[Magdalen] Full Communion with the USA Methodists?

[Grace Cangialosi]

My worst experience of over-consecration wasn't that of wine. At a friend's ordination, many rounds of pita were consecrated, and I think there were about 7 left over.  There is nothing drier than plain pita, and as a bunch of us were back in the sacristy trying to finish it off, we were speculating as to whether it would be entirely sacrilegious to put peanut butter or jelly on it. Unfortunately, there was no leftover wine! 

> On Jul 13, 2017, at 8:09 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> Roger