Recent Tiber-swimmer The Pontificator (Fr. Al Kimel) offers a thought-provoking argument why Eucharistic communicants should use a common cup instead of intinction. Excerpts:
The Gospel narratives of the Last Supper are clear: “Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks he gave it to them, and all of them drank from it” (Mark 14:23). . . . Intinction was, at various times, entertained by the Church; but each time it was rejected and the act of drinking from the cup was reaffirmed.
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Strangers do not drink from the same vessel. Communion in the loving cup of the Lord establishes the baptized as the family of the new covenant.
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The common cup has been studied for over a century and has never been identified as responsible for the communication of disease.
Fr. Al’s posting lists some additional references of interest.
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