Do preists vow no alcohol?

[strateguy632]

[OtterMan68]

Catholic, Anglican, Orthodox, and Lutheran priests do not. Can't speak for any other religions or denominations

[Drewtate]

Drink wine every week.

[Fireguy17]

I don't think so, don't they drink some of the sacramental wine?

[strateguy632]

good point, but some use grape juice no alcohol.

[jamesgoldman]

They invented the champagne cork as well as vodka, Benedictine, Buckfast tonic wine, mead, chartreuse and assorted Trappist beers

[Dargil]

In the traditional mass, they deliver the Eucharist, which includes ecclesiastical wines containing alcohol, so no. Besides, priests are not afraid of Brandy, either.

[hahahmm]

My understanding is that priests & brothers make individual vows. They don't all have the same vows. Some drink like fish. You would not believe some of the stuff I saw them doing in public when I was a kid.

[sean1234]

They should vow NO alcohol, for God talked negativily about it, God condemns it.

Is grapejuice not wine?

77 verses in the bible, don't know which one to choose.

[strateguy632]

if you refer to nazirite in book numbers the word and therefore context is the same hebrew word as "intoxicated" like story of "Noah after flood".
i can prove opposite too. Jesus "turned water into WINE" showed actively he permitted wine tasting. just don't be a "drunkard" first cor. 6.

[sean1234]

Then what was grapejuice back then? Why would anyone want to drink old outdated grapejuice that makes you intoxicated?

[sean1234]

People did, but still. What comes 1st I'd grapejuice.

[sean1234]

Is****

[AviatorTom]

Nit the priests I've known. They drink a lot.

[RebelinSteel]

Who were the masters of brewing beers, spirits, mead? Therein lies your answer.

[strateguy632]

moonshiners?

[RebelinSteel]

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[strateguy632]

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[Likes2drive]

Maybe some but they are allowed to drink as far as I know

[exitseven]

No. I have known priests that were pretty big boozers.

[BCRanger10]

No, they do not.

[Drumlin2001]

They drink most days. A little goblet of wine

[CozyCoffin]

What about drinking the blood of christ?

[strateguy632]

to cozy, see my reply to fire

[AngryCarl]

What about Communion Wine?

[BCRanger10]

After the consecration, it is no longer wine, but the Blood of Christ.

[AngryCarl]

@BCRanger10 Sounds like a good excuse. Does that work for whiskey by any chance?

[BCRanger10]

Nope. It has to be a very specific kind of wine, or else the Mass would be rendered invalid. There was a huge deal of that that was discovered in my diocese last year.

[sean1234]

Mithras Mystery
Another prominent pagan religion that was at the height of its popularity at around the same time as Jesus was the cult of Mithras. Mithras actually shares many attributes with Jesus, including a last supper just before Mithras ascended to heaven. Initiates of the Mithras cult partook of a sacred meal in honor of Mithras that included both bread and wine, which were believed to be the flesh and blood of a great bull that was slain by Mithras.

[BCRanger10]

@sean1234 Was John 6 a Mithras mystery?

[sean1234]

John 6? Why you say that?

[BCRanger10]

@sean1234 Because John 6.55 quotes Jesus saying "my flesh is food indeed and my blood is drink indeed".

[sean1234]

One is simply a false religion of satan that copies what God is trying to do, the other is of Jesus. God had his plans long ago and Satan always knew what those plans were.

[BCRanger10]

@sean1234 False religion? That's a direct copy and paste of Jesus' own words in the Bible.

[sean1234]

I meant of the mithras Babylonia religion.

[sean1234]

Babylonian*

[BCRanger10]

@sean1234 I know that. But you've at least implied that the Catholic Faith lifted this belief from Babylonian mythology, yes? I, however, have restated the words from Jesus Himself, as quoted in John's Gospel. So either Jesus believed the Mithras myth, or what Jesus said - and what Catholics believe - is true.

[sean1234]

There's taking things literally and taking things symbolically.

Flesh and blood is obviously taken in a symbolic sense for learning the word of God and taking it to heart. Just as physical food nourishes our bodies, partaking of Jesus—believing in Him—nourishes our souls.

[BCRanger10]

@sean1234 So when Jesus says "my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink", He's speaking... symbolically? After having already said it once before a few lines earlier, causing His listeners to essentially ask "did He really just say that"?

[sean1234]

King James Version John 9:39-41 And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind. And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also? Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.

[BCRanger10]

@sean1234 What's the relevance of this?

[sean1234]

It's funny how the Pharisees thought they knew everything, had closed minds and couldn't even understand what Jesus was saying.

They took it literally.

One has to know when to take things literally and take it symbolically. Even back in the day when the KJV was written, the people back then had a better understanding of old English than the people of today who misinterpret it from lack of understanding.

King James Version Luke 8:8-10 And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be? And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.

[Jennz6]

Some do and others don’t

[jimmy2]

They have too drink it after

[riverrat3]

I doubt it

[jahaims]

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