Our Priest Is Gluten Free. How Does That Work?

[Allykatzlive]

I would be leary like you.

[FutureSister2009]

We just started with gluten free hosts here at school. There's only one girl I know of that has to have them though

[Basilisa Marie]

We just started with gluten free hosts here at school. There's only one girl I know of that has to have them though

 

...you mean low-gluten, right?  You can't use gluten-free.  

[Autumn Dusk]

Any priest that is notorious for purposefully stomping out good Pro life groups in every parrish he has ever been in makes me a little leary.   He even apologized for our Deacon's pro life homily completely in line with Church teaching and promised the parish he would never do that again.  Since then Deacon has not done a homily.  That was in September.  But at least the praise and worship band sounds good :vomit: .  And seriously I am told this guy is a real serious Celiac.  Like vomit for weeks over the smallest incidents.  I might ask him about it, but I am not sure I dare. 

 

CCC, we don't know what was said in that homily and weather being completely in line with the church's teaching was also given with mercy, love and in a non-graphic family oriented way.  Perhaps you felt so, but as the caregiver of children, things I catch for their sake upset me as the didn't when I didn't have to explain things to little ears.

 

While I don't want every pro-life group stomped out, I work actively to remove any use of graphic pictures and if that means the group goes, then so be it.

 

If the priest speaks out against pro-life than report him to the bishop, otherwise it's his decision on how best to handle his flock.

[FutureSister2009]

...you mean low-gluten, right?  You can't use gluten-free.  

 

 

I don't know. I suppose that's what it is. I just think everyone should be allowed to receive Communion even if they can't have a lot of gluten. That just wouldn't be fair.

[Basilisa Marie]

I don't know. I suppose that's what it is. I just think everyone should be allowed to receive Communion even if they can't have a lot of gluten. That just wouldn't be fair.

 

Well, sure, but you have to have at least a tiny amount of wheat gluten in the bread for it to count as bread.  And the amount in some low-gluten hosts is tolerable by some people with allergies (like in the article Autumn mentioned, something like 0.01%). Plus, I mean, the body, blood, soul and divinity is present in both the bread and wine. 

[cartermia]

I cannot take the wine at mass.  My stomach hurts for about a week after I receive it.

[Speedy2]

Two kids at my home parish are like that.  My mom runs the kid's faith formation, and told the families that it'd be perfectly fine for the kids to receive under the species of wine only...but the kids begged their parents to let them receive the bread as well, at least for their first communion.  So the parents relented, and prepared for a night of upset stomachs...but nothing bad happened.  Whether it's a Eucharistic miracle or just that the small amount of gluten doesn't affect them, it's still really, really cool. :)

 

I have a gluten intolerance myself. I'm VERY sensitive, one spoon of flour in a pot of soup is enough for me to vomit. In my home parish, the parish got those special low-gluten hosts for me. I'm often traveling and receive the Eucharist as normal host with gluten - and it has never triggered my intolerance in any way.