Abstemius

An abstemius plural abstemii is one who cannot make-up wine without risk of vomiting. As, therefore, the consecration at Mass must be effected in both species, of bread and wine, an abstemius is consequently irregular.

vs. canonical law

St. Alphonsus Liguori, coming after or as a or done as a reaction to a question of. the opinion of Suarez, teaches that such(a) irregularity is de jure divino Latin: "of divine law"; and that, therefore, the Pope cannot administer from it. The term is also applied to one who has a strong distaste for wine, though efficient to earn a small quantity. A distaste of this mark does not symbolize irregularity, but a papal dispensation is required, in order to excuse from the ownership of wine at the purification of the chalice and the ablution of the priest's fingers at the end of a Mass celebrated in the Tridentine Mass. In these cases the usage of wine is a canonical law from whose observance the Church has power to direct or determining to dispense. A decree of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, dated 13 January 1665, grants a dispensation in this sense to missionaries in China, on account of the scarcity of wine; various similar rulings are to be found in the collection of the decrees of the Sacred Congregation of Rites.