No, the chalice is traditionally made of metal. Ours looks like this:
for the grape juice that is
We do not use grape juice in the Lord's Supper. Wine is the element that Christ used in instituting the Sacrament of his Body and Blood, and so that is what we use.
I don’t drink alcohol. I think anyone giving it to children should be imprisoned.
If I had stayed in the USSA, I would have joined the Lutherans, as many Episcopalians did, but the nearest would have been in Memphis, 60 miles from me.
I did visit one Lutheran church in South Carolina, a few years prior to my “escape from America”.
The reason is that you have to put an additive that was only discovered by a Mr. Welch a little over a century ago into grape juice to keep it from fermenting into wine.