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Communion

AnnieMarie

By AnnieMarie
in Coping with Celiac Disease

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AnnieMarie Apprentice
AnnieMarie
Posted

Hello Everyone,

Don't know if anyone has ever posted this one before. I have a step-daughter signing -up for confirmation. During this time I took advantage of the priest time to ask him to look up the ingredients in the communion, sure enough it contains wheat.

Now I now their are a lot of different religions, so I hope that I am not offending anyone.

Just thought maybe this one some people were not considering.

Wheat truly is in almost everything!!!!

Annie

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tarnalberry Community Regular
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There's an order of nuns who make a low-gluten host that the Catholic church recognizes as acceptable for the sacrament. It is NOT no gluten, and there is some controversy as to whether or not people want to take it. Some priests work out alternatives with their parishoners to just take the wine, some take the low-gluten host, some take the regular host and leave it in God's hands, and some forgo communion all together. Some priests (locally) have accepted rice based alternatives, but they are not approved by the organization, and the Vatican would say they don't "count". (This came up last year in the news with a girl whose confirmation was "revoked" because she had used a rice based host. The official vatican stance is that, due to the description in the bible, hosts much have some wheat in them, and that the hosts undergo transubstantiation in any case, and are no longer wheat after that process so would not harm a celiac.)

Non-catholic churches appear to be more accomodating of non-wheat based alterantives.

Guest BellyTimber
Guest BellyTimber
Posted

Annie,

Are you asking for advice or has it already been decided how your step-daughter will participate?

Regards,

Canadian Karen Community Regular
Canadian Karen
Posted

If you do a search on this site with the search word "communion", you will notice that there are a few threads that are quite long and quite "spirited" regarding this subject!! LOL!

Hugs.

Karen

Guest BellyTimber
Guest BellyTimber
Posted

The information in those threads is of varying degrees of accuracy.

Let us know Annie if you need us to be of any help about this, those of us that are in the know, also you could PM me.

Carriefaith Enthusiast
Carriefaith
Posted

Personally, I don't take the "bread" and just drink the "juice". However, my church is looking into buying gluten free communion bread, so people in the church with celiac disease can take the bread too.

sillyken Enthusiast
sillyken
Posted

I go to a United Methodist Church in Philadelphia and when it is communion time I bring a slice of my own bread and my pastor serves me that. He is very respectful when he takes it cupping his hand with great reverence. It means alot to me. I didn't take communion for the first year after being diagnosed because I was afraid of offending someone if I ask for special treatment. I understand the Catholic Churchs' stand on this but I do not believe God would want us to take something into ourselves that would harm us. We should ALL be able to partake in this Holy sacriment.

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