Why does Karin collapse when trying to take Communion, her trembling hands sending the cup of consecrated wine rolling across the floor?
The Pope drank the consecrated wine (changed into the blood of Christ) through a golden tube.
Thus in the consecrated wine, Jesus becomes spiritually and physically present.
My brain swims in a sea of consecrated wine!
Holy Communion, in the form of consecrated wine and bread, is also given to infants after they are baptised.
The priest then goes from one person to the next with the chalice of consecrated wine, of which everyone drinks.
A common myth is that consecrated wine was also poured down the piscina.
In the Early Church both clergy and laity received the consecrated wine by drinking from the chalice, after receiving a portion of the consecrated bread.
One way is for the communicant to drink directly from the chalice of consecrated wine.
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