Valid Mass wine

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For a valid confection of the sacrament 100% grape wine must be used with no additives.
What if just a little of elderberry extract is added to the grape wine?
 
LGBOFM said:
For a valid confection of the sacrament 100% grape wine must be used with no additives.
What if just a little of elderberry extract is added to the grape wine?
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No, if that were done, it would no longer be 100% grape wine and would invalidate the Mass. Save that for the wine-tasting party AFTER Mass.
 
LGBOFM said:
For a valid confection of the sacrament 100% grape wine must be used with no additives.
What if just a little of elderberry extract is added to the grape wine?
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Why would anyone be so cruel and evil and to intentionally adulterate sacramental wine?
 
Huh news to me…back in my altar boy days of the 60’s I’m pretty sure they used a Mogan David wine.
 
Carolus_Martell said:
Huh news to me…back in my altar boy days of the 60’s I’m pretty sure they used a Mogan David wine.
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Mogan David, that meaning in Hebrew, Shield of David (the Star of David), sounds to me like it would be a Kosher wine, and Kosher wines must be 100% grape. Kosher for Passover.
 
Note that many off-the-shelf wines are valid matter. Its not like Sacramental wine is a special process that is specific only to the Church.
 
Canon Law:

Can. 924 §1 The most holy Sacrifice of the Eucharist must be celebrated in bread, and in wine to which a small quantity of water is to be added.

§2 The bread must be wheaten only, and recently made, so that there is no danger of corruption.

§3 The wine must be natural, made from grapes of the vine, and not corrupt.
 
LGBOFM said:
For a valid confection of the sacrament 100% grape wine must be used with no additives.
What if just a little of elderberry extract is added to the grape wine?
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The answer is simple. That wine cannot be used for the Mass.
 
Many dioceses, like mine, distribute a list of approved altar wines to parishes. Our list has about seventy choices in all varieties, many of which can be purchased in grocery stores, but it excludes many others as well. However, grape wine with any additives (outside the water put in during Mass) is invalid matter.
 
a small amount of 100% grape brandy can also be added to the wine without rendering it invalid matter.
 
LGBOFM said:
For a valid confection of the sacrament 100% grape wine must be used with no additives.
What if just a little of elderberry extract is added to the grape wine?
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you answered your own question, it would cease to be valid matter because it would cease to be 100% grape wine. don’t understand the purpose of posing a perfectly obvious question which already contains its own perfectly obvious answer
 
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