Is the body of Christ gluten free? Asking for a friend.
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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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.
Priest here!
The "wheat" is more of a formality in the concentrations used in the gluten-free hosts.
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The LONG sermon:
Ever hear of homeopathy? The "homeopathic essence" of whatever substance used?
For SAFE things like violet essence or dandelion essence, so called "flower essences":the flowers are place in water in the sun and happy thoughts are thought over them. (Just about like a prayer, don't you think?)
For UNSAFE substances: like black widow venom, datura flowers, and uranium: water is brought CLOSE to these things (in the case of freaking uranium. Like on a tour through a nuclear plant and holding a glass of water up to the thick glass that separates tourists from a nuclear reactor) or HEAVILY diluted.
I'm talking a drop of venom in a gallon of water, which then a drop of that gallon is placed in a fresh gallon of water, etc. etc. UP TO 100 TIMES.
And very DIFFERENT happy thoughts are beamed at that tenth of fiftieth or HUNDREDTH gallon of water (a bit like an Exorcism, if I do say so myself) and THEN that water is administered to someone.
Like a Sacrament.
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So, Rest Assured!
A Priest has Spoken!!
And the "gluten free hosts" TECHNICALLY contain wheat,
But not in any kind of concentration that is going to get any tummies rumbling.
The Church (I mean the actual, loving one that doesn't want to kill or molest people) doesn't want to hurt anyone.
And I as a Priest of that church, love you very much.
Take care of yourself, Habibi!
Xoxo -Long Winded Priest.
Lovely explanation, thanks!
Yeah, hopefully it would be clearly labeled. I went to a Presbyterian church one time and at their communion, everyone else got wonderful looking artisan brown bread. They gave me this weird half-and-half cup with brown looking wine and this tiny 1 cm chip of theoretically gluten free cracker sealed on top. It was kinda interesting so I just kept it.