Posted on 11/06/2022 3:50:20 PM PST by Twotone
The economic crisis in Cuba continues to impact the population, this time affecting Catholics specifically because the lack of wheat flour has meant that no more Communion hosts can be made.
The St. Teresa Discalced Carmelite Monastery in Havana announced the news Wednesday.
“We inform all the dioceses that there are no longer hosts for sale. We have been working with the little flour that was left and what was in reserve has already run out,” the nuns reported in a statement shared by the Catholic publication Vida Cristiana.
“We hope and trust in the Lord that we can resume work soon, and once we have enough to distribute to all the dioceses, we will notify you,” they added.
The Catholic Church stipulates in the Redemptionis Sacramentum instruction that the host can only be made with wheat.
“It follows therefore that bread made from another substance, even if it is grain, or if it is mixed with another substance different from wheat to such an extent that it would not commonly be considered wheat bread, does not constitute valid matter for confecting the Sacrifice and the Eucharistic Sacrament,” the instruction states.
In addition, the instruction says: “It is a grave abuse to introduce other substances, such as fruit or sugar or honey, into the bread for confecting the Eucharist.”
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicnewsagency.com ...
Reminds me of Graham Greene’s “The Power and the Glory”
Funny I can’t eat wheat gluten so last Sunday I passed my communion wafer to my husband. I also can’t drink red wine. Migraine, etc. Some churches offer fruit juice or white wine...
I’ll bet the Host has been made from any of a number of different raw materials over the centuries.
Cuber has no sugar and no cane fibers?
Isn’t communism wonderful?
When liberals are in charge, there isn’t enough flour to make tiny crackers .
“I’ll bet the Host has been made from any of a number of different raw materials over the centuries.”
That’s a very I nteresting and probably accurate thought. God is not limited to wheat for His body.
Make them with solar!
Wind?
This, boys and girls of all ages, is why Marxism is a horrible and evil philosophy.
Liberals= commies: I guess they’re saying Castro can’t put a call in to Pootin to have a shipload of white flour delivered? Something about the flour coming from Ukraine, maybe? If the Catholics need it why isn’t the Popester speaking up?
So barley, oats, rice, corn, millet, spelt, amaranth, quinoa, rye and sorghum are right out! Maybe spelt (Triticum spelta) would be OK.
Transubstantiation only works with wheat?
Found the answer. The communal wafer must be made with wheat flour...
https://www.holyart.com/blog/religious-items/need-know-hosts-particles/
"...Isn’t communism wonderful? ..."
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NO.
It Isn't.
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(Lest there be any misunderstanding...)
/sarc
“Dr.” Jill will send them tacos.
“If the Catholics need it why isn’t the Popester speaking up?”
Cuz our current Popester side with the WEF.
Ain’t my Pope. Miss JPII.
Nope
Correct, wheat host only.
Diorgys Hernandez, general director of the food processing ministry, said when he announced the wheat shortage that “the financial costs involved in wheat shipments to the country” were partly to blame.
Protestants are probably switching to tostones.
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