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[derien]

Okay, I've got two interviewees lined up - I'll try to find/think up some questions for you very soon.  (I'm not very good at this!)

Meanwhile, I question for all my brilliant friends list people:  What is Communion wine?  Is it a specific kind of wine?  One of my co-workers said he was wanted to get some but he didn't know what kind it was.  I always thought it was whatever was cheap, with some water and sugar or grapejuice mixed in.  One of our other co-workers said Communion wine was always just grapejuice at her church.  He thinks that it's something specific and that most Catholic churches would use the same type. 

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[daegaer.livejournal.com]

Catholic (and Anglican) communion wine *that I personally have had in Ireland* has been a deep gold, semi-sweet wine, rather like a very good quality heavy sherry. It very probably is available only from ecclesiastical suppliers and not likely sold in small enough quantities for individual purchasers (while only a very little is used in each Catholic Mass - only the priest and the communion servers usually take a sip - there needs to be enough for every adult communicant in an Anglican service). Whatever type of wine that is, it's top-quality and not going to be cheap.

Other denominations use other things, especially if they are of the theological opinion that Communion is a memorial rather than a re-enactment. The Salvation Army - if it practices Communion at all, which I'm suddenly not sure - uses water, as do the Mormons; some evangelical churches use grape juice (and claim "wine" in the Bible is non-alcoholic grape juice too); some churches use low-alcohol/non-alcohol wine.

[luvsrimmer.livejournal.com]

I personally never took wine when I was Catholic, but the wine I had at a Pentecostal church was more like grape juice.