what type of bread and wine do catholics use in the sacrament of the eucharist?

9 responses so far ↓

• 1 Blue Ball of Doom [Blue Atheati] // Oct 27, 2008

  Kroger style wheat bread and wine.

• 2 Tolstoyevsky // Oct 27, 2008

  Yet another thing the Mother Church got right.

  Jesus did not turn water into grape juice, nor did He pass around a mug of Welch’s at the Last Supper.

• 3 mary ann // Oct 27, 2008

  A Host (wafer) and Sacramental wine. God Bless…

• 4 spiritroaming // Oct 27, 2008

  1412 The essential signs of the Eucharistic sacrament are wheat bread and grape wine, on which the blessing of the Holy Spirit is invoked and the priest pronounces the words of consecration spoken by Jesus during the Last Supper: “This is my body which will be given up for you. . . . This is the cup of my blood. . . .”

  http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p2s2c1a3.htm

• 5 misty0408 // Oct 27, 2008

  We use wafers made of wheat flour and water, and wine. The elements must be these “proper elements” or they cannot be consecrated. We can never use grape juice, or loaf bread, crackers etc.

• 6 Mike K // Oct 27, 2008

  Hello,

  In most cases the bread is an unleven flat round wafer though I have seen other forms of bread used on rare occasions. The wine has alcohol and according to church rules it must be a natural wine. It is usually a white wine.

  Cheers,

  Michael Kelly

• 7 Habemus Papaum // Oct 27, 2008

  Unleavened bread which the host is made of Wheat and the wine as Altar wine or as instricted by the bishop/ Cardinal or the Pope of the Archdioese

• 8 Sniper // Oct 27, 2008

  Unleavened and port wine!!!

• 9 Daver // Oct 27, 2008

  The proper term for “wafer” is ‘host’. It depends on the parish. Some use the hosts, others use bread. It doesn’t matter which is used so long as the bread is wheat-based.

  Wine is used, not grape juice, because wine is what Jesus used at the Last Supper.