[pharmamom]

Just today, a small amount of communion fell from the spoon as it was being put into the mouth of an elderly parishioner, and it fell on the communion cloth. The priest immediately raised the cloth to his lips and consumed it, even though it had probably been on the lips of the parishioner.

This story will horrify you: The priest for whom I served as deacon for a time was an alcoholic, and never consumed the "leftover" Eucharist. One of the altar guild ladies was horrified by this and asked him why he threw the Eucharistic bread, Jesus' body, away. He replied, "Jesus got Himself into it, He'll get Himself back out."

[Agrarian]

Ouch.