Gluten-free hosts aren’t gluten-free

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Tis_Bearself said:
As I understand it (somebody correct me if this is wrong), if it were a genuine mistake on the part of the priest (he thought they were wheat hosts) then the mistake might be covered as long as he didn’t make a practice out of it.

Was it a valid consecration if the priest used leavened bread? | Catholic Answers
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In the case where a priest unknowingly used a non-wheat host (like a rice “host”,) the consecration would NOT take place. A rice host is invalid matter.

The link you posted referred to using leavened bread. Leavened bread is not invalid matter, but rather unlawful matter, at least for Latin Catholics. The consecration would still take place.
 
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GospelOfMatthew said:
If completely non-gluten hosts were used, would Jesus not be present in them after the consecration? Is that what happens?
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If the priest changed the words of consecration, would Jesus not be present? If the person standing at the altar hadn’t ever been ordained, would that be an acceptable variation? Could we make things up as we go along?

As a priest friend said to me one day, all we can do is try to follow Jesus’ instructions and examples as closely as we can. He showed us what to do and we follow as closely as possible.
 
I am immune suppressed due to a stem cell transplant. Common viruses and bacteria have the potential to take my life. I risk sepsis, which claimed Paul Allen’s life. For the time being, I am avoiding the Chalice (that alone almost kills me), but I know that the Precious Blood is contained in the consecrated Host.

That is more than enough. If my heart is properly disposed, it brings tears.

I think that some people obsess over this issue.
 
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SMHW said:
The link you posted referred to using leavened bread. Leavened bread is not invalid matter, but rather unlawful matter, at least for Latin Catholics. The consecration would still take place.
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I understand your comment re the leavened bread, however I did not post it for its statement regarding leavened bread. I posted it because it’s an official Catholic Answers response and it explicitly states halfway through,
The variety of wheat or the region of its origin does not affect its validity, but bread made from any other grain [e.g. barley, corn, rice, peanuts] is invalid material.
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In other words, bread without gluten is invalid. The consecration would be invalid if such bread were used.
 
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I am sure people who are celiac can receive spiritually and God will give them the same graces as he does to the rest of us who receive physically. He is after all love and mercy and if they are in a state of grace and especially if they attend mass and endure the looks they may get from others through not going up in humility when he knows it is through no fault of their own, they will suffer no loss of grace but only great compassion from Our Lord so they should consider it an honour to suffer in silence with him for he will reward them.
 
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Bluebright said:
especially if they attend mass and endure the looks they may get from others through not going up in humility when he knows it is through no fault of their own, they will suffer no loss of grace but only great compassion from Our Lord so they should consider it an honour to suffer in silence with him for he will reward them.
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This astonishes me, that people would be so rude as to give ‘looks’ to those who don’t receive.
Are you sure that this happens? Quite extraordinary.
 
paperwight said:
This astonishes me, that people would be so rude as to give ‘looks’ to those who don’t receive.
Are you sure that this happens? Quite extraordinary.
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This topic always seems to come up on the forum, the idea that people outside perhaps Joe Schmoe’s immediate family/ close friends at church with him are noticing that Joe Schmoe doesn’t receive Holy Communion, especially if Joe also doesn’t go up for a blessing. Presumably in the case of an illness preventing Joe from receiving, then all of his close family and friends would know the situation.

My personal opinion is that nobody other than like I said your immediate family/ close friends is going to either notice or care. I’ve been to Masses where so many people stayed in the pew I had to crawl over them to get out and I wasn’t giving anybody a “look” because they weren’t receiving, it’s their business. I also took my non-Catholic husband to church many times and he stayed in the pew and nobody gave him a “look”, not that he would have noticed or cared if they had.
 
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I do see people give looks occasionally like if someone usually receives but then doesn’t one day. But it’s not that often I see this, it’s really rare
 
From my experience, when I am not disposed to receive, my own guilt can morph into “they are all looking at me”.
 
And when I am the only one out of ten people marching up to receive, even though I just went to Confession the day before and haven’t to my knowledge committed a mortal sin in the past 24 hours, my own self-consciousness can morph into, “I suppose they all think I’m just heading up here out of habit without thinking about what I’m doing, etc.”
 
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Your question isn’t really the point. I don’t know if it happens it might, anything is possible, people are not perfect. I do know that people who don’t go up feel as if people look at them, as people
on here have commented on that. Please don’t ask me for a reference as its not important and I couldn’t give you one. I am concerned that you would be astonished by the sinful nature of man though. God bless
 
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I am both celiac and have had Ebsteinbar-Mono (this will stay with me forever, like the chicken pox, and pop up now and then and I can transmit it to anyone who eats or drinks after me and they will be bed ridden) so if I drink the wine, I risk infecting others unless I finish the wine - but if I finish the wine, I am at the greatest risk of being infected by something.

Boy howdy, sometimes we can’t win but that’s what faith is for sometimes. It gives us hope that things will work out for the best even if we stare into the face of danger and are scared. (But I am a scared cry baby so faith can only help so much)
 
Twelve years diagnosed Celiac here.

I regularly receive the low gluten host. According to the manufacturer, there is less than 10ppm. In the US and the UK, anything in the store labeled “Gluten Free” is guaranteed to be less than 20ppm.

So the low gluten host actually qualifies as gluten free according to the FDA.
 
maryjk said:
So the low gluten host actually qualifies as gluten free according to the FDA.
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👍

Personally, I think I’d pay to see the packets labeled “Gluten-free Low Gluten Hosts (valid for Catholic Eucharist)”…! 😄
 
People with Celiac disease should never have even a crumb.

They shouldn’t as @TheLittleLady indicated her friend did, splurge every now and then.

Each exposure to gluten causes damage. Even if they don’t realize it.

Which is why food is tested for gluten. Fifty parts per million a day is when researchers see intestinal damage.

One low gluten host is less than 10.
 
I think the problem, at least in the US, is that “gluten-free” has become a lifestyle.
I know many people who are gluten-free, by their CHOICE, not because of actual health reasons.
It has become a “fashionable” thing which makes it all the more difficult when someone really suffers from a true gluten intolerance

I know one person who has Celiac disease, she uses a low gluten host and has never had a problem. She has even said that on the very rare occasions that she had no low gluten host available, she talked to the priest before Mass and he was able to accommodate her with her own chalice.

This should not be at all difficult, in the US, with just a little bit of prior planning.
 
My niece’s allergy is so severe that she’s not supposed to be in the same room with gluten products. You can guess how successful she is at making that happen consistently.
 
I have deadly food allergies to dairy and nuts so I definitely empathize with people who have such difficult struggles. It is a tremendous cross to bear but all for the greater glory of God
 
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