The athame represents the magical element of fire, associated with the Sun and the Horned God ; while the chalice represents the magical element of water, associated with the Moon and the Goddess.

According to the church, the " cross represents Christ as the resurrected and living Lord, the Bible is the sourcebook of all Christian truth, open for all to explore, while the chalice holds special significance for Brethren: not only is it a symbol of the Lord's Supper, but it is also a reminder of the pre-Reformation insistence of John Hus and the early Brethren upon receiving wine as well as bread in Holy Communion.

The deacon's liturgical ministry includes various parts of the Mass proper to the deacon, including being an ordinary minister of Holy Communion and the proper minister of the chalice when Holy Communion is administered under both kinds.

Before the reform of Pope Pius XII, only the priest received Communion in the framework of what was called the " Mass of the Presanctified ", which included the usual Offertory prayers, with the placing of wine in the chalice, but which omitted the Canon of the Mass.

This is accomplished by placing the particles of the consecrated Lamb ( bread ) into the chalice, and distributing Communion to the faithful with a spoon.

When a priest must take Holy Communion to the sick or homebound, if he has not prepared himself to receive the Holy Mysteries, he may ablute the chalice by pouring water into it and asking the one to whom he brought the Sacrament ( or a Baptized child who because of their youth is not obliged to prepare for Communion ) to consume the ablution.

Before receiving Communion from the chalice, the priest makes the sign of the cross over himself, saying ( in Latin ): May the Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ keep my soul for eternal life.

( Before the reform of Pope Pius XII, only the priest received Communion in the framework of what was called the " Mass of the Presanctified ", which included the usual Offertory prayers, with the placing of wine in the chalice, but which omitted the Canon of the Mass.

In Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, Lutheranism and some other Christian denominations, a chalice is a standing cup used to hold sacramental wine during the Eucharist ( also called the Lord's Supper or Holy Communion ).

To accomplish this, a portion of the Lamb ( Host ) is placed in the chalice, and then the faithful receive Communion on a spoon.

In the Russian Orthodox Church, the faithful will often kiss the " foot " ( base ) of the chalice after receiving Holy Communion.

Even for the laity, the use of a tube is one of the four ways envisaged in the 1970 revision of the Roman Missal for receiving Communion from the chalice, cf.

They might carry the cross, candles or liturgical fans in processions and entrances ; maintain the censer, ensuring it has enough live charcoal, loading it with incense and handing it to the priest or deacon when required ; preparing the hot water ( zeon ) in time for it to be added to the chalice at the Divine Liturgy ; prepare the antidoron for the people to receive after Holy Communion ; and any other necessary tasks so that the celebrant need not be distracted during the service.

He presented the church with a Communion chalice.

After the Communion of the faithful, the deacon brushes these particles into the chalice, saying, " Wash away, O Lord, the sins of all those here commemorated, by Thy Precious Blood, through the prayers of all thy saints.

From baptism young infants and children are carried to the chalice to receive Holy Communion.

The antimins remains unfolded until after all have received Holy Communion and the chalice and diskos are taken back to the Prothesis ( Table of Oblation ).

: Three genuflections are made by the priest celebrant: namely, after the showing of the host, after the showing of the chalice, and before Communion.

If more than one chalice is used during the administration of Communion, the flagon ( or an additional cruet filled with wine and water ) is placed on the altar at the Offertory, and other chalices are brought to the altar after the Breaking of the Bread.

As with the flaming chalice there is no one orthodox interpretation of the Flower Communion.

Homer immediately commences watching TV in his underwear, drinking beer out of a Communion chalice, and using a crucifix as an air-guitar when he sings the KISS song I Was Made For Lovin ' You.

Symbols incorporated in the labyrinth include a large chalice and a central wafer-a reference to Holy Communion.

There will be a small bottle to hold ordinary wine ( not consecrated ) which is used to soften the particle before it is consumed, a small pair of tweezers with which the priest removes a particle of the Mysteries from the box to place it in the chalice without touching it, and finally a small communion spoon with which to administer Holy Communion.

The Fountain from On Stranger Tides requires two people to drink from silver chalices found on the ship of Ponce de Leon ; whoever drinks from the chalice filled with a mermaid's tears will take the remaining and lived years of the other drinker's life and add it to their own, while the other person instantly dies.

For the past two centuries, seven sorcerers have gathered and engage in a battle royale known as the Holy Grail War, each gambling his or her own life to obtain the Holy Grail, a legendary chalice capable of granting wishes.

While in Jerusalem he made a gift of a gold chalice to the church of the Holy Sepulchre.

His second letter was accompanied by a chalice of gold surrounded with precious stones, a patina of gold, a chalice of silver, and two veils of silk, which he presented to the Roman church.

Her ashes rest in a silver chalice on the right side of the chancel of the actors ' church, St Paul's, Covent Garden, London, where a memorial tablet was unveiled by Sir John Martin-Harvey.

In the early and medieval church, when a deacon was ordained, he would be handed a chalice during the service as a sign of his ministry.

In the sixth and seventh centuries pilgrims to Jerusalem were led to believe that the actual chalice was still venerated in the church of the Holy Sepulchre, having within it the sponge which was presented to Our Saviour on Calvary.

The Unity of the Brethren church has adopted a church emblem having an open Bible, with a cross behind in the center, and a chalice in front to the left.

From the main entrance to the church, there is a volcanic stone walkway, divided by an atrium cross, which has a heart, a chalice and a depiction of the Host in low relief.

The church contains a rood screen and an unusual chalice shaped font, believed to be over 600 years old.

In the sixth and seventh centuries pilgrims to Jerusalem were led to believe that the actual chalice was still venerated in the church of the Holy Sepulchre, having within it the sponge which was presented to Our Saviour on Calvary.

When a church council condemned the practice of priests who were giving the chalice to their congregants, Hus refused to support the condemnation.

She reputedly donated a silver chalice to the church in 1570.

The main monument in Monteleone is the 14th century church of San Francesco, with a cloister now serving as a lapidary museum, a Gothic door and a fresco of Christ crucified in the full robes of a bishop, with a loaf of bread under one foot and a chalice of wine under the other.

This stone, formerly in the floor of the medieval church, has a crudely incised figure of a priest holding a chalice.

Within the church is a 1776 chalice by John Swift with an 1805 paten by Samuel and George Whitworth.

The parish church houses valuable Gothic chalice in which the foot is engraved with the Latin inscription which testifies that he built the Church of SS.

Centaurs preserved a Dionysian connection in the 12th century Romanesque carved capitals of Mozac Abbey in the Auvergne, where other capitals depict harvesters, boys riding goats ( a further Dionysiac theme ) and griffins guarding the chalice that held the wine.

The logo of the Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ) is a red chalice with a white St. Andrew's Cross.

With a red felt-tip pen, Osborn began to scrawl a Saint Andrew's cross circumscribed inside a chalice on his placemat.

Tilsley responded with two or three sketches, from which was selected the now-familiar red chalice.

Congregations and ministries of the Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ) are free to use the chalice in publications, web sites and other media.

Because most congregations call themselves " Christian Churches ," the chalice has become a simple way to identify Disciples of Christ Churches through signage, letterhead, and other forms of publicity.

Therefore, although the priest ( or minister ) says, " The body of Christ ", when administering the host, and, " The blood of Christ ", when presenting the chalice, the communicant who receives either one receives Christ, whole and entire.

The ordination of a priest occurs before the Anaphora ( Eucharistic Prayer ) in order that he may on the same day take part in the celebration of the Eucharist: During the Great Entrance, the candidate for ordination carries the Aër ( chalice veil ) over his head ( rather than on his shoulder, as a deacon otherwise carries it then ) as a symbol of giving up his diaconate, and comes last in the procession and stands at the end of the pair of lines of the priests.

The chalice of wine became the central identifying symbol of the Hussite movement.

The views of the moderate Hussites were widely represented at the university and among the citizens of Prague ; they were therefore called the Prague Party, but also Calixtines ( Latin calix chalice ) or Utraquists ( Latin utraque both ), because they emphasized the second article of Prague, and the chalice became their emblem.

In his verse romance Joseph d ’ Arimathie, composed between 1191 and 1202, Robert tells the story of Joseph of Arimathea acquiring the chalice of the Last Supper to collect Christ ’ s blood upon his removal from the cross.

According to legend, the monastery of San Juan de la Peña, located at the south-west of Jaca, in the province of Huesca, Spain, protected the chalice of the Last Supper from the Islamic invaders of the Iberian Peninsula.

It was the official papal chalice for many popes, and has been used by many others, most recently by Pope Benedict XVI, on July 9, 2006.

The emerald chalice at Genoa, which was obtained during the Crusades at Caesarea Maritima at great cost, has been less championed as the Holy Grail since an accident on the road, while it was being returned from Paris after the fall of Napoleon, revealed that the emerald was green glass.

The chalice as symbolic of St John, which, according to some authorities, was not adopted until the 13th century, is sometimes interpreted with reference to the Last Supper.

A gold chalice from the Treasure of Gourdon.

To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice is to put it to our own lips as well.

The plate is then used to drop the ballot into the chalice, making it difficult for electors to insert multiple ballots.

He criticizes the Mass of Paul VI for what he calls its " Protestantizations ", such as referring to the service as a " supper " with a " table " and " cup " instead of a " sacrifice " with an " altar " and " chalice ", making the congregation, in his view, the center of worship instead of God, and so forth.

The observation about the use of the word " cup ", rather than " chalice ", concerned only the English translation in use from 1973 to 2011, which employed both terms.

To touch the smallest particle of the host or the smallest droplet from the chalice is to touch Jesus Christ himself, as when one person touches another on the back of the hand with only a fingertip and in so doing touches not merely a few skin cells but touches the whole person: " Christ is present whole and entire in each of the species and whole and entire in each of their parts, in such a way that the breaking of the bread does not divide Christ.