[Magdalen] Full Communion with the USA Methodists?

[Scott Knitter]

After our Bishop Jeffrey Lee was consecrated, one of the Sisters of St.
Anne (whose convent is at our church) rounded up attendees from the parish
and had us pick up  crumbs of (consecrated) gluten-free bread from the
arena floor and put them in the bins of excess consecrated bread, which we
took back to our church along with excess bottles of consecrated Blue Nun.
All of this was stored behind the altar overnight and then in the morning
the nuns came and buried it all in the basement (although the bottles might
have been emptied into the piscina). Half of the basement has no floor, so
it's possible to dig a hole and bury things in there.

The arena (House of Hope) was a bit overly large for the number of people
who attended, too. (It was a wonderful service, nevertheless.)

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 7:58 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >> 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
>



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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA