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Latinopadre	Eucharistic Fast	Lead	[-]
Posts: 1238 Jan 8 07 5:28 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Tags : None I noticed on another board that there was some confusion regarding the Eucharistic Fast. Some of the younger members of that board had never heard of fasting from midnight let alone the four hour fast. Just wondering what the practice (official or non official) is for those on this forum.
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Latinopadre	Re: Eucharistic Fast	#1	[-]
Posts: 1238 Jan 8 07 5:32 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Don't want to skew my own poll, but the midnight fast is for me the best way to go, spiritually. But as a diabetic, if I don't offer Mass early enough, I find no sin in a glass of orange juice a couple of hours before a late Mass, (from the experience of a couple unusual Masses I have offered when under the influence of hypoglycemia.)
jbc1949	Re: Eucharistic Fast	#2	[-]
Posts: 6504 Jan 8 07 6:25 PM Camerlengo & Grand Inquisitor Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	4 hours fast? Don't you mean the Pian 3 hours fast? I usually go to Church before I eat, so I effectively fast from Midnight on. Yet, I have no problem with a 3 hours fast, or even the post-V2 1 hour fast, depending upon the intentions. I still like the way the Orthodox go about it. They are really serious about fasting.
PD	Re: Eucharistic Fast	#3	[-]
Posts: 2303 Jan 8 07 7:24 PM prescott-anglican.org Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I usually do the three hour thing. My first Mass is at 9.00am and the second Mass is at 10.30am, so I find from midnight a bit dicey from the staying upright at the altar at the second Mass. If I am only celebrating an early Mass - say 8 or 9am I fast from midnight. In exceptional circumstances, such as when we are travelling I will go with the one hour rule, which I regard as licit, if not exactly best practice. Yours, Fr. Peter
smirennikov	Re: Eucharistic Fast	#4	[-]
Posts: 61 Jan 8 07 7:58 PM www.orthodoxtidings.com Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I don't know what the custom is in Catholicism and Anglicanism, but American Orthodox often do Vesperal Liturgies--a combo of Vespers and Liturgy. At my Antiochian church, we don't eat after lunch. I try and keep six hours in between my last drink and bite and receiving communion. Apparently, 6 hrs is the OCA rule, perhaps because many in the early OCA/Metropolia were blue collar workers working long shifts, perhaps in the evenings, so fasting from midnight might not do it for someone whose shift ends at 3 a.m. Just a theory. Albeit, frequent communion in Orthodoxy is "new," revived by saints of the 18-19th centuries.
jbc1949	Re: Eucharistic Fast	#5	[-]
Posts: 6504 Jan 8 07 8:55 PM Camerlengo & Grand Inquisitor Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Even before V-2 a RC priest saying more than one mass on Sunday and Holy Days of Obligation was not required to fast after the first mass. This is still true, I think. Also, ISTR that Orthodox praxis in the parish is for the altar and the priest to fast. Thus after the Divine Liturgy the fast has been broken (legitimately) so there are no more Divine Liturgies. Given its length, one would be hard pressed to schedule more than one Divine Liturgy on a Sunday morning. Jim
Latinopadre	Re: Eucharistic Fast	#6	[-]
Posts: 1238 Jan 8 07 11:40 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	That was a modification to the rubrics that came about (I think under Pius XII, possibly Pius X) There was a time when only water could be taken at the ablutions, in order to not break the fast. As to the three hour fast, I'm lucky to remember what I ate for breakfast, let alone what happened in 1957 when Pope Pius XII allowed evening Masses and the three hour fast. To think there was a time when my head was used as more than just a place to keep my glasses from getting stepped on. At least we have others here who are still able to keep me on the straight and narrow when I wander aimlessly through cyber space. One advantage I have over Fr. Peter and the Anglican Clergy here is that I can consecrate a small amount of wine, I usually get strange looks from a first time acolyte serving a Mass I offer, as I put about half an ounce of wine, and stop them at a couple of drops of wine a the purification of the fingers. As I don't share the chalice, I'm not left with a whole cup or flagon full at the purification.
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PD	Re: Eucharistic Fast	#7	[-]
Posts: 2303 Jan 9 07 10:21 AM prescott-anglican.org Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The edition of Ritual Notes (the 11th of 1964 which reflects the rubrics of the 1962 Missal) that we use as the standard in this diocese makes a great point of reminding celebrants to use water only for the ablutions if there is only a short interval between Masses. The chalice can be a bit of a problem on occasions such as Funeral Masses and Christmas Eve when there are a lot of people in Church, but the proportion of communicants is lower than average. An unexpectedly large number of people receiving by intinctiin can also upset one's calculations. I remember one funeral where we had 80 jammed in the church, so I consecrated enough for 60, and only 25 communicated. The deacon had to help me out with the chalice. Fr. Peter
Mangoe	Re: Eucharistic Fast	#8	[-]
Posts: 1361 Sep 11 07 12:02 PM Member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I remember once at my old parish going through the passage between the church and the sanctuary and being stopped by a lady from the altar guild, who handed me a nearly full chalice and commanded me to drink it. I don't know how it happened, but somehow they had ended up with a lot of consecrated wine and no place to put it (they didn't have a piscina).
Latinopadre	Re: Eucharistic Fast	#9	[-]
Posts: 1238 Sep 11 07 12:02 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	One reason I like not having to share the chalice. I know there are sippers and gulpers, and if I only consecrate the wee bit that I do for myself, I don't have to worry about calculations.
jbc1949	Re: Eucharistic Fast	#10	[-]
Posts: 6504 Sep 11 07 4:30 PM Camerlengo & Grand Inquisitor Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	And don't forget the modern practice of fasting from the Confessional!
Latinopadre	Re: Eucharistic Fast	#11	[-]
Posts: 1238 Sep 11 07 5:59 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It has almost reached the point of total abstinance. Gone are the hours and lines at the confessional, along with the dread of sin.
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