Posted on 04/09/2015 6:23:58 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
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Severely gluten intolerant, Celiac Catholics like myself cant take the whole wheat hosts that are so prevalent in todays Catholic churches, so were forced to receive our Lord in the form of wine. Problem is, with so many faithful receiving Holy Communion during Holy Week services, the consecrated wine runs out before Communicants do. During packed Holy Thursday and Easter Masses, as many as a third of the congregation may miss out on lifting the chalice. You can bet most of these are Celiac victims. That happened to me this past Thursday. Ive received Holy Communion at over 57 consecutive Holy Thursday services in my lifetime. This past Thursday I wasn't able.
When I informed my pastor of my dilemma, he tried to convince me I still received a spiritual Communion. Then he proceeded to explain how I could go about buying my own hosts from his supplier and go about providing them for consecration.
Somehow that doesnt seem fair.
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I mentioned my dilemma to one of my cancer treatment buddies in upstate Wisconsin. (Radiation kick started Celiac for me. He happens to be Lutheran.) His pastor has gluten free hosts available for all the congregation free of charge.
Arent we supposed to be more progressive here in California?
Is the Catholic Church a much bigger consumer of hosts?
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Wouldnt it be easier for all parishes just to distribute gluten free hosts?
It shouldnt hurt to go to Holy Communion.
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He explained that often, at a crowded Mass the wine runs out long before the hoste. He could, however, arrange to sit near where the procession for communion starts so that he is nearer the chalice before it runs out.
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.
But when the gluten - free hosts are mixed in with those containing wheat— they pick up fragments of the wheat.
Another reason every person should receive on the tongue and not in the hand.
Many people brush crumbs of Jesus onto the floor without realizing it when they receive in the hand.
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.
I think they are low gluten hosts. Totally gluten free would not be valid matter, as I understand it.
At my parish the gluten-free hosts are kept on a separate paten, and the celiac sufferers are instructed to get into that Communion line.
How many people are we talking about?
Not sure, though, whether it is theoretically possible to have a wheat variety which is real wheat, but with no gluten. I suppose you'd have to refer to a distinctive, identifiable wheat genome, which wouldn't even have been an issue for most of the Church's history.
In my parish, very few. The only ones I “know” of are one adult, and one child.
ROTFL
It's correctly called "the Precious Blood," not "wine," and both the Host and the Precious Blood are "the Eucharist".
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
How Protestant of you :)
My bad. I know that. I was being sloppy.
St Thomas Aquinas said that God is not bound by the sacraments in conferring grace; they're just the ordinary means he's given to us. Was he a Protestant, too?
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