Where do Catholics get the wafer and wine for the Eucharist?

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Before it is consecrated, where do priest order these things? Are they made from a factory, a monastery? Where?

Also, I see the priest only consecrate one big piece of the Eucharist, where do all the little tiny pieces and other cups of Eucharist come from? Were they consecrated beforehand in another mass? This goes along with the wine too.
 
The proper forum would be Liturgy.

There are suppliers out there for parishes to purchase supplies for Holy Communion.

As for the consecration, sometimes the Body of Christ may be pre-consecrated from a previous Mass, this would be kept in the tabernacle. The Blood of Christ is never reserved, so what you see at Mass is consecrated at that Mass.

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Before it is consecrated, where do priest order these things? Are they made from a factory, a monastery? Where?
This is handled differently by each parish. There are some large supply companies, while some are produced by religious, and others are even produced by parishoners.

Wine is a little easier to handle… even wine bought from a grocery store can suffice as valid and proper material. Even so, some wine is made by parishoners, or monastaries, etc…

Like I said, it depends on the parish.🤷
Also, I see the priest only consecrate one big piece of the Eucharist, where do all the little tiny pieces and other cups of Eucharist come from?
I’m so tempted to say that every mass involves a miracle of “multiplication of the loaves”… chuckle

The smaller hosts are either consecrated, and therefore leftover from other recent masses, or they are unconsecrated, in which place during the Eucharistic prayer they are consecrated along with the “main host” (not an official term!) which the priest uses during the mass. Some of these large hosts are divided with breaking points so that the priest can easily fracture it for consumption… which is likewise a source of some of the “smaller pieces”.
Were they consecrated beforehand in another mass?
Possibly. Before mass the priest will determine the number of consecrated hosts in the tabernacle, will estimate the attendance at the mass, and will portion an appropriate number of unconsecrated hosts for the mass (so that the total will be just slightly over the number of mass attendees). So at any given mass, some of the hosts will likely be from previous masses, some will be consecrated and consumed DURING the mass, and some will be consecrated and remain for the next mass.
This goes along with the wine too.
Wine is a different story… the consecrated wine, the Blood of Christ, is consumed by the priest (sometimes with a little assistance if needed) after the laity have all approached the altar (although in some cases communion is ONLY offered under the species of the Body, so only enough wine for the priest is consecrated). The priest then purifies the chalices afterwards.

This is likely because the accident of wine is susceptable to “turning”… aka, it fouls and begins to become vinegar in sustained contact with air. Since pouring the Blood into another vessel for storage lacks reverence and exposes it to risk of spilling, this is simply not done. Thus in order to preserve the dignity of the accident as suiteable for the Blood of Christ, it is consumed immediately.
 
When I lived in Northern California, my parish used to order from Kaufers It’s kind of interesting to browse their website. Not many of us need a one pound box of incense, though…

Now I live in SoCal, I don’t know where we get the hosts, but the altar wine is from San Antonio Winery.
 
All I can say is: wow. For some reason, I just could not see a pack of unconsecrated hosts sitting on a grocery shelf. 🤷
The picture in that site appears to have been taken at a convenience store in the Philippines. It’s not a big shocker that they’d sell them there, actually. It’s a very religious country. I was delighted when I saw that.

There are a lot of priests too who go around to do Mass at people’s homes or organisations. It’s done a lot more frequently than we do in the US. So it’s convenient that they can pick it up on the go like that.

It was very nice staying in a Catholic country. They even have the Divine Mercy 3PM Devotion on the major national networks and on the radio.
 
The picture in that site appears to have been taken at a convenience store in the Philippines. It’s not a big shocker that they’d sell them there, actually. It’s a very religious country. I was delighted when I saw that.

There are a lot of priests too who go around to do Mass at people’s homes or organisations. It’s done a lot more frequently than we do in the US. So it’s convenient that they can pick it up on the go like that.

It was very nice staying in a Catholic country. They even have the Divine Mercy 3PM Devotion on the major national networks and on the radio.
I AM from the Philippines, but that’s the first time I saw Eucharistic bread being sold in a grocery, or for that matter, a convenience store. I guess I wasn’t hanging around the right circles. 😛 (To be honest, the first time I saw the pic, I was slightly bemused by the Regent Chocolate Cake sitting beside the hosts. I was thinking, they also have that in America? :hmmm:) Ah, the good ol’ days when TV stations actually stayed off during the Easter Triduum…😃
 
I AM from the Philippines, but that’s the first time I saw Eucharistic bread being sold in a grocery, or for that matter, a convenience store.
Actually upon closer inspection, it looks like it’s from Rustan’s.

I bought Mass wine from a convenience store there before, actually. I forget what the convenience store name was (it’s a 7-Eleven now though).
 
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