Communion-plate

[1] The two words are also written separately, as in the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church[2] and in Bishop Peter John Elliott's Liturgical Question Box.

[4] "Communion plate" (unhyphenated) is also used[5] for what is more commonly called a "communion tray",[6] holding bread in the form of a loaf or cubes or crackers or holding small cups of wine or grape juice, which are passed along the pews in some Protestant churches[7][8] since the final years of the nineteenth century.

[13] The Congregation continued to require the use everywhere of a white linen cloth or veil stretched below the mouths of communicants, as prescribed by the Roman Missal.

[19][20] The 2002 edition of the Roman Missal refers twice to the communion-plate: it retains the mention of it as an item to be placed on the credence table,[21] and speaks of its use in administering Communion from the chalice by intinction to the faithful, who are to hold it themselves.

[22] The 2004 Instruction Redemptionis sacramentum says: "The Communion-plate for the Communion of the faithful should be retained, so as to avoid the danger of the sacred host or some fragment of it falling.