[Magdalen] Full Communion with the USA Methodists?

[Roger Stokes]

On 13/07/2017 20:05, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
> Unless there is only about one swallow left, I have never consumed the
> leftover wine. I leave that to others or to the altar guild's pouring it on
> the ground or down the piscina (sp?) if there is one. I was horrified at
> one church where I supplied to discover that they were pouring it back into
> the bottle. The leftover wine in the chalice, I mean--not the cruet.
The wine in the cruet is unconsecrated and untouched by human lips so 
can go back. That which is in the chalice has been touched by human lips 
and to recant that is unhygienic leaving aside any considerations of 
recanting consecrated wine. My worst experience of over-consecration was 
about 40 years ago when I was supplying while the Vicar and some of the 
congregation were attending the priestly ordination of their Curate. 
Somebody else had charged the chalices and when we returned to the altar 
after the administration the Reader who had been administering the 
chalice placed a chalice with about a mouthful in it back on the altar. 
I did not realise that the other chalice was untouched and full of 
consecrated wine. The effect did not hit me as I drove back to my home 
church but it did after the next service there.

Roger