Celiac and Traditional Latin Mass

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I’m curious how the Traditional Latin Mass handles the issue of people with Celiac disease if they only do the host. I am gluten-intolerant and our parish might be introducing the Traditional Latin Mass soon. Would I be able to get permission to receive from the chalice? Or would I have to stick with the low gluten hosts?
 
I have yet to a see a Latin Mass that uses the chalice for the folks in the pews. If I had to guess, you probably have to stick with the low gluten hosts. Or just don’t receive at all which is perfectly fine as well.
 
Since the host is believed to become the actual “body” of Christ, what difference does it make what it starts out as?
 
I think that user was implying that if it transforms into the flesh of Christ why would it still have gluten in it.
 
The host maintains all the “accidents” or “physical properties” of bread - it becomes the Body of Christ in a mystical way.
 
Does bread by definition have to have gluten in it? Why can’t gluten free bread also become the Body of Christ?
 
According to Catholic canon law, only fresh unleavened bread made from pure wheat with no additional ingredients may be used for the celebration of Mass. Gluten is part of what makes wheat actually wheat.
 
KevinK said:
Does bread by definition have to have gluten in it? Why can’t gluten free bread also become the Body of Christ?
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Gluten is in wheat, and the Church has decreed that the Eucharistic bread be made of wheat flour.

That’s why low gluten bread is possible to use, but gluten free is impossible.

Wheat is the key matter for confecting the Eucharistic Body just as grape wine is the key matter for confecting the Eucharistic Blood.

If a Priest tried confecting a gluten free bread it would be invalid - it would remain gluten free bread not only in accident but also in substance, no consecration and therefore no transubstantiation would occur.
 
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KevinK said:
Does bread by definition have to have gluten in it? Why can’t gluten free bread also become the Body of Christ?
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Yes, bread must, by definition, have gluten. It is the binding agent that distinguishes bread from cooked flour. You might have gluten free flour, but mixing and baking that will not result in bread.

What results from low or no gluten baking is cake, not bread. That is why you cannot make bread with straight oats, what you get are called oak cakes.
 
EqualinHim said:
I’m curious how the Traditional Latin Mass handles the issue of people with Celiac disease if they only do the host
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People were a lot hardier back then- a lot of people around together would have never survived in the 1960’s or before.

Celiac wasn’t an issue, but it just wasn’t gluten.

People didn’t wear seat belts, smoked everywhere, car seats for kids were not existence, drug driving statutes had a limit of 0.15 before you were too drunk to drive.

Most of the people around today would probably be extinct if they had lived back then.
 
EqualinHim said:
I’m curious how the Traditional Latin Mass handles the issue of people with Celiac disease if they only do the host. I am gluten-intolerant and our parish might be introducing the Traditional Latin Mass soon. Would I be able to get permission to receive from the chalice? Or would I have to stick with the low gluten hosts?
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Either option of reception should be available to you in either form of the Mass (I’ve seen it done in all ways, in both forms). It wouldn’t really be a matter of “permission” (technically) but just speaking with the priest beforehand so he knows what your needs are.

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um…Celiac was always an issue. People just didn’t know what it was and would see their once-healthy children waste away until death.
 
At our FSSP parish, we have one individual who receives from the chalice because of an extreme intolerance to gluten, which was documented by a physician. The priest consecrates an additional chalice, and communicates the individual at the end of communion, from that second chalice.
 
Also, incense. Apparently no one alive today can tolerate incense.
 
Most of the asthmatics who complain about incense would have been dead or invalids who could not leave home in the fifties. Asthma treatment has come a long way since then but not far enough for many asthmatics who are made very ill by incense.
 
Mi_Rose said:
Most of the asthmatics who complain about incense would have been dead or invalids who could not leave home in the fifties. Asthma treatment has come a long way since then but not far enough for many asthmatics who are made very ill by incense.
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Our daughter is asthmatic. She could not serve Mass if incense was used because there was too much smoke in the sanctuary but she could tolerate being in a pew near the back of the church because she wouldn’t be exposed to as much smoke.

But asthmatics are not the only ones who complain about incense. I’m positive that some people would cough if you walked through the church swinging a never used thurible with nothing in it. That’s why in most parishes I’ve attended in the last several decades you only encounter incense at the Easter Vigil and funerals.
 
I suspect many of these people simply died young, or were those of “delicate constitutions.”

Accidental deaths and major injuries were much more common back then, and less rehab available.

Glory days aren’t always as glorious as we think.
 
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I suspect many of these people simply died young, or were those of “delicate constitutions.”
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At least we can surmise that whatever causes people to be ultra sensitive to gluten- or incense- or sulfur dioxide, tobacco smoke and car exhaust- isn’t a hereditary condition. If it was carried in the genes, the trait would have died off centuries ago.
 
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