I'M learning more about intincturing (including how to spell it). At the Communion rail, dipping the consecrated bread or wafer into the consecrated wine and then consuming it--at first it seemed to me a useful method of avoiding spreading cold germs.
Several correspondents have condemned the practice, but, surprisingly, so far for its impracticalities and not as a breach of doctrine. The disapproval has been mainly of the danger of spreading infection. I thought it avoided infection.
I wonder whether the discussion will widen. What about the Orthodox Church in which communicants share the same spoon--to drink the consecrated wine--is it? I'm not sure. I'd appreciate information.
I'd better read Hygiene and the Chalice published by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York (1989)
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