An important question to all Catholics.

[Joe Wordsworth]

Transubstantiation goes deeper than that.

It has to do with philosophic substance and accident, the conversion and what is under the bread and wine.

The gluten can still be there.

 

[3113]

The only way a gluten allergy would matter is if the bread didn't actually transubstantiate.

Soooo...a Catholic who eats the wafer and dies of gluten allergy didn't believe enough that it transubstantiated or the priest did something wrong and it didn't transubstantiate or...

I'm confused.

And I still don't understand why it has to be wheat in the first place.

See, this would work for me if it was just about magic. Then I'd understand. It has to be wheat because only wheat can transform into this other thing when the spell is uttered. That makes sense. But if it's the spell that matters and not the make-up of the wafer--i.e., if any wafer can be transformed because God wills it so, then why not make it of something else?

 

[SeaCat]

Okay, an update.

I brought in a lot of the information gleaned from you here and from other places last night. (Yes I was up quite late and I think my printer is mad at me.)

I talked with the priest in the hospital while handing over the information. She went in and talked with the patient, the upshot of which was the patients priest was called in. After a very long consultation between all parties, as well as numerouse phone calls they found a way to hold Communion for the patient. (Her first in several years from what she had told me.)

I, I can tell you, was very happy to see this as the patient received her Biopsy report. If there was any time she needed the comfort her religeon could bring her it was today.

My thanks to all here who helped not only me but my patient.

Cat

 

[English Lady]

Okay, an update.

I brought in a lot of the information gleaned from you here and from other places last night. (Yes I was up quite late and I think my printer is mad at me.)

I talked with the priest in the hospital while handing over the information. She went in and talked with the patient, the upshot of which was the patients priest was called in. After a very long consultation between all parties, as well as numerouse phone calls they found a way to hold Communion for the patient. (Her first in several years from what she had told me.)

I, I can tell you, was very happy to see this as the patient received her Biopsy report. If there was any time she needed the comfort her religeon could bring her it was today.

My thanks to all here who helped not only me but my patient.

Cat

Ahhhh Grand I'm glad she got to have communion

 

[Liar]

Exactly the point...

The only way a gluten allergy would matter is if the bread didn't actually transubstantiate.

So then the poor woman is actually, according to her own church's dictrine at least, having an allergic reaction to the body of Christ? That's gotta suck.

 

[Joe Wordsworth]

So then the poor woman is actually, according to her own church's dictrine at least, having an allergic reaction to the body of Christ? That's gotta suck.

Having an allergic reaction to the oversubstance. Not the body.

Council of Trent attack!

 

[babiesmiles]

Okay, an update.

I brought in a lot of the information gleaned from you here and from other places last night. (Yes I was up quite late and I think my printer is mad at me.)

I talked with the priest in the hospital while handing over the information. She went in and talked with the patient, the upshot of which was the patients priest was called in. After a very long consultation between all parties, as well as numerouse phone calls they found a way to hold Communion for the patient. (Her first in several years from what she had told me.)

I, I can tell you, was very happy to see this as the patient received her Biopsy report. If there was any time she needed the comfort her religeon could bring her it was today.

My thanks to all here who helped not only me but my patient.

Cat

Very glad she could have the confort she needed