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Catholics: When were you last able to receive the Blood of Christ from the chalice?

It was reinstated in our diocese beginning on the feast of Corpus Christi.

March 2020.

We have official permission to do it here, and many parishes started before the official word went out. Since I have to purify chalices and have most of the conditions that place one at high risk for COVID complications, I have not restarted it.

It might sound odd or improper, but when I used to live in Asia, it was common practice to dip the Host in the Blood, so nobody actually drank directly out of the chalice.

JanetM, it's called intinction. That's been the practice at my parish of Holy Rosary ever since I joined in 2017. Happily, the church also has a communion rail and USES it.

That's also called wrong if you are doing it yourself. Self-intinction is not ok.

zeno wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2023 12:35 pm That's also called wrong if you are doing it yourself. Self-intinction is not ok.

So I have been told since then, but I expect that most communicants there would have been likewise unaware. In fact, it being Asia, Hong Kong to be specific, where locals have been very cautious since SARS broke out way before COVID, I actually think that if a communicant drank directly from the chalice, everyone would be very troubled, if not scandalised.

We receive the Blood of Christ when we receive the host, via concomitance. It is unnecessary to drink from the chalice.

gherkin wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2023 1:29 pm We receive the Blood of Christ when we receive the host, via concomitance. It is unnecessary to drink from the chalice.

concomitance ... made me look it up ... it's good to learn something new every day... not a word one hears in every day conversation

I agree with gherkin.

We returned to offering the cup on the Feast of Corpus Christi, 2022.

Irenaeus wrote: ↑Sat Jun 24, 2023 8:59 pm Catholics: When were you last able to receive the Blood of Christ from the chalice?

The blood of Christ is offered to the faithful at every weekend Mass. I do not receive from the chalice as I have medical issues that make me more vulnerable to viruses.

Irenaeus wrote: ↑Sat Jun 24, 2023 8:59 pm Catholics: When were you last able to receive the Blood of Christ from the chalice?

Last Saturday during Vigil Mass.

Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2023 2:55 pm I agree with gherkin.

zeno wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2023 12:35 pm Self-intinction is not ok.

Not to worry. That would never happen in my parish.

I never understood why they bother anyway. I agree with Gherkin. Communion under the host implies one is receiving the Body and Blood of Our Lord.

* gherkin. His name is always lower case