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Non-alcoholic wine and gluten-free bread barred from holy communion

  • The Church of England has ruled that non-alcoholic wine and gluten-free bread cannot be used during Holy Communion, stating that the bread must be made using wheat flour and the wine must be fermented juice of the grape.
  • Michael Ipgrave, the Bishop of Lichfield, stated that allowing non-alcoholic wine and gluten-free bread would overturn two settled positions in the Church of England.
  • Reverend Canon Alice Kemp criticized the ruling as unfair, asking for consideration to allow gluten-free and alcohol-free elements to remove the injustice of exclusion.
  • Ipgrave emphasized that receiving in one kind due to necessity is not exclusion but full participation in the sacrament, assuring that believers unable to receive physically are still partakers by faith.
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Non-alcoholic wine and gluten-free bread barred from holy communion

Communion is one of the central sacraments of the Christian faith.

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perspectivemedia.com broke the news in on Sunday, February 9, 2025.
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