Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

And welcome back to another episode of the Council of Trend Podcast.

I am your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

I do want to let you guys know I got a listener email a while ago and it offered a correction

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So this one came through via an email, it was an open mail bag a while ago on the sacrament.

It wasn't the sacraments.

It was talking about the pandemic and the idea that because the sacred blood is the blood

of Christ, that if you drink it in the chalice, you cannot become sick from COVID-19.

And as I showed in that episode, yes, upon consecration, the wine becomes the blood of

Jesus Christ, but it still retains the form of wine.

So as since it retains that form, that means if you drink too much of it, you can become

inebriated.

So if someone drinks it before you on the chalice, they could deposit a germ or a pathogen

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