I take communion wine from the cup. If I’m in the first two pews. If there are not any TB infected illegal aliens(Mexican indians) ahead of me. i’m from Southern Calif. If the people ahead of me look healthy. And then again if I’m amongst the first 2, 3 or 4 to actually sip from it, depending on how I feel about the situation.
Communion by Intinction
Intinction: “Dipping the bread in the cup”
Intinction is an ancient method of taking the elements during Communion. Many people prefer it because there
is not need to drink from the cup after another has done so.
It is one of the four ways approved in the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church for administering Holy Communion under the form of wine as well as of bread: “The norms of the Roman Missal admit the principle that in cases where Communion is administered under both kinds, ‘the Blood of the Lord may be received either by drinking from the chalice directly, or by intinction, or by means of a tube or a spoon’ (General Instruction of the Roman Missal, 245). As regards the administering of Communion to lay members of Christ’s faithful, the Bishops may exclude Communion with the tube or the spoon where this is not the local custom, though the option of administering Communion by intinction always remains. If this modality is employed, however, hosts should be used which are neither too thin nor too small, and the communicant should receive the Sacrament from the Priest only on the tongue” (General Instruction of the Roman Missal, 285b and 287).[1]
“The communicant must not be permitted to intinct the host himself in the chalice, nor to receive the intincted host in the hand. As for the host to be used for the intinction, it should be made of valid matter, also consecrated; it is altogether forbidden to use non-consecrated bread or other matter.”[2]