[AnAmericanMother]

Cheap New York State jug Port, at that. Three different churches in the Atlanta area. Of course, the D of A has always been a conspicuously "low" diocese.

I think it was for the sake of germ control, on the theory that the 20% grain alcohol would kill any stray microbes.

[Mad Dawg]

(Kolo. I refered to this in another thread, and finally decided to track it down. End-zone dance here. I remembered this from a course I took in 1975![as he spikes his copy of the Summa, and pages fly everywhere ...)

FYI and FWIW

I answer that, Two things may be considered touching the matter of this sacrament namely, what is necessary, and what is suitable. It is necessary that the bread be wheaten, without which the sacrament is not valid, as stated above (3). It is not, however, necessary for the sacrament that the bread be unleavened or leavened, since it can be celebrated in either.

But it is suitable that every priest observe the rite of his Church in the celebration of the sacrament. Now in this matter there are various customs of the Churches: for, Gregory says: "The Roman Church offers unleavened bread, because our Lord took flesh without union of sexes: but the Greek Churches offer leavened bread, because the Word of the Father was clothed with flesh; as leaven is mixed with the flour." Hence, as a priest sins by celebrating with fermented bread in the Latin Church, so a Greek priest celebrating with unfermented bread in a church of the Greeks would also sin, as perverting the rite of his Church. ...

III, Q74, Art 4