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To: sinkspur

Interesting; thank-you. The part about giving the infants only the consecrated wine lest they spit up the Host is fascinating. As you know, we receive the Eucharist under both species, using leavened bread and from a golden spoon. The consecrated bread, having been in the wine in the chalice, is so soft that even a small infant can handle it. As a matter of curiosity, when did the Latin Church begin using unleavened bread in the Eucharist? I can see what the Pope was talking about with an unleavened Host.


46 posted on 05/12/2005 4:51:01 PM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: Kolokotronis
is so soft that even a small infant can handle it.

You haven't seen James when he finds a lump in his cereal ... and he's almost 1-1/2. But he loves wine!

47 posted on 05/12/2005 4:55:17 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Every day is Mother's Day when you have James the Wonder Baby!)
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