{"id":58457,"date":"2021-11-24T18:54:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T00:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=58457"},"modified":"2021-11-29T10:14:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T16:14:52","slug":"the-chalice-in-a-time-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/24\/the-chalice-in-a-time-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chalice in a Time of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Prague recently and visited the famous <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bethlehem_Chapel\">Bethlehem Chapel<\/a>. This Chapel played an important part in the early history of the Hussite movement in Bohemia. I took the photograph that accompanies this post from a painting of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jan_Hus#Execution\">Jan Hus<\/a> being burned a t the Council of Constance on the wall of the Bethlehem Chapel. Thinking of Hus\u2019 promotion of the administration of the Chalice to the laity led me to reflect on the role of the Chalice in our own time. The administration of the Chalice became common in some Catholic areas in the years since Vatican II.\u00a0 But I think that in most Catholic celebrations in this COVID time the Chalice is not being offered to the faithful.<\/p>\n<p>For Catholics our go to justification for not offering the Precious Blood to the faithful is the Church\u2019s teaching on <a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/06\/more-on-communion-under-both-forms-and-concomitance-in-manchester-new-hampshire\/\">concomitance<\/a>. While this teaching is true and Jesus is present Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in the Eucharistic Bread, at the Last Supper Jesus did say \u201cDrink of it, all of you; for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins\u201d (Mt 26:27\u201328). Unfortunately, Catholics do not take this command of Jesus seriously enough.\u00a0 Maybe we could even learn from some of other Churches. A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/livingchurch.org\/covenant\/2021\/11\/22\/coronavirus-and-communion-in-one-kind\/\">post<\/a> at the Anglican Covenant site by Drew Nathaniel Keane says that \u201cthe 2009 swine flu seems to be the first time since the Reformation that Bishops of the Church of England restricted access to the cup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The return to the reception of the chalice cannot be delayed indefinitely. A 1998 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntnl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Common-Cup-CDC.pdf\">letter to the editor<\/a> of the <em>American Journal of Infection Control <\/em>by a group of doctors working at the Centre for Disease Control DC in Atlanta stated that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the risk for infectious disease transmission by a common communion cup is very low, and appropriate safeguards-that is, wiping the interior and exterior rim between communicants, use of care to rotate the cloth during use, and use of a clean cloth for each service-would further diminish this risk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another 1988 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S016344538896029X?via%3Dihub\">article<\/a> in the <em>Journal of Infection<\/em> entitled \u201cThe hazard of infection from the shared communion cup\u201d looking at the issues from the perspective of the HIV crisis reached the conclusion that \u201cCurrently available data do not provide any support for suggesting that the practice of sharing a common communion cup should be abandoned because it might spread infection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Life will always have risks no matter what we do.\u00a0 We need to see what are the acceptable risks in order to decide when it is safe to resume the common chalice in this time of COVID-19 and if it is not yet the moment to start offering the Chalice again, what conditions need to be met before we can do so.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, we need to see are there other acceptable short term solutions. In the Evangelical world <a href=\"https:\/\/www.truevinecommunion.com\/\">TrueVine<\/a>, a church supply company is selling Prefilled Communion Cups. Their website informs us that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>TrueVine Prefilled Communion Chalices offers the best communion experience for your congregation. You will appreciate the superior quality, great tasting Concord grape juice, fresh bread, and easy open seals on top and bottom. Available in Juice or Wine along with Regular or Gluten-Free bread.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This little plastic cup has a foil closing on top and bottom. The top has a portion of wine or grape juice and the bottom has a small piece of bread. This product would not be suitable for Catholic liturgy. But I admire their inventiveness. Perhaps we need to think of something similar (which obviously respects the need to protect the particles of the Blessed Sacrament).\u00a0 Here I am not trying to scandalize or push people to do things that are not safe.\u00a0 But I think that we must strive to return to the Chalice as a necessary part of our liturgical practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Prague recently and visited the famous Bethlehem Chapel. This Chapel played an important part in the early history of the Hussite movement in Bohemia. 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He has studied at Seton Hall University (BA, MDiv), the University of Notre Dame (MA), and St Vladimir\u2019s Orthodox Theological Seminary (MTh). He holds a Doctorate in Theology (Ph.D.) from St Patrick\u2019s College, Maynooth and is in the process of completing a second doctorate (D.D) in the Pontifical Facultad de Teolog\u00eda Redemptoris Mater in Callao, Peru. Neil has published a translation of the Confessio of St. Patrick: St. Patrick: His Confession and Other Works (Totowa, NJ, 2009), as well editing the third edition of Fredrick Edward Warren\u2019s The Liturgy and Ritual of the Celtic Church (Piscataway, NJ, 2010). In 2011 the University of Notre Dame Press published The Eucharist in Pre-Norman Ireland an adaptation of his doctoral thesis and in 2017 the Alcuin Club published his Liturgical Orientation: The Position of the President at the Eucharist. His articles have appeared in The Irish Theological Quarterly, New Blackfriars, The Furrow and Antiphon. He writes a monthly article on some aspect of the theology of Pope Francis in the Messenger of St. Anthony and blogs regularly at PrayTell.","url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/author\/nxodonoghue\/"}]}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_3421-scaled.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58459,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58457\/revisions\/58459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}