The chalice bearer may do that and place the host on the tongue of the communicant.
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One way is for the communicant to drink directly from the chalice of consecrated wine.
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Indeed, to this day, she is still a regular communicant there, excommunication order or not.
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It meant that another 8-year-old first communicant had feigned an understanding of transubstantiation.
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All we have to go on, all day, every day, is the accident-prone linguistic competence of each communicant.
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He must be a solicitor learned in ecclesiastical law, and be a communicant of the Church of England.
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He was a communicant of Our Lady of Victory Church.
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Communicant, which got 6,000 applications for 1,500 jobs, may yet succeed simply because no one can afford to let it fail.
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He also was a devout Catholic, a daily communicant who carried a well-worn rosary and made no secret of his abiding faith.
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A person entitled to receive Communion
The Eucharist, also called Holy Communion, Sacrament of the Table, the Blessed Sacrament, or The Lord's Supper, and other names, is a Christian sacrament or ordinance, generally considered to be a re-enactment of the Last Supper, the final meal that Jesus Christ shared with his disciples before ...
(Communicants) the members of a local church; those who do or who are eligible to receive communion; loosely identified with the roll of the local church: "St. Mark's has 300 communicants [=official members]. ...
Person receiving communion in a religious ceremony or service.