Thursday, July 23, 2009

Swine Flu: Archbishops of Canterbury and York Recommend Communion of One Kind

In a measure of how deep the concern (scare?) over Swine Flu is in the UK, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York have advised suspending the administration of the chalice..

The Archbishops do recommend accommodating those (like me) who insist on receiving communion of both kinds. Nevertheless, their advisory is remarkable, perhaps unprecedented.

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Mark said...

Two comments were deleted by request (although nothing was terribly wrong with them. :) )

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RECCHIP said...

Here is a link to a study which was done in the 1940's on this very thing.

http://rechurch.org/recus/?MIval=/recus/bacteria.pdf