Catholic Mass: The Body of Christ;the Blood of Christ, always offered
in that order;the bread, then the wine. I understand both together or
each seperate is Jesus present before us. Being a Euchristic minister
with special permissoin only I may offer the Blood of Christ in the
form of wine to some-one  unable to recieve the bread. Question:
Sunday Mass is it prohibited to offer The Blood of Christ first before
The Body of Christ as the congregation aproaches to recieve? Please
answer with resources that I may see clearly. Thank you.

Hello stanp-ga,

Since the Eucharist is one of the most essential elements of Catholic
beliefs there is a very large body of work dealing with the evolution
of the doctrine and the practice of distribution of communion. The
rules governing liturgical practice are called rubrics.

Under current Catholic Church law, the Eucharist is the presence of
Christ “entire and whole” under one form only since the body and blood
are never separated after transubstantiation. For this reason, if
someone cannot receive Communion under both species (i.e. “unable to
receive the bread”), receiving under one is permissible.

I hope this answers your question. In researching your question I ran
across some interesting Web sites that you might find helpful in your
further explorations of Catholic liturgical practice. Enjoy

czh


http://www.ewtn.com/
Eternal Word Television Network, Global Catholic Network
Eternal Word Television Network – Global Catholic Network
http://www.ewtn.com/faith/Teachings/euchb2.htm
The Holy Eucharist
“The present law allows quite a few occasions when the Holy Eucharist
may be received under both species. However, Christ is received whole
and entire under one form only, for He dies no more: body and blood
are never separated. (Cf. First Corinthians 11. 26-27, noting that in
v. 26, the word and shows that both species are needed to express the
death of the Lord, but for Holy Communion, only one species is needed.
Hence the word or is used in v. 27).”

http://www.silk.net/RelEd/eucharist.htm
Reviews of a long list of Web sites on the topic of the Eucharist

http://www.silk.net/RelEd/
Resources for Catholic Educators
This is an excellent portal site that includes a search capability.

http://www.monksofadoration.org/rubricsx.html
Rubrics
http://www.catholiccontacts.com/code/vbs/eDirectory/subCat/default.asp?Cat=118
Catholic Informational eDirectory – List of Rubric topics. Some of the
links don’t work but most are helpful.

http://www.ewtn.com/library/HOMELIBR/HISTOREA.TXT
The History of Eucharistic Adoration
Development of Doctrine in the Catholic Church


SEARCH STRATEGY
catholic rubrics communion

The Christian New Testament reports Jesus referring first to the bread
as body and then to the wine as blood.  I doubt any Christian religion
would reverse these because of the nature in which it is stated in the
Christian bible.  If Jesus had been reported as saying, "This is
blood, this is my body" then that's what would probably be practiced. 
However, this is just a guess.

"And taking bread, He gave thanks, and broke; and gave to them,
saying:  'This is My Body, which is given for you.  Do this for a
commemoration of Me.'  In like manner the chalice also, after He had
supped, saying:  'This is the chalice, the new testament in My Blood,
which shall be shed for you.'"
The Christian bible, New testament, Luke 22:19-20