Hi,

I was thinking about communion the other day and just randomly started wondering about the use of grape juice instead of wine. Does anyone know approximately when grape juice began to be widely substituted for wine. I really have no idea, but my feeling is it probably has been in the last few hundred years. The reason I suspect this is that until the Reformation and the split between the RCC and the protestant churches, the church probably almost universally followed the catholic practice of using wine. Of course, I could be totally wrong. Any ideas?

John