Portable Communions Sets

One essential tool that a priest or any clergyman from any denomination needs when assigned in a remote area are portable communion sets.

There are plenty of places where these portable sets will come in handy.

Uses of Portable Communions Sets

For example, it can be used in a nursing home, hospital, or even in the battlefield. This makes it easy for people to participate in the communion even without attending the actual service.

There are four main elements that make up communion sets. There is the cruet, paten, chalice, and pyx. There are small as well as large communion sets that you can use.

To make it portable, it is accompanied with a carrying case. Some pieces are designed ornately while others are made from simple silver.

Each part of the piece has a purpose and function. For example, there is the cruet, which is a small bottle where the wine is stored. You also have the Paten, which is a small disk or plate that holds the communion wafers.

Then you have the pyx, this is a small, often round, container that holds the host inside. Finally, you have the chalice. This is also known as the communion cup, where the wine is poured onto and drank from.

All of these things make up the portable communion set.

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