2007-06-01 13:11:10 · 19 answers · asked by Vultureman 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I know maybe he doesn't "serve it" , but he has to have some kind of quality control.
2007-06-01 13:41:44 · update #1
God isn't the one doing the serving these days.
2007-06-01 13:13:31 · answer #1 · answered by higherlovetx 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
I believe there are two reasons. First, while Catholics believe Holy Communion is a sacrament during which the faithful receive the body, blood, soul and divinity of Christ under the appearance of bread and wine, non-Catholic Christian churches see this as only symbolic and a remembrance; for this purpose, they see grape juice as an acceptable substitute for the wine.
(Among some there is a concern about consuming alcohol that is sometimes out of proportion; abstaining from alcohol as a matter of faith is one thing, but fearing that an occasional quarter-ounce sip can lead to alcoholism is a little much. I've heard that reasoning, though.)
Second, and probably more significant but not often openly acknowledged, is the desire among some Protestant groups to put as much distance between themselves and the Catholic Church as possible; therefore, if Catholics use wine, they will use something else just to underscore the fact that they are not observing communion as the Catholic church does.
2007-06-03 04:02:49 · answer #2 · answered by Clare † 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Catholic churches serve wine as the second species of the Eucharist. The wine (which must be actual fermented wine) is supplemented with blessed water, because of John 4:10, John 19:34, and 1 John 5:5-6.
2007-06-01 13:16:57 · answer #3 · answered by evolver 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Your question is a strange one. As many people have said: God doesn't serve anything at the altar. That's what the priest / vicar does. Now, the reason that THEY do it is much simpler...
1. Because the people who are under the legal age can't have wine, so they give them the next best thing.
2. Many people in the church have sworn never to drink alcohol, and there needs to be an alternative.
There are, of course, more reasons than those two, but they're the ones that came to my mind.
2007-06-01 13:24:59 · answer #4 · answered by Supernite 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Perhaps the churches that serve watered down grape juice are not His...
2007-06-01 13:36:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
He doesn't serve it. The leaders serve grape juice, because there are some younger kids (7 & 8 year olds) that are too young to drink it. also, because parents may not be comfortable with their children drinking wine. In some churches they do drink wine. In Bible times they had to.
2007-06-01 13:17:19 · answer #6 · answered by pup 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Catholics use real wine for the Eucharist.
The General Instruction of the Roman Missal, section 322 states:
The wine for the Eucharistic celebration must be from the fruit of the grapevine (cf. Luke 22:18), natural, and unadulterated, that is, without admixture of extraneous substances.
With love in Christ.
2007-06-02 18:40:55 · answer #7 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not as many, which corrupt (or peddle - kapeleuo - peddlers were in the habit of adulterating their commodities for the sake of gain) the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
There's an entire ethic built around the worship of corruption described in Romans 1. It essentially means charging for the privilege of watering the original product down. I'm tempted to think that this is what money represents. It is that which has a uniform value across the market. It only exists in the human imagination. Animals don't use it. Pursuing your imagination is condemned in the Bible - Isaiah 65:2, Jude 8.
The basic truth is that everybody is a sinner, but money is there to disguise this fact and make it "more palatable."
Unfortunately, if those who recognise their sinful nature are happy to give away food and clothing to fellow Christians, and there seems to be a reticence to share on the part of those who believe in paying fines to relieve their sense of guilt, this seems to create antipathy towards the idea of helping somebody without judging them or sizing them up as to where they "fit." If money is the saviour, then people start acting so carefully about who they spend it on.
2007-06-01 13:20:42 · answer #8 · answered by MiD 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sadly Non-Catholic Christians are cheap and use watered down grape juice. Catholics use wine my friend.
2007-06-01 13:14:16 · answer #9 · answered by papadego 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-12 08:48:17 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You got the wrong idea of how it works. It's only watered down grape juice if that's what you see it as being.
2007-06-01 13:14:58 · answer #11 · answered by edguitarmaster11 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋