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At your church, for Communion, do you drink out of one (or several) big cups shared by multiple attendees or each attendee drinks from a separate small cup?
Drink from shared big cup 8 (61.5%)
Drink from individual small cup 5 (38.5%)
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Drink from one bug cup or tiny small cups; YACP -- yet another Communion poll
Topic Started: Jun 7 2006, 05:51 AM (406 Views)
Axtremus
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I've seen churches that use shared big cups, and churches that use tiny small cups. What do your churches do, and is there any theological basis to choose one or the other?
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***musical princess***
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When communion is given to the Eucharistic ministers, it is given in a 'special' larger cup.

Then when it is distributed to the congregation it is in 4 smaller cups.

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LWpianistin
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one large cup
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i will not drink from the big cup because of germs.. i am not a typical Catholic.. practicing my faith in good works rather than believing.
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Aqua Letifer
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ZOOOOOM!
Bug cups! Bug cups for us all!! ...just one, though.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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DivaDeb
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individual large cups + real wine=less fighting about communion
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kenny
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I guess there's no church for me. :(

I usually drink my wine from a bottle hidden in a brown paper bag.
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John D'Oh
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DivaDeb
Jun 7 2006, 10:18 AM
individual large cups + real wine=less fighting about communion

Maybe less fighting during communion, but there might be a brawl afterwards.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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DivaDeb
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John D'Oh
Jun 7 2006, 06:22 AM
DivaDeb
Jun 7 2006, 10:18 AM
individual large cups + real wine=less fighting about communion

Maybe less fighting during communion, but there might be a brawl afterwards.

yeah but not for me...I'm a friendly drunk
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John D'Oh
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DivaDeb
Jun 7 2006, 10:23 AM
John D'Oh
Jun 7 2006, 06:22 AM
DivaDeb
Jun 7 2006, 10:18 AM
individual large cups + real wine=less fighting about communion

Maybe less fighting during communion, but there might be a brawl afterwards.

yeah but not for me...I'm a friendly drunk

So the brawl won't include you, but might be because of you. :)
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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George K
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We drink from multiple cups (shoulda been a Snarky Caption Contest(tm), but I couldn't resist)

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You notice that guy is well prepared - he's already wearing his hospital ID tag.
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George K
Jun 7 2006, 03:28 PM
We drink from multiple cups (shoulda been a Snarky Caption Contest(tm), but I couldn't resist)

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Wow! That guy has some talent!!

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DivaDeb
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John D'Oh
Jun 7 2006, 06:26 AM
DivaDeb
Jun 7 2006, 10:23 AM
John D'Oh
Jun 7 2006, 06:22 AM
DivaDeb
Jun 7 2006, 10:18 AM
individual large cups + real wine=less fighting about communion

Maybe less fighting during communion, but there might be a brawl afterwards.

yeah but not for me...I'm a friendly drunk

So the brawl won't include you, but might be because of you. :)

I'm good with that

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John D'Oh
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Jun 7 2006, 10:30 AM

Wow! That guy has some talent!!

x

He does now, but something tells me he won't be leaving with her.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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kenny
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George K
Jun 7 2006, 06:28 AM
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Is that Mama Cass in the background?
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John D'Oh
Jun 7 2006, 06:48 AM
***musical princess***
Jun 7 2006, 10:30 AM

Wow! That guy has some talent!!

x

He does now, but something tells me he won't be leaving with her.

:lol:

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Optimistic
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kenny
Jun 7 2006, 10:49 AM
George K
Jun 7 2006, 06:28 AM
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Is that Mama Cass in the background?

It would appear so :lol:
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Ax, just depends on the church. One churh had small ind. cups. Another church passed around a cup. Etc... I voted small cups though since I've done that more than anything else...
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Neither. I take communion wine from a chalice. :)

If it's silver, the wine has enough alcohol content, the priest turns the cup and wipes it after each "user," there is little danger of getting sick.
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The most common practice for us is many small plastic cups. Other times though, we serve Communion via "intinction," in which case there are several larger chalices passed through the congregation, and which one doesn't take a sip from, but rather, the bread is dipped into the wine/grape juice and then taken together. This is actually a pretty neat way to do it, as you often see one family member holding the chalice while the other family members dipping their bread, or one member holding the chalice for an older member sitting beside him while she dips her bread into the chalice. I think it's a much more emotionally satisfying, and frankly, more "communal" way of receiving Communion.

Edit: and when I'm serving, we elders and deacons are served in the same way, same sized cup, etc., as everyone else, clergy included - and we get ours last, after everyone else has received it.
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apple
Jun 7 2006, 10:06 AM
i will not drink from the big cup because of germs.. i am not a typical Catholic.. practicing my faith in good works rather than believing.

Nothing says community bonding like sharing a cold!

We do the cloth-wipe thing with the chalices at my parish. Nothing can be done about that backwash issue, though. . .
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Aqua Letifer
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Meh. Using a silver chalice (and especially using wine being a high enough proof) will not only properly sterilize, but make for one rockin' good time with your fellow parishioners! :thumb:
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Bug cups? :shrug:

I prefer intinction (but in the apostolic Churches intinction is by the priest or deacon -- never "self intinction"). The eastern Churches use a spoon, sort of like a mother bird feeding her young. It is a very passive/receptive posture for the communicant since we properly "receive" communion as a gift from the Lord and don't "take" it.
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my former church -- the Lutheran Missouri Synod -- used small glasses (like mini shot glasses) for the wine. there was a groove at the back of the altar rail (yes, they receive whilst kneeling) where the glasses went after receiving.

after the service, the glasses were taken into the other room, where they were washed by hand in the sacrarium -- a special sink which drains directly to the earth. Catholics use a sacrarium as well.
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