1y ago

Is the body of Christ gluten free? Asking for a friend.

Could Jesus make a Celiac so allergic he couldn't receive Him?

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In the Catholic Church you always have the option to receive communion in the form of wine so there is a fully gluten free option.
- What if you don't drink?
  
  Then you drink mustum instead. (I don't know the English name, only the Latin one.)
  Mustum is basically a young wine; it's allowed to start fermentation, but then the fermentation is quickly stopped, before it develops any meaningful amount of alcohol.
  
  Then you can't be Catholic.
- Speaking as someone who grew up in an Irish Catholic house it still blows my mind a huge building full of people went up and drank out of the same cup.
  Did this all change after covid?
  
  Often churches which have the “common cup” use silver or gold chalices, which naturally have anti-microbial properties. They will also often turn the chalice after each user, and then wipe it with a cloth (sometimes soaked in strong alcohol) to cleanse it further.
  For those who find this gross, many churches also offer individual cups.
  There is a lot of variation here, some churches only do individual cups, some only do common cup.
Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty."
That doesn't sound like a gluten-free loaf.
My mom us a retired Episcopalian priest. She said there are gluten-free wafers you can get if someone in the congregation needs them. She also said that it doesn't have to be a wafer, one of her priest buddies once consecrated a pancake to make a point that it doesn't matter what's being consecrated, it's all God's creation.
Note: I am not religious and do not hold these beliefs myself
- Mom's priest buddy is my spirit animal. That's awesome.
Which part of His body did you get? The spleen? A bit of intestine? One of the toes?
You can buy rice crackers at the supermarket now. No need to go to church anymore.
Celiac technically isn’t an allergy, but yes. Some denominations will give you a gluten free communion wafer. Catholicism, however, requires one that contains wheat although it’s possible to get a very low gluten option that probably won’t trigger a reaction.
- Seems like a big risk if they fuck it up.

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