Only proper boozy wine can be used for communion, Church of England decrees With Dry January well and truly over, the Church of England has taken the opportunity to proclaim that alcohol-free wine can’t be used for holy communion.
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Michael Ipgrave, the Bishop of Lichfield and chairman of the Church’s Liturgical Commission, argued any move to substitute wheat flour and wine would overturn two settled positions in the Church of England.
(Photo by Carl D. Walsh/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)] Holy communion has gone on for millennia, with the bread and wine taken to symbolise the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
The Catholic Church also insists on wheat flour and alcoholic wine during communion.
