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FOF Ch 22, Study questions
Communion under one Kind
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- How often are Priests and Bishops required to take communion? Under one or both species?
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- By using which words did St Paul indicate that one day we would be able to receive either the bread or the wine and not necessarily both?
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- How did St Augustine explain that each and of itself, receiving the body alone or the blood only would still contain the integrity of the Eucharist?
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- How did the Protestants or Luther in particular, try to accuse the Church of departing from St Paul's teaching?
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- What were St Paul's words commenting about being unworthy for communion in his letter to the Corinthians? (1 Cor 11:27)
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- What instructions did Jesus leave for receiving the body and blood of Christ?
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- Which of the Protestant reformers continued to insist on the practice of communion under one species only?
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- What is the difference between the Protestant teaching of the bread and wine the Catholic teaching?
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- Up to what century did the Catholic Church commonly offer communion under both species?
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- In which two books of the New Testament are there two references to receiving the Eucharist under the species of bread only?
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- Give two examples which serve as evidence of the antiquity of communion under one species?
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- Up until the fifth century under Pope Gelasius, the faithful had the option of receiving either or both species of the Holy Eucharist. Why then did Pope make reception under both species mandatory?
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- What action did the Council of Constance take in 1414 regarding the reception of communion?
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- Why is it dangerous for people to receive the blood of Christ from a consecrated Chalice?
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- Was use of the wine re-enstated by Pope Gelasius and why?
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