Just a type of bread until it is consecrated, so it is no big deal.
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Oh, my.
Until the host is consecrated it's just crackers. However, this should be an interesting thread, I'd guess.
When I first saw this, I thought "Weekly World News" for sure. But I see that it's been picked up by the AP, so look out.
"Perpetually Offended" bump?
C'est pécheur. Damnez-les tous !
Until it's blessed by the priest, it's just a cracker.
If it's blessed by a rabbi, it's just a kosher cracker.
Snooze. Unless it's consecrated, it's no more sacred than Saltines. Doesn't taste as good, either.
"The unleavened bread left over after the wafers were cut out was sold by monasteries to their parishioners."
Sacre bleu!! Are you going to organize against these "statists [and] anti-religion" group too? Wait a minute - the author is discussing monasteries!
YUM!
Tastes like chicken!
It's not consecrated. The celebrities that wear crosses and rosaries around their necks are in the same league. If it's not blessed and if it isn't consecrated, it's just stuff.
Now I've heard everything!
But, then, my brothers and I used to use Necco wafers for Communion whenever we played "priest"--way back when it was cool to be a priest.
Nothing to get bent out of shape about - now if they start eating them with deviled eggs, however...
Remember these folks in your prayers. If they can make it to the monastery to purchase communion wafers, they can also linger for a while in the chapel and attend Mass.
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We went there recently and were somewhat disgusted they have a LIGHT SHOW in the Montreal Notredame cathedral now for like 20$ a person.
It's a piece of bread.
The Catholic faith in Quebec was certainly pervasive, but it must not have been very deep for it to have disappeared so thoroughly. I am reminded of our many "Catholic" politicians here in the US who have made Abortion Rights their #1 cause. It seems to me they must have spent a lot of time in their youth building up the kind of resentment against God that they currently display.
It's stories like this that makes me shudder, that really clueless fundamentalist Christians are indistinguishable from the muslim kind.
It's not really a big deal. When I was an altar boy in the 60's, and had to do early Mass, I didn't have time for breakfast. The priest let us eat handfuls of unconsecrated wafers just to get something in our stomachs.
Sacre bleu!!! And next thing you know, those secular descendents of Frogs will be using (gasp!) water! The very same Eau that is used for Holy Water! Quelle debasement!
Nobody anywhere in the world should be allowed to use l'Eau since it is the same thing as Holy Water, except it isn't blessed... and it isn't used in church ceremonies... and... and... ummmmmmm, nevermind.
Geez, get a life! Or at least grow some thicker skin and quit being offended by all things. It's amazing to what lengths some people will go to be offended. It's just flour and water.
And fer yer info, I was an altar boy and I happen to like the taste of the wafers. If I was in Sous-Frogland, I'd buy a bag of 'em fer a snack. Doesn't mean I'm being sacriligious, any more than drinking H2O does.
Oh, and by the way, The Globe and Mail got it right with their headline "Wafers sold as snacks showing mass appeal" where you obviously didn't with yours: "Sacred Host Sold as Snacks in Quebec". You might try sticking with the verbatim headline when you post, instead of letting your bias creep in. We have enough of that kind of thing with the LSM now.