St Francis de Sales & St Mary Magdalene

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Red, red wine

Fr dear Fr: Is there anything firmed up in the sources that lays down what sort of wine is to be used during the Eucharist?

Apparently in the theological synods around the 1990s and 2000s it was quite sincerely and genuinely debated whether a French priest youth chaplain in Paris Montparnasse was legitimated to use beefburgers and coco-cola as the legitimate and valid matter for a trendy youth chaplaincy Eucharist, and throughout the 1990s and 2000s right into the 2010s, young avant-garde female religious genuinely asked questions of the valid matter of the Eucharist posing a question as to whether they were legitimated to organise rice and saki for the legitimate matter for the trendy Eucharist for missionaries and girlie students at their PC woke colleges. Obviously the response that came back from the officials of the SCV departments in Paris pronounced these experiments as negative subject matter for the Eucharist, and noted that only in an age when people have become chronologically displaced and uprooted from the roots of the Eucharist, in Old Testament passover temple liturgy, can such outlandish questions arise to scandalise the flocks of true believers. The passover liturgy is THE template for the Christian Valid Eucharist and requires bitter red wine like the bitter herbs of the Exodus for legitimate if not valid matter, so the very sickly sweet Muscat wines that are offered by commercial new worlde Christian New Seeker companies are utterly and totally defeating the purpose. We are not in Goray, dining on honey drinks and marzipan and awaiting the coming of a new charismatic messiah. Passover eucharist requires passover wines. Besides, in a private series of conversations with an advanced dentist recently, he revealed to me that he had many many vicars on his customer order books, and all of these to a man and a woman showed signs of advanced gum disease and bleeding gums from excessive sweet red wines at the daily anglican eucharists, precisely arising from this awful dreadful sweet red wine that their suppliers and dioceses keep imposing on them, and he asked if there was something that could be done by a more merciful mother church to alleviate their suffering and their labours in extremis - he was loathe to impose upon them but he had to instruct them to ask for diabetes tests at their surgeries and then to impose a fast from the said anglican Eutychia Goray eucharists for weeks at a time, maybe only allowing one celebration a week and that on a Sunday, so he concluded with real concern in his voice that the commercial sweet red wine companies are killing their clergy, and I noting just even aside from the dubious theological meaning they keep imposing on the Eucharist, turning it into a “eucharist of next kingdom Goray gladness” or really just an invalid Charismatic Eutychia, in which the bitter diet of the Exodus passover eucharist is denied substantively, just like the bad old days among gnostics in the early Church - many of these not surprisingly died out. So passover-eucharist - passover wine.