We want to stress the priority to keep safe in all that we do and to realise that given the current situation some of our normal practices cannot be maintained and we need to be careful and pragmatic. We encourage all of us to use our common sense and always to ensure we are caring for each other. Mrs Durlacher subsequently instructed a group of six barristers to prepare a legal opinion. They disagreed with the Bishop’s reply and concluded that there was nothing in law to prevent the use of individual cups at the administration of Holy Communion. Their opinion is here: The legality of the use of individual cups for communion wine.

Bread was also used in Jewish Temple ritual as well as in the religious rituals of Mandaeism, Mithraism, [1] :161–162 and other pagan cultures similar to that of ancient Egypt. [2] :66–68 Christianity [ edit ] Part of a series on the Mrs Mary Durlacher asked a question about this at the online meeting of General Synod members in July and was told that the answer is “no”. Q68 Will the House of Bishops reconsider the prohibition of use of small individual cups as a valid ‘common sense’ pro tem way of sharing the Communion wine while current constraints remain? The president places the bread in the communicant’s hand in silence without touching the hand. In cases where receiving in the hands is not possible, such as illness or disability, hands must be sanitized before and after. If the president accidentally touches the hand of the communicant or any other surface, both president’s and communicant’s hands must be sanitized again.Answer: Yes, we hold a supply of communion wine in both 75cl and one litre bottles in boxes of 12. Due to current restrictions we can only supply communion wine on the Island of Ireland. Within the Church of England, we know that we seek to be one Church, loving and caring for one another with pastoral sympathy and accommodation. Even in normal times the practice of distribution of communion varies from place to place. Indonesians tend to prefer the results of Japanese baking, a particularly soft, springy texture that caters very well for local tastes. Japanese white sandwich bread, called shokupan, even has a spongy crust. But there’s more to its popularity than flavour and texture alone. It costs almost 50% less than regular bread, so it’s no surprise it has generated 25% of Yamazaki’s annual revenue of around 1.5 billion yen, selling at 5,600 stores. The Catholic church doesn’t allow gluten-free bread for mass at all… yet. The Vatican says ‘hosts that are completely gluten-free are invalid matter for the celebration of the Eucharist’. But apparently ‘low-gluten’ wafers, which are partially gluten-free, are allowed.

Since churches have re-opened, congregations have received Holy Communion under the form of the consecrated bread alone. This practice continues to be recommended for use in most contexts.Having a wife who is coeliac, I am conscious, too, that dipping the wafer carries a small risk of adding gluten to the consecrated wine. My wife sits at the front of church and so always communicates while the wine is “pure”. She would not risk taking it after others have been dipping their wafers. More discussion is needed. Leaving the uncovered consecrated bread for the president’s later consumption on the holy table, the president carries the consecrated bread and wine in their covered containers (a covered chalice and either a ciborium or a covered paten) to a table or other surface from which Holy Communion will be distributed. It should be arranged so that the president can have access to each element, but should not allow the president or other communicants to stand directly over them or face them. In Common Worship why is it that the words spoken over the bread and the wine in the Eucharistic Prayer are taken solely from St Matthew’s Gospel and not from Mark, Luke, or John? [ Answers, 2 September] The simultaneous administration of consecrated bread and wine is effected by the president taking a piece of bread carefully from the paten or ciborium with the fingers and touching it briefly but carefully to the surface of the wine, allowing a small amount of the wine to suffuse into the bread. Key points The president should take care to avoid the possibility of surplus wine dripping from the bread at the time of administration.

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