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To: johnb2004
Christ said of the pharasees to do exactly as they tell you to do, but do not be hypocrits as they are. They were the authority.

What is your point? I am being hypocritical, or the Vicar of Christ does not have the authority, but you do?

My point is that anyone impies that a child has to take a wheat host to receive their first communion is being hypocritical to Christs message. It would seem that a child with this 'life and death' problem should easily be allowed to have their first communion with the wine/juice alone or a substitute non-wheat bread. If not, the church is being 'very' hypocritical.

190 posted on 08/12/2004 1:46:05 PM PDT by AgThorn (Go go Bush!! But don't turn your back on America with "immigrant amnesty")
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To: AgThorn
My point is that anyone impies that a child has to take a wheat host to receive their first communion is being hypocritical to Christs message.

The Church certainly isn't saying that.

It would seem that a child with this 'life and death' problem should easily be allowed to have their first communion with the wine/juice alone...

This would be completely valid but the girl's mother is refusing this option.

...or a substitute non-wheat bread.

This would be illicit and is completely unnecessary for this situation since receiving the Eucharist under one species (the consecrated wine alone) would be a completely valid first communion.

If not, the church is being 'very' hypocritical.

The Church is being completely consistent in this instance.

245 posted on 08/12/2004 3:36:12 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus
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To: AgThorn

HoW? The Church is custodian of the faith. It has no authority to change the matter used to confect the Eucharist.


290 posted on 08/12/2004 4:57:34 PM PDT by johnb2004
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