Anglican Church Stops The Use Of One Cup For 'Sharing Wine' During Communion

As per The Punch, the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, has halted the utilization of one cup for the sharing of wine during Holy Communion as one of the means to stop the spread of the feared coronavirus. 


The congregation has additionally suspended handshakes and embraces which are up to this point being utilized for the "trading of harmony" during the administrations. 

The congregation's General Secretary, Gershinen Dajur, uncovered this in a letter routed to all diocese supervisors and ministers of the congregation on Friday for the benefit of the congregation's Primate, Most-Revd Nicholas Okoh. 

The letter read, "His Grace, the Most Rev'd Nicholas D. Okoh has coordinated that specific advances be taken as aides against reaching and conveying the infection among our kin. 

"Leave the congregation alone urged to confide in God who is well ready to help us in a tough situation (Psalms46:1). This is an ideal opportunity to trust and obey God than to be on edge and frenzy (Phil 4:6-7). 

"Since this infection is transferable, the congregation is to devoutly required to be postponed the sharing of one goblet to all during Holy Communion. Other littler fellowship cups ought to be utilized for singular correspondence. 

"Likewise, handshakes and embraces during the trading of harmony ought to be subbed with non-infectious signals, for example, hand waving, common bowing, or making the indication of the cross, and so forth. 

"Leave everybody alone urged to watch great individual cleanliness through appropriate washing of hands with cleanser or hand sanitiser; covering of mouth with a hanky when wheezing or hacking and so on. 

Okoh additionally requested that parishioners read, study and execute significant wellbeing tips from the World Health Organization's site or that of the Nigeria Center for Disease Control on the best way to deal with oneself in a period like this. 

"These are brief aides given in great soul to support us while we explore our way through the test of the pandemic of COVID 19. 

"Kindly don't misrepresent, misjudge, exaggerate, go overboard or over spiritualise this issue of COVID 19. 

"From lightning, fire, and storm; from tremor, dry season, and flood; from starvation, plague, and epidemic. Great Lord, convey us," the letter included.

March 13, 2020