Drinking from the cup of wine

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Our young parish vicar got a lingering case of severe pneumonia and was hospitalized for two weeks once. A month later, he got seriously sick again. This was after a near epidemic of flu and respiratory viruses within our parish. No one knows if he got so sick after consuming the remains of the water/wine left in the chalices or not, but it took a long time for most people to partake after that happened to him.
 
I have seen priests dipping hosts in the wine at papal masses, probably due to the large numbers of people taking communion. I think that would allay the fears of those concerned about drinking from a common chalice.
 
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do you think Christ judges people with a different standard? does he judge based upon something like a curved grade?
 
philipl said:
That is exactly what is says. You just don’t like the fact that what is says. If you take a glass and fill it up 100% (eucharist) then you add more to the glass (wine) and it spills over, you haven’t added anything to the glass. Just as taking from the chalice adds nothing to the person. You may “Feel” more complete but you’re not
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You could fill a cup to the brim with hosts, until you could not get any more in. But you could still add maybe half a cup of wine until it reached the brim.
 
for the example provide, you would have to compress as many wafers as you could until the cup was 100% full. The example provide since you could pour liquid around it proves the cup wasnt full. So if we are going to use communion as an example if the church said that taking the Eucharist the participant is only 1/2 full then the wine would add the other 1/2 that is full.
 
Yes, while popular in the US, the Chalice is not distributed in much of the world. I rarely see the Chalice distributed here in Vancouver.
 
The answer is “OK.” If someone wants to take under one species or both species, that’s their business. For someone who’s not even Catholic— it’s all academic anyways, up there with, “If I ever won the lottery…” or “If you could go anywhere in the world…”

In my old city, I had been part of a group that met at a FSSP priest’s house for a series of lectures about the history/symbolism/words/actions/etc of the Tridentine Mass. At the end of it, we’d have a few snacks and chat.

I remember one evening, in the conversation after the lecture, the priest was making jokes about how disgusting and germy it was for the congregation to drink from a common chalice, and backwash in the Blood, and whatever. And since one of my devotions is to the Precious Blood— that one really annoyed me to hear a priest talking like that about it. 🙂 I didn’t say anything, but it did affect the way I perceived him from then on.

I remember in the 80’s, I went to a parish that only allowed the congregation to receive under a single species. So I’ve always been grateful that I have the opportunity to receive under both-- and a little sad when it gets taken away during flu season.

But everyone’s entitled to their opinion… and everybody’s got one… and then everyone has to deal with the rules of reality. 🙂
 
Drinking from the same cup is downright nasty. I much prefer the intinction method (or whatever it’s called)…much more simple and somewhat more hygienic. The Melkite church I attend does it that way.
 
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