Grape juice.

We don't have that.

We don't do a Seder meal, so I can't speak for that, but at communion we offer both wine and grape juice. I don't have a preference for either - I tend to pick what feels right for me on the day.

At our seder supper, we offered kosher red wine, white wine (because someone brought a bottle to share), de-alcoholized red wine, grape juice and water.

But communion is strictly Welch's.

I've used red wine, white wine, mead, grape juice, water and various other juices depending on the purpose of the ritual.

Hi Jobam,

Here we use grape juice, though to be honest I think they have gone the grape drink route once or twice, hard to tell with the sip we get.

Grace and peace to you.

John

Grape juice here.

grape

juice here also

grape juice all the way

We have a Maundy Thursday service but it has never been a seder, as far as I know.

Grape juice, or as the old Methodist ritual used to refer to it, 'the pure, unfermented juice of the grape'

usually grape juice for communion; occasionally we used to have wine & juice available, but not lately.  Once when away with our youth group we used orange juice, because they decided they wanted to have communion and that was all we had - good to be flexible!

I vaguely recall a conversation about united churches and alcohol.  I thought all the churches were alcohol free.  It came up because there was a fundraiser and in order to serve wine it couldn't be done at the church.  Maybe it's just those with Methodist roots though?

It.s a board discision, I believe.

Some of the things considered revolves around children receiving communion and respect for our friends who suffer addiction problems.. To make them all welcome......... I stand to be corrected.

somegal,

How exactly does that work? How do you label the little glass cups?

Rich blessings.

There's two ways to determine which drink you are dipping your bread into. Our communion is taken at stations, usually at the front of the church. Everything is in alphabetical order: bread, juice, wine. Also, the juice is always in a pottery chalice and the wine is in a silver one (this is announced each time by the minister, printed in the bulletin and put up on the screen).

Ah, okay, thanks. We don't do that "by intinction" thing. 

I found intinction revolting.  I was way too aware of all those fingers dipping into the juice. 

I hadn't thought of that, kay.  In all the years that I've been assisting with the serving of communion, I haven't seen any fingers actually go into the liquid.  People seem to be quite aware of the ick-factor and are careful to make sure only the bread touches.  We also always have a station for people who are immuno-compromised or prefer to have a wrapped cracker and cup of juice instead of the standard intinction.

As far as I know, every church at which I've received communion has used grape juice.

FingersÉ Um... the idea is to dip the bread in there. Whoès putting in their fingersÉ And, since Ièm asking questions, whatès wrong with my keyboardÉ

Was wondering the same thing, Jae.

somehow you appear to have your keyboard set to french lettering Jae

Thanks P3 and Rowan. Can you please tell me how I switch it back to English if you knowÉ Thanks.

Jae, in case you haven't figured it out, here's how I change my keyboard back when I have that issue. There is a little keyboard icon at the bottom right corner of my screen. I click on it and then click on the language I wish to use. I hope that helps.

Yeah, I'm always fairly careful to only touch the bread/wafer (I've seen both used but I suppose that's another thread) into the liquid but maybe not all are so careful. I've only been to communion at one of the UCCan churches I attended over the past couple years and they used intinction in grape juice. My family church, at least when I was going there, used individual cups of grape juice passed out in the manner of an offering plate. Always grape juice, though. Never had wine for communion that I can recall.

Mendalla

We use individual glasses but they are not passed around. We go up to one or two stations at the front of the church.

After drinking from the little glass, it is replaced on the same tray that holds the full glasses. This has never seemed like the very best thing to me.

We have the little squares of bread already cut up. In another church, I saw it done differently. The server held the loaf of bread and broke off a little piece for each person who came up for communion.

One day, a visitor bent over and took a bite out of the full loaf that was in the server's hands.

whoa- awkward!

My experience of intinction is similar - only the bread is dipped.  But I had someone (who I think was daring everyone, actually) take the cup and sip right from it.  Whaddya do??  head scratcher.  He wasn't last in line either.

we use grape juice too, though it gets modified when communion is taken out to people's homes.  Cranberry has been used from time to time for that.