I'm being serious here. Do churches buy really cheap wine, or is there some requirement that the wine tastes like that?
Could a priest bless some nice Merlot instead? Or a Sauvignon Blanc? Does Communion wine have to be red? Would a Zinfidel work?
2007-11-04 07:19:08 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"I have never tasted any communiton wine tasting bad ever."
Considering you couldn't even spell Communion right, I don't think your opinion carries much weight. The churches I've been to ALL use wine, not mere grape juice, and without question, everytime, it has been worse than the cheapest wine I've drank outside of Church. Someone mentioned 'Two Buck Chuck'... communion wine is worse than that!
2007-11-04 07:30:50 · update #1
I heard the priest soaks his balls in it before the communion.
2007-11-04 07:24:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
Hey Obby!
I'm sorry you don't like the taste of the communion wine.
Here are some thoughts of mine.
Don't blame the priest. He probably doesn't buy it.
It is purchased for reasons of economy in large size bottles and jugs which are not used up at a single service. These bottles are neither refrigerated nor evacuated after being opened, so the wine oxidizes.
It is even worse when the unused (AND UNCONSECRATED) wine from the cruet is poured back into the bottle for the next day or next Sunday.
Port is commonly used, and as an earlier answerer has said, Americans are not used to this variety.
I had the experience of attending a parish )I think it was St. Luke's Chapel on Hudson Street in Manhattan) where they used a straw colored Amontillado. It looked beautiful in the silver chalice and had a subtle, woody aftertaste. IT WAS DISTRACTING. I didn't know much about wine, but I sure forgot about Jesus as I was receiving His Blood.
Hey sport! Could you afford the wine for a single Sunday at your church? Ask the priest or sacristan and buy what YOU like. They might even put your name in the bulletin, "The wine for this service was given as an offering to God by Mr. Obvious"
2007-11-04 11:59:01 · answer #2 · answered by fr.peter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Speak to some of the others at your church. If they are all in agreement, see if you can hold a wine tasting. Believe it or not, that is what our congregation did. Our church is mainly Americans living in the UK. The Brit Lutherans use Port, which most Americans don't drink. So, they held a wine tasting. Everyone brought their favorite red, plus pastor brought a few choices as well, and they chose a very nice, fairly inexpensive wine. It was radical, but it worked!
2007-11-04 07:27:10 · answer #3 · answered by usafbrat64 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are specific directives for the production of altar wine (in canon law) and it is done in such bulk it does not get much aging time and yes it is cheap using a bottle or more daily you really can't afford the 'good" stuff. No communion wine is actually usually a white and bought by the case so it sit around for a few months making it even worse.
2007-11-04 07:27:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok first the wine does have to be red. Reason - it represents christs blood. So suffer with that thought a little.
Yes many churches do serve cheap or watered down wine due to the costs. The priests usually have a reasonable lot for themselves.
They bless all kinds of wine if you want but what they serve in church has to be cost effective.
2007-11-04 07:29:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have never tasted any communiton wine tasting bad ever. What asre you drinking? Some churches serves grape juice as opposed to wine and using the name wine is only a symbol cause that what grape juice is used for anyway.
2007-11-04 07:27:35 · answer #6 · answered by JoJoBa 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Communion wine in most denominations need not be red.
Taste is in the mouth of the taster:what is bad to you may be just fine for another. You can never win with all.
Catholic altar wine must be pure grape and fermentable, as well as unspoiled.
Have you asked your pastor why he or she gets the "flavour' he gets? Perhaps you could tell your parish "responsibles' your issues about what wine is used.
2007-11-04 07:26:12 · answer #7 · answered by James O 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We actually use a Kosher wine, since Christ was celebrating the passover, that is what he would have used. But it does not matter really. We use both the common cup and individual cups. Two members of our Congregation are allergic to red wine, so we always fill 2 small cups with white wine.
Mark
2007-11-04 23:25:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blood doesn't taste good to most people. Sorry, couldn't resist.
In all seriousness, though, if you had to serve sips of wine to an entire congregation however many times you have services a week, think of how quickly that'd add up in costs! I'd argue its more of a practical concern than anything else.
2007-11-04 07:25:31 · answer #9 · answered by nobody important 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most churches I know, use grape juice. There are a lot of ex alcoholics in church, so maybe they are looking out for them...or maybe alcohol in any form offends some church members...at any rate,,it is not the wine so much as the remembrance that counts..
Maybe they carry the wine over from one time to another in your church. It is probably as old as the hills...
Offer to buy them the good stuff...maybe the will accept your offering....
2007-11-04 07:28:13 · answer #10 · answered by dreamdress2 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Good quality wine is expensive, serving dozens of people expensive wine would quickly drain the churches coffers. And yes, I do believe it has to be red, it does symbolize blood after all.
2007-11-04 07:22:45 · answer #11 · answered by CRtwenty 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋