Additives allowed?: On Eucharist bread ingredients

[John_of_Woking]

Marauder:

Yes, it is true, but there is such thing as a reduced gluten host. There is a group of Nuns that make a valid host where the amount of wheat in the host is so small it can barely be detected.

For a person that absolutely can not have gluten they are allowed to make special provision with the priest to receive the precious blood even if the rest of the congregation is not.

P.S. I should add, it is possible to make a gluten free host but it would be invalid matter and shouldn’t be used for communion.

Thanks very much, someone close to me uses what she calls a gluten-free. I will gently raise the matter (if you pardon the pun) with her

 

[Marauder]

John of Woking:

Thanks very much, someone close to me uses what she calls a gluten-free. I will gently raise the matter (if you pardon the pun) with her

If you want documentation to back up what you are talking about, go to This site.

I know the site is the US conference of Bishops and your profile says England, but since this applies to RS which is universal I think it would still apply.

 

[Bill_A]

*The church at my school has a recipe for Eucharist bread which includes, among other things, honey, sugar, and buttermilk or vinegar. *

http://www.shopfoodex.com/catalog/images/hnybun1sfx.gif

Why do they need a recipe when they can get it just as easily from the supermarket?

How about Dipping sauce?

I will dip my bread into his sauce.

 

[HagiaSophia]

In a 1994 letter to all bishops, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, responded to concerns about people with celiac disease and alcoholism and proposals to change the Church laws that require wheat bread and grape wine to be used for Mass.

adoremus.org/CDF_Lowgluten-mustum94.html

 

[Bobby_Jim]

CMU, if your church insists on using a “substantial” bread, recipes exist to make an edible unleavened bread using just wheat flour and water. It takes some skill and practice to get it just right (and sometimes it will turn out rock-hard). It also does not last in the tabernacle, so the priest has to be careful not consecrate too much of it. But you may wish to mention that to the priest if you have a chance.

To me, it seems like it’s more trouble than it’s worth - wafers are definitely more convenient, not to mention more palatable. But some people really like the “substantial” bread. Just not my preference.