Is the issue with the author's Orange County-based parish, or with Catholic parishes overall? The "validity" of gluten-free communion wafers is an interesting topic in and of itself.
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This is a non issue since he could receive under the other Sacred Species. He just wants to whine about life and how unfair it is.
Holy Cr@p! Have we gone totally nuts, or what?
Your pastor was absolutely right. Your desire to receive Communion under circumstances that make it impossible IS as blessed as actually receiving it.
I see that online you can order a package of 50 gluten-free hosts for $12.00, or 350 for $39.99 It seems a bit odd that this guy wouldn't spend $12 - $39 and supply all the celiacs in his parish for quite some time. I'd send it to him if I knew where to send it.
Maybe he just lacks verbal skills and doesn't know how to express himself gracefully, but this line ("... so we’re forced to receive our Lord in the form of wine...") really jumped out at me. Here's the reception of the most precious object in the whole Universe, the Blood of Our Lord, and he phrases it as if he's going to a vendor who doesn't have enough consumer options.
He needs to get his attitude right, I think.
“You can bet most of these are Celiac victims.”
I suppose you actually could do that. But only if you like making losing bets.
FReegards
Completely bogus issue. The Catholic church holds that EITHER species contains the body, blood, soul and divinity of Christ. Ironically, this was a key point to Catholic opposition to the “morningstar of the Protestant Reformation,” Jan Hus. Hus insisted that people must receive the bread AND wine for the sacrament to be valid.
What a weird way to start the day. How many people are we talking about here?
It does seem rather weird that the priest suggested the person buy his own hosts, our parish has low gluten hosts for people with this problem.
Hey, I want in on this entitlement bandwagon too! I have severe anxiety disorder that is so bad I’ve been officially ruled disabled, I want my own private Masses so I don’t have to deal with crowds. I also would like for the parish to pay for the meds I have to take in order to go to Mass!
Newsflash to the original whiner, we all have our cross to carry.
There’s a crumb of the Eucharist in the wine, so wine-only receivers are getting a little of the Host.
Makes me wonder if the reason Damien Thorne flipped out when arriving at the church was because he was allergic to the incense.
Whiner. I,I,I,I,I,ME,ME,ME,ME,ME.
My father was celiac, and he dealt with it without writing an article about it.
As noted by others, He can receive Communion under the species of the Precious Blood alone. And if he comes to Mass early enough, he can sit up front and be assured that they won’t run out of consecrated wine by the time he gets there. One drop of wine on the tongue, as is given to hospitalized patients who cannot take anything by mouth, is enough.
Or, he can buy low-gluten hosts in common with the apparent hordes of celiac Catholics in his parish and share the expense.
There are gluten free hosts.
Gluten free Jesus?
he could ask that when he recieves the host....a tiny piece be broken off and given to him....this often happens when the supply is running low near the end of communion.
“the consecrated wine runs out before Communicants do”
uh....Celiac’s sit closer to the front?
No problem because the full Body and Blood of Christ is also present in the Blessed Blood. A person need not even take the host.
What a whiner. I am sure most priests would be happy to accomodate this individual with the sacred blood first if he works it out with them beforehand. And yet again, Alex Murphy grasps at a strawman non issue to beat the Catholic Church rather than addressing issues in his own communion.
This guy is a whiner. His complaint is not that he can’t receive low-gluten hosts, but that he wants them to be “free of charge”. In other words, he wants someone else to pay for them.
See why I call him a whiner?
But such is legalism
Wait a minnit... Then consumption is not the efficacious part. And then 'real presence' is not found in the physical part, but in the act or the desire... Wouldn't that follow?