Editing Eucharist (section)

====<span class="anchor" id="Alcohol"></span>Alcohol====
{{See also|Christian views on alcohol}}
The Catholic Church believes that grape juice that has not begun even minimally to ferment cannot be accepted as wine, which it sees as essential for celebration of the Eucharist. For non-alcoholics, but not generally, it allows the use of [[mustum]] (grape juice in which fermentation has begun but has been suspended without altering the nature of the juice), and it holds that "since Christ is sacramentally present under each of the species, communion under the species of bread alone makes it possible to receive all the fruit of Eucharistic grace. For pastoral reasons, this manner of receiving communion has been legitimately established as the most common form in the Latin rite."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P42.HTM|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120616060732/https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P42.HTM|url-status=dead|title=Catechism of the Catholic Church – IntraText|archivedate=16 June 2012|website=www.vatican.va}}</ref>

As already indicated, the one exception is in the case of a priest celebrating Mass without other priests or as principal celebrant. The water that in the [[Roman Rite]] is prescribed to be mixed with the wine must be only a relatively small quantity.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P3A.HTM|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101204185953/https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P3A.HTM|url-status=dead|title=Code of Canon Law, canon 924 §1|archivedate=4 December 2010}}</ref> The practice of the [[Coptic Church]] is that the mixture should be two parts wine to one part water.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.copticchurch.net/topics/thecopticchurch/sacraments/4_eucharist.html |title=Sacrament of the Eucharist: Rite of Sanctification of the Chalice |publisher=Copticchurch.net |access-date=2019-05-16}}</ref>

Some Protestant churches allow communion in a non-alcoholic form, either normatively or as a pastoral exception. Since the invention of the necessary technology, grape juice which has been [[pasteurization|pasteurized]] to stop the fermentation process the juice naturally undergoes and de-alcoholized wine from which most of the alcohol has been removed (between 0.5% and 2% remains) are commonly used, and more rarely water may be offered.<ref>Compare John Howard Spahr, [http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=1605 I Smell the Cup] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080921224625/http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=1605 |date=21 September 2008 }}, ''Christian Century'', 12 March 1974, pp. 257–59.</ref> Exclusive use of unfermented grape juice is common in [[Baptist]] churches, the [[United Methodist Church]], [[Seventh-day Adventists]], [[Christian Churches/Churches of Christ]], [[Churches of Christ]], [[Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)]], some [[Lutheranism|Lutherans]], [[Assemblies of God]], [[Pentecostals]], [[Evangelicals]], the [[Christian Missionary Alliance]], and other American [[Nondenominational Christianity|independent]] Protestant churches. 

For members of the [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]], water is exclusively used in place of wine. From the church’s General Handbook, section [https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/general-handbook/18-priesthood-ordinances-and-blessings?lang=eng#title_number27 18.9], ”During this ordinance, they partake of the bread and water to remember the Savior’s sacrifice of His flesh and blood and to renew their sacred covenants…”