AN ARGUMENT REGARDING THE ISSUE OF CONTAGION THROUGH COMMUNION OF THE HOLY GIFTS

Un punct de vedere ortodox, dar calm, asupra problemei transmiterii bolilor prin Sfânta Împărtășanie:

For the Orthodox Everywhere

We have witnessed the rise of a novel (international) debate regarding the transmission of contagious diseases through communion, the subjacent question being whether the pathogens do survive in the Chalice. As far as we could understand, some defend the “cause” of the pathogens (the fact that it would be more responsible not to go for communion during pandemics being also suggested), other stand for the sterility of the Chalice, whilst the debate makes the believers wonder – do we contract diseases through communion or not, after all?

The Christians who confess their faith that contagious diseases do not pass from individual to individual through communion have been accused of being heretical[1] – namely docetists, as they would implicitly claim that Christ’s Body and Blood are not subject to the laws of nature, as a true human body would be. Here Docetism would consist in rejecting the possibility that viruses…

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