Sentence examples for consecrated wine from inspiring English sources

Brautigan in his magical writing can make a gallon of unsweetened watered down Kool-Aid (a theme he returns to often) seem as powerful as consecrated wine at a Eucharist.

When peace was restored, the council defined that Christ is entirely present in both the consecrated bread and the consecrated wine in the Eucharist but left to the pope the practical decision of whether or not the chalice should be granted to the laity.

Several Catholic dioceses, including Manchester, N.H., Boston and New York, are advising priests to consider not offering the shared chalice of consecrated wine at Holy Communion at Masses.

The Vatican has said that those who cannot eat wheat can skip the wafer and drink the consecrated communion wine, another way to partake in the ritual.

Rather than consecrating the wine and bread as he held them up, the monsignor signed the words first, with unoccupied hands.

It begins with the Hesperinos (vespers); omits the Epistle and Gospel, except on feast days; drops the Anaphora, or central portion of the liturgy; and, lacking the consecration, uses bread and wine consecrated at a full liturgy for Communion.

Through the ritual of the Mass conducted by a priest, consecrated bread and wine are believed to undergo a literal transformation — transubstantiation — into the living body of Jesus, which can then be absorbed through ingestion by worshipers.

This is the point at which the bread and wine are consecrated and transubstantiation is believed to occur.

The eucharistic prayer follows, in which the holiness of God is honoured, his servants are acknowledged, the Last Supper is recalled, and the bread and wine are consecrated.

Unresolved doctrinal differences make it impossible for, say, Catholic and Coptic Christians to share routinely in their faith's most important rite which, for believers, involves "making present" the self-sacrifice of Jesus Christ by consecrating bread and wine.

A reserved host -- the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ consecrated from leavened bread and wine -- is prepared at this service and is preserved on the altar the whole year as a sign of Christ's real and living presence in His temple.