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Every Wednesday 10am, Holy Communion at All Saints Church
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Communion Update May 2023
The receiving of Holy Communion Following Church of England guidance we returned some time ago to offering both bread and wine in our communion services with the use of the common cup. It has been really good to be able to do this. Recently this has been encouraged for all churches and all services as vaccination rates are high and serious cases of Covid are low.
But in a recent Diocesan message it said this about intinction – dipping of the wafer into the wine.
May we add a note about intinction. Whilst often done for the best of reasons (e.g., out of sensitivity to others when someone has a cold), we would strongly urge you to discourage intinction, whether by the communicant, priest or another. When fingertips accidentally touch the wine, Intinction significantly increases the possibility of any contamination.
So following this advice in the Parish we will now not be offering this. If you feel unable or uneasy to take from the common cup then please be assured that the Church’s teaching is that to receive the consecrated bread alone is to receive Christ in all his sacramental fullness and this has always been our inherited theological understanding.
Thank you