Christian views on alcohol Last Supper were non-alcoholic grape juice; however, the Greek word "oinos", used in the account of the wedding feast in Cana, is also used to describe alcohol in Ephesians 5:18. Christian views on alcohol Christian views on alcohol are varied. Throughout the first 1,800 years of Church history, Christians generally consumed alcoholic beverages as a common part of everyday life and used "the fruit of the vine" in their central rite—the Eucharist or Lord's Supper. They held that both the Bible and Christian tradition taught that alcohol is a gift from God that makes life more joyous, but that over-indulgence
Religious of Christian Education from the time of their founding had already been closed in 1977. Religious of Christian Education The Religious of Christian Education is a Roman Catholic religious institute of religious sisters founded for the education of girls in post-Revolutionary France which now operates schools internationally. The Sisters were established by the Abbé Louis Lafosse (1772–1839) and four young women, led by Mother Marie-Anne Dutertre, on 21 November 1817 in Échauffour, Normandy. Lafosse's vision, born from the destruction of the period of the French Revolution, was to provide the girls of the region a solid education, which was both humane and Christian.