Eucharist & COVID @ SPC
We have resumed using the common cup for Eucharist.
Studies by the CDC and other medical authorities have concluded that "the risk for infectious disease transmission by a common communion cup is very low, and appropriate safeguards - that is, wiping the interior and exterior rim between communicants, us of care to rotate the cloth during use, and use of a clean cloth for each service - would further diminish the risk." Here at St. Paul's we incorporate those safeguards.
Those who nonetheless chose not to receive from the common cup can trust that Jesus' offering of himself is complete in the Bread.
The practice of intinction, that is, dipping the consecrated Bread into the Wine, runs the risk of inserting fingers into the Wine. We will not allow intinction durin the current health crisis.
Similarly, ministers will not distribute Communio on the tongue because of the risk of contaminating the fingers of the minister.