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Offline AnthonyPadua

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Does non-acholic drinks break Eucharistic fast?
« on: Today at 02:20:24 AM »
I know water does not break the fast. 
I know alcohol does break the fast.

But does other beverages break the fast?

Say orange juice?
Energy drink like red bull/monster?
Electrolyte drinks?

I made myself an electrolyte (potassium, magnesium, calcium, sodium) + amino acid (protein but it's not whey) drink for lent, and have been drinking it throughout the day. Would this break the 3 hour fast before communion?
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Offline Boomerang

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Re: Does non-acholic drinks break Eucharistic fast?
« Reply #1 on: Today at 02:32:00 AM »
2. Priests and faithful, before Holy Mass or Holy Communion respectively, must abstain for three hours from solid foods and alcoholic liquids, for one hour from non- alcoholic liquids. Water does not break the fast.
Pope Pius XII, Sacram Communionem
https://www.papalencyclicals.net/pius12/p12fast.htm

Cardianl Ottaviani's commentary in the above link
The formula which confirms that water does not break the Eucharistic Fast (at first it was said to be aqua naturalis) leaves one to understand that it refers to water in general and in the common sense of the word even mineral water, carbonated or chemically purified water.

So if it's not water, it would fall under the non-acoholic liquids. Others may be able to better clarify.
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Offline Godefroy

Re: Does non-acholic drinks break Eucharistic fast?
« Reply #2 on: Today at 02:53:05 AM »
We drink coffee and tea but without milk. As milk is a food not a drink. 
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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: Does non-acholic drinks break Eucharistic fast?
« Reply #3 on: Today at 05:09:36 AM »
Quote from: AnthonyPadua on Today at 02:20:24 AM
I know water does not break the fast.
I know alcohol does break the fast.

But does other beverages break the fast?

Say orange juice?
Energy drink like red bull/monster?
Electrolyte drinks?

I made myself an electrolyte (potassium, magnesium, calcium, sodium) + amino acid (protein but it's not whey) drink for lent, and have been drinking it throughout the day. Would this break the 3 hour fast before communion?
I believe the principle is that we must be abstaining from anything that can provide even the slightest nourishment, out of honour for the Blessed Sacrament, and out of a spirit of mortification; since Our Lord is the only food we ought to long for during those hours of fasting, it is fitting that nothing nourishing for the body be taken. When deciding on questions such as these, it is helpful to return to the essence or spirit of the law; the reason why the law was instituted. 
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Offline SimpleMan

Re: Does non-acholic drinks break Eucharistic fast?
« Reply #4 on: Today at 07:43:30 AM »
Quote from: Godefroy on Today at 02:53:05 AM
We drink coffee and tea but without milk. As milk is a food not a drink.
There is this from Jone's Moral Theology:




Thus, milk would indeed be a drink for Eucharistic fasting purposes.
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