharist. The Byzantine Rite tradition demands that the wine be red, but I’ve seen white also used. The one we use is a bit strong whilst the one in the OCA parish I visited is very sweet.
 
TrueLight said:
Yes. She goes to St George Ukrainian Catholic Church. I think you know of it.

They have DL at 6 AM, 7:30 AM and 8:30 AM during the week in Ukrainian though. I visited that mass before and had no idea what was going on as I couldn’t read the alphabet, but I attended the 4PM English mass with her the day I received communion.
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No, I don’t know of this parish. The only parish I know of in NYC is St Michael’s Russian Catholic, where you had a not very good experience as I recall. :o
Nice. 👍 Stations of the cross and rosary said. I mean this sincerely and with no disrespect, they look like a stellar example of a vibrant Ukrainian Catholic Church in the new world.
Amen!
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Now granted, I have never received the blood from a chalice, so I guess the wine is normally sweet? I probably expected it to be a dry wine.
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We use Port.
 
:getholy: Way back in the ‘dark ages’ (about 1959 or 1960) Eastern Catholics in the Chicago did use liturgical spoons.:bowdown2:
 
tabycat said:
I don’t know. The ones the celaberted the DL were Monks from a local Eastern Catholic Monastery. BTY, I was only 12 or 13 at the time.
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It would have been better if they used liturgical spoons again.
 
Crescentinus said:
It would have been better if they used liturgical spoons again.
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If the monastery was using spoons, and it is stil open, it probably still uses them.

The Melkites normally would not, it is not a universal practice.
 
5Loaves said:
No, I don’t know of this parish. The only parish I know of in NYC is St Michael’s Russian Catholic, where you had a not very good experience as I recall. :o
Nice. 👍 Stations of the cross and rosary said. I mean this sincerely and with no disrespect, they look like a stellar example of a vibrant Ukrainian Catholic Church in the new world.

We use Port.
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I looked and found that in our parish we have two types of wine we are using:

Mogan David, Classic American Wine, Concord, Kosher, 11% alc. by vol

Manischewitz, American Concord Grape, Kosher, 11% alc. by vol
 
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