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I need the proper holy communion in a Catholic church, not just a wafer

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TheGentleButFirmMadonna · 20/07/2025 13:32

Any catholic church you are aware of, which gives the whole holy communion, not just the wafer ....I need one in Surrey

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MushMonster · 23/07/2025 18:40

I am catholic, from Spain, and in normal occassions we only have the wafer. The wine is for when you take a Sacrament, like fitat communion or marriage.

FuzzyPuffling · 25/07/2025 09:56

myplace · 20/07/2025 15:52

My church uses the little cups. Not strictly doctrinal, but I haven’t used the one cup since COVID, apart from in a small group of about 6.

Same here. It's not "legal" in doctrinal terms, and I think they have to call it " agape" rather than "communion", but I'm deeply grateful it's an option.

Missingthesea · 27/07/2025 14:27

Our parish stopped giving the chalice when we re-opened after lockdown, and have never gone back to it. Just the priests receive from the chalice atm.

crystal1983 · 27/07/2025 19:33

Portsmouth Catholic Cathedral gives the body and blood of Christ at the Saturday vigil mass and the Sunday masses. Depending on where in Surrey you are, it isn’t too far.

biddybid73 · 27/07/2025 22:06

Our Lady of Lourdes on Hampton Court Way (Thames Ditton, Surrey) offers wine at its masses

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TheGentleButFirmMadonna · 30/07/2025 22:10

I found Anglo Catholic church in Guildford, Surrey with Romanian orthodox service also. I don't speak Romanian but seems it's the perfect church for the ones like me

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semideponent · 30/07/2025 22:21

That's good to hear and I'm glad you found something.

Rainydayinlondon · 30/07/2025 23:03

TheGentleButFirmMadonna · 20/07/2025 16:43

I wonder how though....the living body and bread is huge for Catholicism

I was taught that both the body and blood of Christ were within the wafer.
In the 1970s and 80s the wine was never offered.

Rainydayinlondon · 30/07/2025 23:14

The reason one used to accept the wafer on the tongue was so that all was consumed. I watched a documentary about guy Fawkes recently ( I think it was a Lucy Worsley) and they showed Guido taking Holy Communion. Some of the bread fell on the floor and I was horrified ( despite it being a film).
Some things never leave you!

Troubledwords · 05/08/2025 07:20

Of the 3 Churches I regularly attend on a Sunday, depending on what time I go, 2 offer the chalice via EMHC each week, and one offers it for weekday Masses only as not enough volunteers to cover all Sunday Masses.

mathanxiety · 05/10/2025 01:07

lissetteattheRitz · 20/07/2025 17:42

(b) There is no Divine precept binding the laity or non-celebrating priests to receive the sacrament under both kinds (Trent, Sess. XXI, c. i). (c) By reason of the hypostatic union and of the indivisibility of His glorified humanity, Christ is really present and is received whole and entire, body and blood, soul and Divinity, under either species alone; nor, as regards the fruits of the sacrament, is the communicant under one kind deprived of any grace necessary for salvation (Trent, Sess. XXI, c. iii).

This.

I am in the US, and my parish church always offers communion under both species. The church was closed during our lockdown here, but when it reopened, it was offered as it always had been.

mathanxiety · 05/10/2025 01:14

Sorciere1 · 23/07/2025 15:42

Ah that makes sense. Well if you're Byzantine Catholic, it's wise to keep your rite, you can get divorced and still take communion...among other things.

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Divorced RC here who goes to Mass every Sunday and receives Communion.

The RC church will not go ahead with the process of annulment until a couple have been legally divorced.

mathanxiety · 05/10/2025 01:24

Toddlerteaplease · 22/07/2025 09:31

The OP’s own church may allow communion in other denominations. But the RC church does not. So they should not receive in the RC church.

I think it's the other way round for Eastern Orthodox church members - those churches do not like to offer communion to non members, and advise against their members receiving communion in RC (and other) churches, but the RC church is ok with members of Orthodox churches receiving communion in an RC church.

The RC church frowns at Catholics receiving communion in post Reformation churches, and also at members of those churches receiving communion in an RC church - the 'Amen' that a communicant says when the minister offers the sacrament is an affirmation that the host or the wine is indeed the true presence, the body or blood of Christ, something that protestant churches do not hold to be true.

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