Is htere a difference between normal wine and wine for lithurgical use?!
Is htere a difference between normal wine and wine for lithurgical use?
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the wine used at the catholic church i attended and alter boyed for just used regular white wine. generally it is very cheap and comes in big jugs like carlo rossi. i suppose the wine had to be cheap to pay for the cadillacs the priests drove.
Liturgical wine is regular wine that has been blessed prior to Mass. Of course, during the Mass it becomes the blood of Christ under the appearance of wine.
As far as I'm aware, there is no real difference in the material sense. Wine is wine. Having said this, churches can buy special wine for lithurgical use.
(I'm leaving the religious aspect aside.)
In the Catholic church, the wine is blessed before being used. If it is in a Jewish home or synagogue, then the wine must be kosher to be used.
There is no chemical difference.
Liturgical wine MUST have been made from grapes, not apples or other fruit.
Vino Saccro is a popular liturgical wine. It is heavy, sweet and weak compared with the commercial product. Ideal for dilution and the congregation remain sober and alert!
In most Protestant churches, the wine used for Holy Communion is de-alcoholised, or is a friut juice, so that people with an alcohol problem are not prevented from taking Communion.
Not in the Catholic Church. It may have something to do with the C of E being the established church in England, but I do remember that my father, an Anglican priest, purchased Cyprus wine. I did once here that Methodists, who claim to be tea-totallers use Ribena.