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To: NYer

"In most ot the Eastern Catholic Churches, communion is distributed by ONLY a priest or deacon and by intinction (the priest dips the consecrated host into the Precious Blood and places it on the tongue of the recipient."

Actually, that is a Latinization. The Eastern Churches never used an unleavened "host" until Rome got ahold of them. Most (indeed the overwhelming majority) Eastern Catholics today receive communion the way the Orthodox do, on a spoon with both the consecrated "bread" and the "wine" administered by a priest or deacon.


7 posted on 01/22/2006 5:15:13 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: Kolokotronis
Eastern Catholics today receive communion the way the Orthodox do, on a spoon with both the consecrated "bread" and the "wine" administered by a priest or deacon.

Is the consecrated "bread" dipped in the "wine" before it is administered on a spoon? If so, is this not 'intinction'? The Latin Church administers the two separately, acknowledging that reception of either species is fully valid. Perhaps I am wrong but I don't know of any Eastern Church that follows this practice.

13 posted on 01/23/2006 11:59:32 PM PST by NYer (Discover the beauty of the Eastern Catholic Churches - freepmail me for more information.)
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