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Comments on: Swine Flu in the Chalice? https://www.aoiusa.org/swine-flu-in-the-chalice/ A Research and Educational Organization that engages the cultural issues of the day within the Orthodox Christian Tradition Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:21:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 By: Isaac Crabtree https://www.aoiusa.org/swine-flu-in-the-chalice/#comment-6171 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:03:59 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3421#comment-6171 Many years, Despota! We need more of this!

]]> By: Isa Almisry https://www.aoiusa.org/swine-flu-in-the-chalice/#comment-6100 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:42:48 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3421#comment-6100 I have only heard of physical death coming from communion only once: the Armenian King Pap poisoned the Catholicos Sahak (Isaac) that way. Besides that, no, not a single recorded instance.

Nor has their been a singular recorded instance of someone being drowned by baptism by emersion.

]]> By: Fr. Peter https://www.aoiusa.org/swine-flu-in-the-chalice/#comment-6099 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:12:49 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3421#comment-6099 This is the kind of teaching that I was talking about in my article on the Bishops Teaching Office. We need to hear from our bishops on the issues of the day and how we can apply them to our lives.

Thank you your Eminence!

]]> By: John Panos https://www.aoiusa.org/swine-flu-in-the-chalice/#comment-6097 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:03:32 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3421#comment-6097 Fr. Roman Braga, a confessor and currently at Dormition monastery in Rives Jct., MI, gets practically airborne if you intimate that you could catch a disease at the chalice. What medicine is better than the medicine of Immortality?

Also, I have yet to hear of a single case of a clergyman catching anything from anyone at the chalice, and they consume from the chalice and spoon that everyone has communed.

I understand the concern, but here is where teaching makes a big difference. I’m actually happily surprised to see Met. Alexios doing it. It’s a good letter.

]]> By: Wesley J. Smith https://www.aoiusa.org/swine-flu-in-the-chalice/#comment-6095 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:33:35 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3421#comment-6095 Hmmm. We once had a woman visit our parish. She had a problem (the details about which I am not aware) that precluded her from receiving the mysteries with the common spoon. So, my priest used a plastic spoon to give her communion, put it into a baggie, and instructed her to either keep it or properly burn it.

If there were a problem of potential transmission of disease, would this approach reflect fear and a lack of faith? Or would it simply be prudent? I think the latter, but I am an ignorant man. I would appreciate the thoughts of people with greater knowledge on such matters.

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