Gluten-free hosts aren’t gluten-free

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To be honest, Margaret Ann, I found your comments to be upsetting. I don’t need a lesson on transubstantion. Telling people with coeliac disease that it’s OK to receive Holy Communion because your friend doesn’t have a problem with it is wrong and insulting. Do you think the Vatican is mistaken, or other people are simply lacking in faith?

The Vatican accepts that people, including priests are affected by gluten in the consecrated hosts, and plenty of people confirm that they are affected, so to tell people, based on your friend’s comments, that it is OK to receive Communion is unhelpful and harmful.

And, as stated above, just because your friend feels no effects, if she does have coeliac disease, she almost certainly is doing her body untold repeated damage.
 
The teaching of the Church is clear, all accidents of bread and wine remain.

One can get drunk from the Precious Blood because the accidents of wine remain. The Host still has every physical aspect of bread, including the gluten.

Your friend sounds like my friend, she knows what will and what will not cause her a reaction.
 
Jessie said:
To be honest, Margaret Ann, I found your comments to be upsetting. I don’t need a lesson on transubstantion. Telling people with coeliac disease that it’s OK to receive Holy Communion because your friend doesn’t have a problem with it is wrong and insulting. Do you think the Vatican is mistaken, or other people are simply lacking in faith?
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You might consider being charitable and giving her a break. Many folks think that the Precious Blood doesn’t contain alcohol and the Host doesn’t contain gluten. Try asking your average practicing Catholic “can you get drunk on the Precious Blood?” and see if they don’t recoil in horror at the thought. But, with a bit of pondering, it’s clear that you can – the ‘accidents of wine’ contain alcohol, just as the ‘accidents of bread’ contain gluten.

So, I think it’s less a bad-faith attempt to mislead people than it is a good-faith misunderstanding of Eucharistic theology.
 
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