Communion in Both Kinds
Bread alone, or bread and cup? A question that helped spark reform
This concerns whether the laity receive both the consecrated bread and the cup at Communion, or the bread alone. Paul speaks of both in 1 Corinthians 11. The East has always given both kinds, while the medieval West restricted the cup to the clergy—a grievance of the Hussites and later Protestants. The Second Vatican Council restored optional lay communion in both kinds in the Roman Catholic Church. The traditions thus differ historically.
How it traveled
- Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90)Paris · c. 1274 CEexplains
- Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic ChurchGeneva · c. 1564 CEapplies
Key passages(10)
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Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church · John Calvin
50. Thirdly, Why did our Saviour say of the bread simply, “Take, eat,” and of the cup, “drink ye all of it;” as if he had purposely intended to provide against the wile of Satan? Fourthly, If, as they
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Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) · Thomas Aquinas
Reply to Objection 3: Sinners suffer great loss in being kept back from receiving this sacrament, so that they are not better off on that account; and although while continuing in their sins they are
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Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church · John Calvin
14. But the Romanists have another end in view when they say that the power of interpreting Scripture belongs to councils, and that without challenge. For they employ it as a pretext for giving the na
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Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church · John Calvin
45. By these enactments, holy men wished to retain and ensure the use of frequent communion, as handed down by the apostles themselves; and which, while it was most salutary to believers, they saw gra
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The Prescription Against Heretics. · Anti-marcion
Elucidations. ———————————— I. (Prescription, Chap. I., p. 243, Supra.) In adopting this expression from the Roman Law, Tertullian has simply puzzled beginners to get at his idea. Nor do they learn
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Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) · Thomas Aquinas
Reply to Objection 3: As has been already stated (Q[75], A[5]), after the consecration of the bread into the body of Christ, or of the wine into His blood, the accidents of both remain. From which it
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Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) · Thomas Aquinas
What is kept, those at rest." Others, however, say that the part put into the chalice denotes those still living in this world. while the part kept outside the chalice denotes those fully blessed bot
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Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church · John Calvin
OF COUNCILS AND THEIR AUTHORITY. See Calvin’s Antidote to the Articles of Sorbonne; Letter to Sadolet; Necessity of Reforming the Church; Antidote to the Council of Trent; Remarks on the Paternal Adm
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Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) · Thomas Aquinas
We have now to consider the matter of this sacrament: and first of all as to its species; secondly, the change of the bread and wine into the body of Christ; thirdly, the manner in which Christ's body
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Misrepresentations Corrected and Truth Vindicated, in Reply to the Rev. Solomon Williams · Jonathan Edwards
I will not say, that Mr. W. knew it to be a false representation which he here makes; but this I will say, that he ought to have been better informed, before he had thus publicly ridiculed this as a f
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