When and why the wine was abolished for the laity in roman catholic church?

Answer 1

Wine was not abolished.

Answer 2

The wine has never been abolished. The Liturgy of the Eucharist still entails the consecration of bread and win into the Body and Blood of Christ.

Having said that, some Churches do only serve Communion bread, though they seem to be the minority. I suppose if you wanted a real answer, you would have to ask the pastor of the Church that is not currently serving Communion wine to the laity.

Answer 3

The bread and wine was given to the laity in the early church until the 11 century. In 1415 the Council of Constance officially denied the cup to the people. This was confirmed later by the Council of Trent (1545-1563).

Today the laity can often decide if you want to drink from the cup, however Catholic doctrine is that the bread alone is sufficient.

However scriptures says:

"And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you;" Matthew 26:27

"For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes. ... But a man must examine himself, and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup." 1 Corinthians 11:26, 28

Answer 4

It hasn't been abolished. Wine is still used in the Consecration to turn it into the Blood of Christ except when the priest is an alcoholic but then he must get a special dispensation from the Cardinal or Archbishop of his diocese or the head of his community if he is in one. Once gotten, he must use 100% pure grape juice in place of the wine.

Children under the legal drinking age in that community are not allowed to receive it during mass, something I disagree with. The individual may choose to receive both the host and the wine or just the host during mass.

Answer 5

because the fullness of the Eucharist should be received in both the Sacred Host or the Sacred Blood, both do no longer opt to be dispensed. Many church homes come to a decision out of the distribution of the Sacred Blood for some motives: a million. The congregation is merely too tremendous. 2. The congregation is merely too small (i.e. 10 human beings) 3. The Sacred Blood should be honestly spilled, one of those tremendous form of clergymen do no longer prefer to allow distribution of the Sacred Blood for the prospect that even a drop ought to spill upon the floor. 4. There are problems with intinction (the congregant dipping the Host into the Sacred Blood earlier eating it) and the priest ought to come to a decision that to stay with the Church, the Sacred Blood ought to hence no longer be made available. i understand the the church I used to attend did not distribute the Sacred Blood because they did no longer have adequate incredible Ministers, in spite of the indisputable fact that the church I attend now does enable for both, yet you need to be in the first few rows to obtain the Sacred Blood because of the quantity of folk wishing to obtain it.

Answer 6

First of all, it isn't wine. It is the Precious Blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Second- it was never 'abolished'...where did you get THAT??

Only the priest is required to consume from the cup at Mass.

All who receive the consecrated Host are receiving Jesus Christ, Body Blood Soul and Divinity. There is no NEED to receive from the cup at Mass. It is an option for the priest celebrant on whether to offer it or not.

There are legitmate reasons not to....like cold and flu season, a large number of participants at Mass, etc.

Answer 7

When? Don't know exactly, other than at the beginning of the Middle Ages (around 390 AD).
Why? Because back then many people would come to church either half drunk or sick and since their hands were shaky the clergy feared that they might spill wine all over the place. The priests were not concerned with housekeeping, but they didn't want to see Jesus' blood being wasted. I wonder of today's priest think of blood management when they deny his parishioner a sip of wine/blood

Answer 8

It wasn't. The Eucharist is still offered to laity under both Species, or at least it is in the church that I go to.

I have been to large churches where it isn't, but that's the decision of the priest, as far as I know. It seems to be more of a time factor in distributing the elements, rather than any official decision.

Answer 9

I do not know when but I would have to say that wine was abolished because the Catholic church did not want to tempt those who had a drinking problem to go back to drinking.

Answer 10

Didn't know this. The Anglican Church an orthodox church who felt that salvation was not determined by adherence to having a pope, purgatory, celibate priests does use consecrated wine and wafer for the Eucharist.