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The practice of passing the sacrament first to the presiding leader is a practice that started about 100 years ago in the Church. There are at least two reasons for which the presiding authority is passed the sacrament first:
There are, for example, stories of Church authorities who passed the sacrament to the congregation before partaking of it themselves.
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