Drinking from one cup?

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I noticed that when people go up to receive communion, they all drink from the same cup. Isn’t this a health issue?
also, what are you suppost to say when you go into confession? I recall somthing like " Bless me father for I have sinned, it has been___ since my last confession."
What do you say when receiving communion?

I know these are rediculous questions for all of you, but I’m pretty much starting from the beginning again. I will have a lot more questions, like these, please bare with me.
Thank you.
 
Drinking the blood of Christ is not required since it is already combined with the Eucharist.

When receiving communion, you say Amen after they say “Body of Christ.”

Don’t worry about your questions sounding rediculous, they’re not. Many people don’t bother asking. That’s rediculous.
 
yeah and it is indeed
“Bless me father for I have sinned, it has been___ since my last confession” then you go “since then i have…”

…which reminds me, i need to go to confession.
 
Eli&Joshys_Mom:
I noticed that when people go up to receive communion, they all drink from the same cup. Isn’t this a health issue?
also, what are you suppost to say when you go into confession? I recall somthing like " Bless me father for I have sinned, it has been___ since my last confession."
What do you say when receiving communion?

I know these are rediculous questions for all of you, but I’m pretty much starting from the beginning again. I will have a lot more questions, like these, please bare with me.
Thank you.
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Drinking from one cup is how the Gospels describe the last supper. For example Mark 14:22 "Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he handed it to them, and all drank from it, and he said to them, “The is my blood, the blood of the covenant, poured out for many.” (New Jerusalem Bible, 1985, page 1681). Similarly in Luke 22:17 and Matthew 26:27.

The health issue is addressed, for example, in a statement by the Episcopal Liturgical Commission of the Australian Episcopal Conference of 10 July 1986 “For reasons of hygiene or other reasons a communicant may choose not to receive communion from the chalice.” (“One Bread. One Cup.” The Liturgical Commission. 1996. ISBN 1-875522-10-7. page 12).

The Roman Missal of 1970 and 2002 gives other options: by intinction (when the minister dips the consecrated host into the consecrated wine), using and tube or a spoon. (See 2002 GIRM n. 245).

When receiving communion you say “Amen”.

I was taught to begin Confession with “Bless me Father for I have sinned, it has been … since my last confession.” But this is not what is in the liturgical book. It has:

"RECEPTION OF THE PENITENT
41. When the penitent comes to confess his sins, the priest welcomes him warmly and greets him with kindness.
42. Then the penitent makes the sign of the cross which the priest may make also.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Then the priest invites the penitent to have trust in God, in these or similar words:
May God, who has enlightened every heart, help you to know your sins and trust in his mercy.
The penitent answers: Amen."
Other greetings are given. (From The Rites. Volume One, Liturgical Press, 1990, ISBN 0-8146-6015-0, page 545
 
In the parishes I’ve been associated with, during flu season the Blood of Christ is not distributed - only the Body of Christ. But this is another reason I like to sit in the front row - first to the Blood of Christ!
 
In the confessional, the priest will start by saying, “In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” You may then say “Bless me Father, I have sinned,” but it’s not required. Whether or not you say this, then you tell the priest how long it’s been since your last confession, then you confess.

As for drinking from the cup, the body and blood of Christ is fully present in the Precious Body and in the Precious Blood, so if drinking from the cup makes you uncomfortable, you may skip it. However, I have been drinking from the cup for 30 years, and am also a EMHC and must finish whatever Precious Blood remains in the cup after the congregation has been served. I have never gotten sick from it. I consider it a privilege to partake of the Lord in both Body and Blood, and would never skip either unless I was sick. Most people have the decency, if they are ill, to skip at least partaking of the cup so as not to spread their germs.

When you go up for Communion, the priest or EMHC will say “The Body of Christ” and you say “Amen”, and receive the Host. Then you approach the cup and the priest/EMHC says “The Blood of Christ” and you say “Amen,” and drink from the cup.
 
I’ve never gotten sick from the common cup, and I’ve received both Body and Blood at most Masses, including packed Christmas and Easter Masses (our church building capacity is 800, and those Masses are usually standing room only). However, if I know that I am getting sick, I avoid the cup out of courtesy for others- and if I’m sick enough to be visibly symptomatic, I stay home for the same reason. I assume and hope that most people do the same.
 
When I go to confession, I usually say something like… “umm, last time I went to confession was… I think… last Advent, which makes it… a month ago?” (Priest nods.) “Aright. I have four things to say. First…”

I’ve found that starting out telling the priest how many specific things I have to confess forces me not to leave out the things I really don’t want to say.

I really do not like going to confession. But it is always good.
 
Mr Keating himself adressed the issue a while back. The alcoholic content of the concecrated blood is not high enough to kill germs, and the so called accidents of the precious blood, namely the backwash that is added during communion. I myself suspect I got a nasty cold from t aking the precious blood, so I havent recieved it since then, and I wont recieve the cup again, the only way I ever intend to recieve it if it is done via intinction.
 
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