Why does our priest do this?

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After mass, after everyone has taken communion, the priest drinks from the cup a few more times before cleaning it out with the cloth, why does he drink more of the wine than everyone else?
 
Because, any of the Blood of Christ must be consumed at the Mass. It is not meant to be reserved. The Priest is behaving appropriately. I may have phrased this clumsily, so I hope the meaning was clear.
 
He must consume the precious blood that is left over. The precious blood is not stored in the tabernacle. He then purifies the sacred chalice. It is hard to judge just how much will be needed. All must be consumed.
 
Because it is not wine it is the Blood of Christ - none can remain to be spilled. Unlike the precious Body in the accidents of the hosts, a liquid is harder to preserve for later use.
 
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Does the priest recieve extra graces for taking more of Christ’s blood than everyone else?
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No. Even the smallest amount has the full Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Christ.

Peace and God bless!
 
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Does the priest recieve extra graces for taking more of Christ’s blood than everyone else?
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Nope. He is just making sure that it is treated with proper reverence and dignity.

Peace,
 
BListon said:
After mass, after everyone has taken communion, the priest drinks from the cup a few more times before cleaning it out with the cloth, why does he drink more of the wine than everyone else?
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***This procedure is known as purifying the vessels, a process to remove any remaining droplets of the Precious Blood. Water or wine may be used in the process.

Normally done at the altar or at the credence table, the vessels may only be purified by a bishop, priest, deacon or instituted acolyte.***
 
BListon said:
After mass, after everyone has taken communion, the priest drinks from the cup a few more times before cleaning it out with the cloth, why does he drink more of the wine than everyone else?
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If you pay close attention, you’ll probably see him pour some water in the chalice and swish it around and then drink that. There may be traces of the small piece of the Host he added earlier sticking to the walls. When it looks clean, then he will wipe it with the cloth. Which as an aside, is called a purificator. You’ve had your trivia for the day. 😉
 
Lay “Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion” may also consume the remaining blood at the end of communion. This was the practice ay both parishes I have attended. It’s probably in the G.I.R.M. (General Instruction of the Roman Missal).
 
Just a little interesting fact about churches. The sink where they clean cups and plates used in Mass do not connect to municipal pipes as they contain trace amounts of the Eucharist. So instead the pipes lead straight to the ground. I don’t know if this is a rule and true for all Catholic churches, but its the case to the ones I know.
 
PrayHarder said:
Just a little interesting fact about churches. The sink where they clean cups and plates used in Mass do not connect to municipal pipes as they contain trace amounts of the Eucharist. So instead the pipes lead straight to the ground. I don’t know if this is a rule and true for all Catholic churches, but its the case to the ones I know.
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Interesting
 
BListon said:
After mass, after everyone has taken communion, the priest drinks from the cup a few more times before cleaning it out with the cloth, why does he drink more of the wine than everyone else?
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Is it proper for him to clean it out with a cloth though? I thought all the priest is supposed to do is put water and drink the water, then the more thorough cleaning with water and drying with cloth is done in the sacristy inside the sacrarium.

Seems that if you put a cloth in there without having gone through more thorough ablutions (like in the sacrarium), you’d get the diluted Precious Blood soaked in the cloth and it’s irreverent and problematic because the stains are hard to get out.

I saw an Extraordinary Eucharistic Minister take his purificator, fold it up and put it in the cup after he distributed the Precious Blood and it hadn’t even had the chance to have the preliminary rinsing out with water, so it isn’t even the diluted Precious Blood droplets that would get soaked into the purificator. I thought that was incredibly stupid for him to do that.
 
PazzoGrande said:
Is it proper for him to clean it out with a cloth though? I thought all the priest is supposed to do is put water and drink the water, then the more thorough cleaning with water and drying with cloth is done in the sacristy inside the sacrarium.

Seems that if you put a cloth in there without having gone through more thorough ablutions (like in the sacrarium), you’d get the diluted Precious Blood soaked in the cloth and it’s irreverent and problematic because the stains are hard to get out.

I saw an Extraordinary Eucharistic Minister take his purificator, fold it up and put it in the cup after he distributed the Precious Blood and it hadn’t even had the chance to have the preliminary rinsing out with water, so it isn’t even the diluted Precious Blood droplets that would get soaked into the purificator. I thought that was incredibly stupid for him to do that.
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The purificators are also treated in a special way. They already have tiny drops of the Precious Blood on them. I have heard that they are rinsed twice in water that is then poured onto the ground, then the clothes are washed.
They wipe the cups after the drinking the water for those last droplets.
 
po18guy said:
Lay “Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion” may also consume the remaining blood at the end of communion. This was the practice ay both parishes I have attended. It’s probably in the G.I.R.M. (General Instruction of the Roman Missal).
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Yes, but they may noy purify the vessels.
 
PrayHarder said:
Just a little interesting fact about churches. The sink where they clean cups and plates used in Mass do not connect to municipal pipes as they contain trace amounts of the Eucharist. So instead the pipes lead straight to the ground. I don’t know if this is a rule and true for all Catholic churches, but its the case to the ones I know.
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Yes, it is true for all Catholic churches.

That special sink s called a sacrarium.
 
PrayHarder said:
Just a little interesting fact about churches. The sink where they clean cups and plates used in Mass do not connect to municipal pipes as they contain trace amounts of the Eucharist. So instead the pipes lead straight to the ground. I don’t know if this is a rule and true for all Catholic churches, but its the case to the ones I know.
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This special sink is called " the sacrarium" .
 
it’s an automatic excomunication to allow particles of the eucharist go to a sewer or drain that is why sacarium goes to the ground.
the proper way to recieve holy communion in the hand is to check after you have placed the host in your mouth that no small particle remains of Jesus in your hand .
if there is you must wet your finger collect the tiny particles and place them in your mouth. i recieve on the tongue, but i also am a extraordinary minister at such times i recieve in the hand. always there is particles left on my hand after recieving.
 
WMM said:
Yes, it is true for all Catholic churches.

That special sink s called a sacrarium.
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Some churches don’t have one. Ours doesn’t. We pour any rinse water in the flower garden.
 
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