You can get anything you want these days in worship, and the suppliers of church goods are ready to make it possible. Why not have sealed individual Holy Communion packages? After all, you wouldn't want to receive from the same one cup and one bread as other people, would you? Better for everything to be perfectly sterile.
My Capuchin pal Bro. Matthew commented that a Mass using these things might not be valid, since the priest is supposed to say the words of institution over the elements, not over their packaging. And that's besides any problems about the grape juice.
I bet some evangelistic TV outfits would love these Communion Cups: they could mail 'em out to supporters and conduct the next monthly communion service through the Satellite Ministry. Would you put your Communion Cup in front of the TV set, brothers and sisters, while I pray the Prayer of Faith? What the heck: we could do it over the Internet!
Victor noticed this other product from the same company. I'm cuckoo for Eucha-Puffs!
I just would like to say that the promise of the Internet did not and should not include the ability to buy Eucha-Puffs online.
Nifty. The prospects for no-muss-no-fuss eucharistic adoration are boundless. Though the image of the Celebration Cup being ripped open beneath the line "Do This in Rememberance (sp?) of Me" brings to mind the nourishment capsules in the Starship Enterprise automat.
Meantime, have you taken the Celebration Cup Challenge?
Flour and Vegetable shortening? Hmmm
"Jesus tastes better with Crisco!"
IANALiturgist, but I sincerely doubt that packaging would invalidate the Eucharist. It is illicit, of course.
IMHO from the reading I've done it takes a lot more than that to invalidate the Sacrament and I don't think it's helpful to entertain such speculation. Of course I think such an idea is dreadful, but I can think of at least one case where it might be helpful or necessary.
Yeah, what is the Church going to do for Catholic astronauts?