Any other Celiacs here (allergic to wheat)

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Can you tell me how you have resolved your allergy with the eucharist? Ie: does the Priest give you wine when everyone else is taking the bread?

I haven’t asked my Priest yet because I became a Catholic AFTER I was married. We can’t have a sacramental marriage until or if my husbands first marriage is annuled.

Anyways, what do you do if you go to another Church where special provisions have not been made for you? Do you go up for a blessing or just sit there?

Do you feel alienated at all because you have Celiac Disease?

(This is a very selfish thought, but when i first became a Catholic just over a year ago, I thought, why would Jesus have made the center of a ritual a food that many people are deathly ill to?)

Do you think that is why he gave us bread AND WINE? Is the wine for those of us who can’t consume wheat?

What are your thoughts on being a Catholic with Celiac Disease?

Thanks
 
Not a Celiac, but I do have some insight

First, they make gluten-free hosts that you can request your priest consecrates one of these for you, which will be kept separate from the wheat hosts.

These, from what I have heard though, are not technically gluten-free, but just really gluten low, so they ability for you to consume one of these depends on the severity of your reaction to gluten.

Otherwise, yes it is allowed and done for a chalice to be consecrated and you only consume under the species of the Precious Blood.

Again depending on how serious your allergy is, you can either just partake of the chalice, or if it is very serious, a separate chalice can be consecrated, you you can be the first person to receive from that chalice.

At my parish there are two people who have, I assume this allergy, and during weekday masses where the Eucharist is only offered under the species of the Precious Blood, a special chalice is consecrated for them to receive from, which they do after the priests consume but before the rest of the congregation gets up, for logistical reasons.

I can say personally I have never looked at those people as “different” or “weird” any more so than a person who only receives the Precious Body for any number of reasons.
 
Thanks Senor Salsa,

I’m glad to hear that they are able to use a seperate chalice for the celiacs. Because I was wondering if they would do that to avoid cross contamination.

I definately could not tolerate the low gluten host as i am a highly sensitive Celiac.

I hope the Church will annul my husbands first marriage or its a moot point for me as I will have no chance of ever recieving the Eucharist. If that happens I’ll feel pretty bad.
 
I am a Celiac, have never been healthier now that I know about my disease.
As far a Communion, I do not even take the wine because although the chalise is carefully wiped, I am as sensitive as they come, I guess. (Learned the hard way, thru trial and error.) Now, I did try to recieve the low-Gluten host when I visited my mother-this is truly a family disease- and even that does not work! As far as asking my parish to provide the hosts, it is up to your own parish. They will either provide them for you or ask that you provide them. Cost, I suppose. I will take Communion on Easter Sunday. The rest of the time I ask for a blessing.

I suppose if Christ was born in China and performed His miracles there the hosts would be naturally gluten-free!
 
I posted a thread yesterday on another topic and one of the responses was an interesting link that addressed my question and your gluten issue. You might want to check it out; the thread is Communion Wine and Alcoholic Priests" in Liturgy and Sacraments.
 
The key when visiting another Parish is to speak with the Priest BEFORE Mass.

I’m aware of one person who can consume the low gluten hosts. She takes them with her when she visits another Parish.

Another person cannot recieve the LG Hosts, she has a small chalice that is given to the Priest before Mass. He consecrates some some precious blood in that chalice for her to consume.
 
kage_ar said:
The key when visiting another Parish is to speak with the Priest BEFORE Mass.

I’m aware of one person who can consume the low gluten hosts. She takes them with her when she visits another Parish.

Another person cannot recieve the LG Hosts, she has a small chalice that is given to the Priest before Mass. He consecrates some some precious blood in that chalice for her to consume.
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She takes her own chalice, good idea.🙂
 
Lisa44 said:
Can you tell me how you have resolved your allergy with the eucharist? Ie: does the Priest give you wine when everyone else is taking the bread?

I haven’t asked my Priest yet because I became a Catholic AFTER I was married. We can’t have a sacramental marriage until or if my husbands first marriage is annuled.

Anyways, what do you do if you go to another Church where special provisions have not been made for you? Do you go up for a blessing or just sit there?

Do you feel alienated at all because you have Celiac Disease?

(This is a very selfish thought, but when i first became a Catholic just over a year ago, I thought, why would Jesus have made the center of a ritual a food that many people are deathly ill to?)

Do you think that is why he gave us bread AND WINE? Is the wine for those of us who can’t consume wheat?

What are your thoughts on being a Catholic with Celiac Disease?

Thanks
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At Communion, you receive neither bread nor wine. You receive the Body and Blood our our Lord under the accidents of bread and wine. 🙂
 
I wasn’t arguing that the the Blessed Sacrament wouldn’t cause an allergic reaction to occur, but I was saying that you shouldn’t normally refer to It as “the bread and wine”.
 
Lisa44 said:
Thanks Senor Salsa,

I’m glad to hear that they are able to use a seperate chalice for the celiacs. Because I was wondering if they would do that to avoid cross contamination.

I definately could not tolerate the low gluten host as i am a highly sensitive Celiac.

I hope the Church will annul my husbands first marriage or its a moot point for me as I will have no chance of ever recieving the Eucharist. If that happens I’ll feel pretty bad.
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Actually thats not quite correct. If your husband’s first marriage is not annulled you and your husband can live a life of continence, go to Confession and then you would be able to receive Communion.
 
DixitDominus said:
At Communion, you receive neither bread nor wine. You receive the Body and Blood our our Lord under the accidents of bread and wine. 🙂
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As much as I’d love to have that faith, my intestines don’t share that faith!
 
I know a priest who has celiac disease and he uses a very low gluten host. Fortunately he can tolerate it.
 
DixitDominus said:
At Communion, you receive neither bread nor wine. You receive the Body and Blood our our Lord under the accidents of bread and wine. 🙂
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I don’t have an autoimmune disease triggered by Christ, I have an autoimmune disease triggered by wheat.

[Edited] I suffer daily with a disease and an ill person is in no mood for petty arguments. [Edited]
 
thistle said:
Actually thats not quite correct. If your husband’s first marriage is not annulled you and your husband can live a life of continence, go to Confession and then you would be able to receive Communion.
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What? I don’t understand. I thought if you don’t have a sacramental marriage you cannot go to confession or recieve the Eucharist?
At least, that is what they told me in RCIA?
 
ajcoley1 said:
I am a Celiac, have never been healthier now that I know about my disease.
As far a Communion, I do not even take the wine because although the chalise is carefully wiped, I am as sensitive as they come, I guess. (Learned the hard way, thru trial and error.) Now, I did try to recieve the low-Gluten host when I visited my mother-this is truly a family disease- and even that does not work! As far as asking my parish to provide the hosts, it is up to your own parish. They will either provide them for you or ask that you provide them. Cost, I suppose. I will take Communion on Easter Sunday. The rest of the time I ask for a blessing.

I suppose if Christ was born in China and performed His miracles there the hosts would be naturally gluten-free!
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I’m surprised you take Communion on Easter. Do you get ill?
 
Lisa44 said:
I don’t have an autoimmune disease triggered by Christ, I have an autoimmune disease triggered by wheat.

[Edited] I suffer daily with a disease and an ill person is in no mood for petty arguments. [Edited].
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I [edited] think DixitDominus [edited] is simply trying to make a theological point. Yes it is the accidents of the bread that cause your reaction. But it is proper to call the consecrated species at the Body and Blood. While it would be theologically appropriate to say that due to Celiac you have a reaction to the accidents of bread. He wasn’t trying to be offensive, or rude, just making a theological point. I have two friends who are both very devout Catholics and have Celiac and I know this is very hard from them, and its hard anyone with Celiac.

Also Thistle is wrong. The only way you could do that is if you and your husband lived as brother and sister then you could go to confession, and then you could recieve Christ in the Eucharist. Then you would not be in a de facto state of adultury. But if your are having marital relations then you must obstain from the sacraments.
 
Lisa44 said:
What? I don’t understand. I thought if you don’t have a sacramental marriage you cannot go to confession or recieve the Eucharist?
At least, that is what they told me in RCIA?
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Don’t you mean a valid marriage? In any event he means that if you live a life of continence - no marital relations- it is possible that with spiritual direction from a priest you may receive the sacraments.
 
Lisa44 said:
I’m surprised you take Communion on Easter. Do you get ill?
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I know that my friend with neuralogical type of celiac does this. It causes some pretty bad stuff, but she can control most of the external effects with medicine.
 
zagjames said:
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Also Thistle is wrong. The only way you could do that is if you and your husband lived as brother and sister then you could go to confession, and then you could recieve Christ in the Eucharist. Then you would not be in a de facto state of adultury. But if your are having marital relations then you must obstain from the sacraments.
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Thistle clearly stated life of continence.
However it should be noted that on this board this type of life gets brought up a lot and I don’t know a lot of priests who allow it. Probably due to danger of the sin of scandal. Along with this life of continence the couple is to receive the sacraments where they will not cause scandal to those who know of the invalid marriage situation.
 
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