[Sca-cooks] Okay, so this is vaguely food-related...

[AEllin Olafs dotter]

Right. When my mom was dying, and could no longer swallow, I arranged 
for her to receive just the wine. It's not usually done because of 
logistics (lots easier to pop the host into a case and put it in your 
pocket, for hospital visits. We did this after Mass was said in the 
health facility, and we just had to carry the chalice down the hall) but 
it is perfectly theologically acceptable.

It was traditional to receive only the wafer for centuries, and some 
parishes still only offer that. There are probably people and/or 
parishes who think it is somehow "better" but it is not. It's nice to 
receive under both species, but just as only the Bread is fine, so is 
only the Wine.

AEllin

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise wrote:

>>The Catholic church, OTOH, has refused to formulate a gluten-free 
>>communion wafer for celiac patients.
> 
> 
> When I was a Catholic, in the diocese of Harrisburg, people were not 
> required to recieve communion 'under both species', so one could take the 
> wafer and not the wine, or the wine and not the wafer, I believe. 
>