Posted on 03/11/2019 6:26:20 PM PDT by marshmallow
Vatican City, Mar 8, 2019 / 12:30 pm (CNA).- Vatican officials have said there are no plans to discuss changing the matter of the Eucharist during an upcoming synod for the pan-Amazonian region of South America.
The possibility of changing the kind of bread allowed to be used in the celebration of the Eucharist does “not appear in the Preparatory Document for the Special Assembly next October and therefore is not a subject of the next Synod,” Bishop Fabio Fabene, Undersecretary of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops, told CNA Friday.
The clarification comes after a Brazilian Jesuit theologian said last month that the October synod on the Amazon could consider the substitution of wheat bread in the eucharistic species with a host made from yuca – a root plant common in the Amazon.
The exclusive use of bread made from wheat and wine for celebrating Mass is explicitly regulated by the Church, with any other material defined as invalid matter for the sacrament.
Fr. Francisco Taborda, SJ, said Feb. 28 that a fundamental shift in the matter of the Eucharist was a likely topic to be addressed during the special session of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazonian region in October.
Speaking to Crux, Taborda suggested that because of the humidity in the Amazon at different times of the year, wheat bread sometimes becomes overly moist – something he suggested could justify a radical departure in sacramental teaching and disciple.
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You can’t do that. What if somebody takes the host, and then says “Yucca” ?
Try the veal, I’ll be here all week.
Guess it would take some kind of miracle to transform a yucca host...
Lol
>> ... if it’s not bread, it’s not the Eucharist ...
So maybe they oughta import grain from Israel to make it?
The most meaningful Eucharist I ever saw conducted was done in a hospital waiting room - using crackers and carbonated grape juice from a vending machine.
Try the veal. It's the best in the city
I went to a church that used Mini Shredded Wheat and grape juice.
If yucca can somehow be shown to be more “environmentally sensitive and sustainable” than raising wheat, it will be back on the table. Bank on it.
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