Administering A Sacrament While Drunk

[Thomist-in-Training]

In the older rules of fasting (not the oldest, where you fasted from midnight), there was a difference between how many hours you could drink alcoholic and nonalcoholic drinks before Mass.

[quote]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.[/quote]

Sacram Communionem
Apostolic Constitution of Pope Pius XII on Laws of Fasting and the Evening Mass
January 6, 1953