Eucharist & COVID @ SPC
We have resumed using the common cup and allowing communion by intinction for Eucharist.
Studies by the CDC and other medical authorities have concluded that "the risk for infectious disease transmission by a common communion cup is very low, and appropriate safeguards - that is, wiping the interior and exterior rim between communicants, us of care to rotate the cloth during use, and use of a clean cloth for each service - would further diminish the risk." Here at St. Paul's we incorporate those safeguards. Similarly, according the available research that we are aware of, communion by intinction presents an even lower risk of disease transmission.
Based on our knowledge, receiving the consecrated wine through the common cup or by intinction are both permitted at St. Paul's
Those who chose not to receive from the common cup can trust that Jesus' offering of himself is complete in the Bread.