In years past, the church only celebrated Communion on the first Sunday of each ... Communion wine from a shared cup. But, other churches — including many Catholic churches in New Jersey ...

But not everyone feels this strongly about returning to Communion from the cup. In the Sept. 6 “Ask an Apostle” section of U.S. Catholic magazine, one question was: “My parish has the ...

The precious blood is an important part of Communion, but many people are afraid of the risk of cross-contamination from a shared chalice. Why shouldn’t we simply use separate cups? The first ...

For the first time in more than 2½ years, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese ... illness not to drink from the common cup. Intinction, the dipping of the communion wafer into the chalice wine ...

Churches within the Catholic Diocese ... assess whether the Communion chalice should be reimplemented during Mass. The practice of offering sacramental wine from a communal cup was discontinued ...

Hymns played softly as a steady stream of members of St. Gregory Catholic Church in ... Spanish — to come receive Holy Communion in person. It was the first Holy Communion parishioners ...