Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: bcsaic!carroll@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Jeff Carroll) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Receiving the host Message-ID: Date: 26 Jul 90 06:45:08 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle Lines: 23 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article hwt@.bnr.ca (Henry Troup) writes: >I'm slightly confused - are you saying that American Episcopal practice is >to place the bread in people's mouths? This is rather unlike the Episcopal >Church in Scotland, and the Anglican Church of Canada. Do you also receive >in both kinds? In my diocese (one characteristic of American Anglicanism is liturgical variation from one locality to another), there are two common ways of receiving the Sacrament. The more common is the practice with which all Anglicans are familiar - receipt of the Host in the hand, followed by drinking from the chalice. The second method is for the communicant to receive the host and wait for the chalice bearer, who intincts the Host in the chalice and places it in the communicant's mouth, with the words used for the administration of the chalice. This method is often preferred by recovering alcoholics and converts from Roman Catholicism. Of course, the communicant always has the option of receiving the Host only, should he/she be alcoholic, ill, or pregnant. Jeff Carroll carroll@atc.boeing.com