To further express my opinions, until the church finds a way to stop using the common cup, our sensible informed educated youth will have some difficulty with this archaic practise. They are being taught in school and at home to be careful about drinking after others and to watch when drinking from fountains. What is being practised in our age is not only unsanitary but something strange to see. I listen carefully to our youth although I am a senior citizen and I think the liturgy should also be changed for the alter. Perhaps instead of using words e.g. drinking blood and eating flesh words could be changed to more beautiful and profound thoughts such as “let us drink the wine with Him today and eat bread with Him who has made our lives complete“. What beautiful changes we could make to our church if we would only follow our youth instead of being caught up with our own selfish ideas.
the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
I Corinthians 11:23-27