If after the Consecration or as he receives Communion, the Priest notices that not wine but only water was poured into the chalice, he pours the water into some container, pours wine with water into the chalice and consecrates it, saying the part of narrative relating to the Consecration of the chalice, without being obliged to consecrate the bread again.ģ25. Diligent care should be taken to ensure that the bread and wine intended for the Eucharist are kept in a perfect state of conservation: that is, that the wine does not turn to vinegar nor the bread spoil or become too hard to be broken easily.ģ24. Lk 22:18), natural, and unadulterated, that is, without admixture of extraneous substances.ģ23. The wine for the celebration of the Eucharist must be from the fruit of the vine (cf. Moreover, the gesture of the fraction or breaking of bread, which was quite simply the term by which the Eucharist was known in apostolic times, will bring out more clearly the force and importance of the sign of the unity of all in the one bread, and of the sign of charity by the fact that the one bread is distributed among the brothers and sisters.ģ22.
However, small hosts are not at all excluded when the large number of those receiving Holy Communion or other pastoral reasons call for them. Therefore, it is desirable that the Eucharistic Bread, even though unleavened and made in the traditional form, be fashioned in such a way that the Priest at Mass with the people is truly able to break it into parts and distribute these to at least some of the faithful.
By reason of the sign, it is required that the material for the Eucharistic Celebration truly have the appearance of food. The bread for celebrating the Eucharist must be made only from wheat, must be recently made, and, according to the ancient tradition of the Latin Church, must be unleavened.ģ21.
Following the example of Christ, the Church has always used bread and wine with water to celebrate the Lord’s Supper.ģ20. The Bread and Wine for Celebrating the Eucharistģ19.
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