altar wine
Eucharistic beverage consecrated
Altar wine is wine used in Christian religious ceremonies, particularly the Eucharist or communion.
Catholic canon law requires it to be made from grapes and unadulterated, though low-alcohol versions exist.
During Prohibition in the United States, altar wine was one of the few legal uses of wine, leading to a surge in "sacramental" wine production.
- communionProfound shared closeness
- grape juicePressed vineyard fruit liquid
- massQuantity of matter
- chaliceOrnate ritual drinking vessel
- sacred vesselConsecrated container for worship
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- sacred substancesholy water, holy oil, communion wafer, chrism, frankincense
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