Tiny cup chalices of precious Blood?

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Is the Precious Blood in the tiny cchalices for the Eucharistic minister the real presence? If so, I do not see the priest consecrate them, just the big chalice.

Is it valid?
 
We would have to know more about what the priest does to answer your question fully.

If your parish offers communion in both species, than the liquid in the chalices must be wine. The chalices should be prepared and on the altar during the consecration. The priest doesn’t have to touch them or evelate them for them to be consecrated.

The chalices should be made of a precious substance (usually gold plated interior) and the wine should not be consecrated and then poured out into them.

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Yes, while it may look like he is only consecrating the wine the larger chalice, he is simultaneously consecrating the wine in the other chalices to be used by the EMHC’s. The priest simply needs to intend to consecrate the wine in the other chalices when he is saying the words of institution.
 
As long as the small chalices are resting on the corporal and the priest intends to consecrate them, they are consecrated. The elevation is not the consecration itself, but rather a showing of the newly-consecrated Eucharist.
 
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Is the Precious Blood in the tiny cchalices for the Eucharistic minister the real presence? If so, I do not see the priest consecrate them, just the big chalice.

Is it valid?
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Just want to make sure you are talking about smaller Chalices, rather than tiny ones. Do you mean individual, one sip cups? Or Chalices that have enough in them for a number of people?
 
Chalices must be made of precious material. It is not permitted to use cups made of glass or paper or plastic, which is what I think when someone mentions “tiny cups”…

See Redemptionis Sacramentum for the latest legislation on this.
 
Some Protestant congregations use tiny little cups for distributing their wine during services.

I don’t know of any Catholic church that would distribute the Precious Blood by doing that.
 
Nor I.

The only possibility would be that only the EMHCs received from the chalice in that parish, but even then, they would all receive from the same (big) one, not have individual ones.

OP, are you sure you are talking about a Catholic church?
 
As others have said, the priest just needs to intend to consecrate the wine in all the chalices, even if he only has one chalice in a prominent position in front of him.

Like others I do wonder what you mean by “tiny cup chalices”. When I clicked on this thread I wondered if the custom of using very small cups or glasses (about the size of shot glasses) for communion had been introduced from out of Protestant practice. If so the cups would have to be made of an appropriate metal or another suitable substance (not glass, paper, or plastic, as most of these Protestant communion cups are) and would have to be individually handed to each communicant by a minister, not passed along on a tray the way I’ve seen it done. I’m guessing though that you just mean that in your parish one large chalice and a few smaller ones are used.
 
I suspect the OP means that the chalices used by the EMHCs are much smaller than the ornate one used by the celebrant. If not many people opt to receive from the Cup that makes sense. Although, in the former Cathedral parish they have a tiny ornate chalice for the celebrant and everyone else receives from large glass goblets. I know, not allowed, but it was the Bishop’s parish.
 
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