Concernd about communion hosts in dumpster

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Didn’t you also find them in your grandmother or mothers photo album? Is this ringing any bells for anyone here?

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Yes, definitely!! Especially if you look at the OP’s posting history – If you were experiencing an emergency and crisis like this would you go to an anonymous website you never joined before and start posting?

Very suspicious
 
I was prepared to give her the benefit of the doubt
Troll Alert!

Didn’t you also find them in your grandmother or mothers photo album? Is this ringing any bells for anyone here?

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=648946&highlight=found+a+host

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Yes, definitely!! Especially if you look at the OP’s posting history – If you were experiencing an emergency and crisis like this would you go to an anonymous website you never joined before and start posting?

Very suspicious
…until she posted this (my bolding - that is just not possible at all):
Father Phillip came by and asked me how I knew the hosts were consecrated. I said I woukd see her take them from mass. He seemed irritated but then said some prayers over the dumpster. He then said they were no longer our lord and to go on using the dumpster. Thank God! We really need it to sort through my grandma’s other stuff. Let’s hope there are no more shoeboxes! Thanks for all of your help here!
 
Yes, definitely!! Especially if you look at the OP’s posting history – If you were experiencing an emergency and crisis like this would you go to an anonymous website you never joined before and start posting?

Very suspicious
What posting history? The only other thread the OP has started was one about what to do with old rosaries and such. Unless there are some other threads that have been recently deleted by the moderators.
 
What posting history? The only other thread the OP has started was one about what to do with old rosaries and such. Unless there are some other threads that have been recently deleted by the moderators.
The lack of postihg history is what I am referring to. Reread what I posted.
 
Gosh. I don’t know why anyone would pretend that someone died, leaving religious stuff behind. Anyway, when I realized the eucharists were in the dumpster this morning I called my most catholic friend and she directed me here - that’s why I just joined. Honestly, I’m not super devout and I needed the advice of some people who knew more about my grandma’s faith. She was very devout and I hope that, for her sake, you are wrong that what she did (keeping the eucharists) was a huge no no. At any rate, thanks for the help.
 
Gosh. I don’t know why anyone would pretend that someone died, leaving religious stuff behind. Anyway, when I realized the eucharists were in the dumpster this morning I called my most catholic friend and she directed me here - that’s why I just joined. Honestly, I’m not super devout and I needed the advice of some people who knew more about my grandma’s faith. She was very devout and I hope that, for her sake, you are wrong that what she did (keeping the eucharists) was a huge no no. At any rate, thanks for the help.
Just stop, this is pretty sick. People have given you their time, thoughts and prayers. No one knows who you are, how about an apology for your own sake.
 
Gosh. I don’t know why anyone would pretend that someone died, leaving religious stuff behind. Anyway, when I realized the eucharists were in the dumpster this morning I called my most catholic friend and she directed me here - that’s why I just joined. Honestly, I’m not super devout and I needed the advice of some people who knew more about my grandma’s faith. She was very devout and I hope that, for her sake, you are wrong that what she did (keeping the eucharists) was a huge no no. At any rate, thanks for the help.
The bottom line is, if the Hosts are still in the dumpster, They need to be found and gotten out. The Eucharist cannot be deconsecrated, so the prayers the priest said did NOT remove the Real Presence. Jesus is still present and therefore He needs to be rescued from the dumpster.

As far as what the consequences to her will be for keeping the Hosts, we can’t exactly say but it is very bad, people here are not wrong about that. Her culpability may be lessened by ignorance if she truly did not know it was wrong. Definitely pray for her soul and have Masses said for her - that’s what you should do anyway- and maybe ask a priest his opinion (perhaps not the one you called today due to the whole deconsecration thing).

Praying for this situation - please get the Hosts out, They are not deconsecrated. Jesus is still there.
 
The bottom line is, if the Hosts are still in the dumpster, They need to be found and gotten out. The Eucharist cannot be deconsecrated, so the prayers the priest said did NOT remove the Real Presence. Jesus is still present and therefore He needs to be rescued from the dumpster.

As far as what the consequences to her will be for keeping the Hosts, we can’t exactly say but it is very bad, people here are not wrong about that. Her culpability may be lessened by ignorance if she truly did not know it was wrong. Definitely pray for her soul and have Masses said for her - that’s what you should do anyway- and maybe ask a priest his opinion (perhaps not the one you called today due to the whole deconsecration thing).

Praying for this situation - please get the Hosts out, They are not deconsecrated. Jesus is still there.
this ,if the your story is true pm the location of the dumpster to one of us .i’ll will contact the knights of columbus in the area and we will have someone dumpster diving by daybreak tomorrow.this is serious.if you do not contact one of us ,i for one will have to assume your making this up.this has to be taken care of if true. i have contacted my pastor , and he affirmed what everyone already knew.one can not unconsercrate .he actually was kinda aggravated that i asked such a stupid question.again contact one of us by pm or email
 
Father Phillip came by and asked me how I knew the hosts were consecrated. I said I woukd see her take them from mass. He seemed irritated but then said some prayers over the dumpster. He then said they were no longer our lord and to go on using the dumpster. Thank God! We really need it to sort through my grandma’s other stuff. Let’s hope there are no more shoeboxes! Thanks for all of your help here!
For all the other Catholics in this thread who read this and decided this whole thing is a hoax, let me clarify something.

In cases that the Body or Blood of Christ have been so badly desecrated or ruined so as to be irretrievable, there IS a prayer said in such a situation. This prayer does NOT ‘deconsecrate’ the Host. As was said by a previous poster, once the Body or Blood has been so badly removed from it’s former appearance that it no longer has the appearance of bread or wine, it ceases to be Christ; this is true.

When such an accident has occurred, there is a prayer which a priest says over the remains of the sacred species, which is essentially a prayer of supplication to God asking for forgiveness that such a thing occurred. The species are no longer God; they have lost their appearance, but this prayer is really just an after-the-fact apology to God.

I don’t know all the theological details as to why this is done, but I have seen it done before at my Lain Mass parish when accidents like this occur.

Really, it is likely no longer possible to get the host out of that dumpster, because it is likely so mixed up with the other things that it no longer can be called bread.
 
Really, it is likely no longer possible to get the host out of that dumpster, because it is likely so mixed up with the other things that it no longer can be called bread.
Such I would propose would not be the case here.

(For one thing they were reported to be in a box…so I imagine the appearance of bread would persist)
 
They were in the box when they were found; for all we know the contents of the box were thrown in, but not the box itself.

We need more details.
 
They were in the box when they were found; for all we know the contents of the box were thrown in, but not the box itself.

We need more details.
Still the appearance would still likely continue --even if the box was dumped out. It would take a good deal to reduce the number of hosts to what no longer appeared to be bread.
 
Still the appearance would still likely continue --even if the box was dumped out. It would take a good deal to reduce the number of hosts to what no longer appeared to be bread.
I agree, this is true, but from what I have heard it appears that a lot of food items are being thrown in and the contents of the dumpster are likely in decay… if the hosts are scattered in the mix they likely aren’t in very good shape.

However, I now realize this speculation in unneccesary. I think that the OP should get her nearest Knights of Columbus group to come scope out the situation, and if it appears that the dumpster is one massive glob of greasy liquid, they can safely assume the hosts are dissolved; and if not, the hosts must be found.
 
Aye. Any priest wort his salt will likely come and get them out!
Hi,

If you had read later in the thread (no harm in not doing so, 'cept for a lack of context) the OP has called a priest, and the said priest said a prayer over the dumpster, left, and called it a done deal.

🤷
 
The lack of postihg history is what I am referring to. Reread what I posted.
I don’t understand your point. Her first post was to ask for advice about what to do with the rosaries and other religious items that she found when going through her grandmother’s things. That doesn’t seem strange to me. Do you find it strange?

Then, when the issue of the box of hosts arose, she came back to CAF for more advice, having recently posted about something related. That doesn’t seem strange to me either.
 
Hi,

If you had read later in the thread (no harm in not doing so, 'cept for a lack of context) the OP has called a priest, and the said priest said a prayer over the dumpster, left, and called it a done deal.

🤷
Any priest worth his salt would check the dumpster to see whether any of the hosts could be safely retrieved. And above all would not give the OP the false impression that the hosts had somehow been ‘dconsecrated’ by his prayer.
 
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