A C of E question: Should Anglicans receive Communion via intinction?
Recently, I wrote about some Anglican dioceses in England invoking the 1547 Sacrament Act as a precaution against the spread of swine flu. Before the early Communion service at my parish started on August 2, our vicar announced that he was experimenting with different ways of distributing Communion. The previous week he said that he had distributed the Sacrament by means of intinction — dipping the Host in the wine – then placing it directly on the communicants’ tongues. ’Today, we’re going to try another way, which is for me to dip the bread in the wine and give it to you to place on your tongue. We haven’t yet decided on how we will approach this going forward, so let me know your thoughts’. (Please keep that last sentence in mind.) There I was sitting in the pew thinking, ‘Will I be able to do this?’ Then, once the Youth Minister started giving the guest sermon, I was quite taken with what he had to say and forgot about it. He spoke of church leadership and the different roles: prie
