How often is Christ's blood offered at your parish?

[Xanthippe_Voorhees]

Loud-living-dogma:

I think now celiac is now diagnosed, where I suspect in the past someone may have just had “digestion trouble” or some unknown illness bogging somebody down all the time,

What puzzles me is that before the current era, and even now in many parts of the world, bread is a staple without which, a lot of people would starve.

A lot of places don’t have all sorts of different foods we take for granted now.

If celiac and the inability to properly digest wheat was a genetic disorder, I would think it would have died out centuries ago, at least in those areas without non-gluten based staples

Well, bread is very different. For instance, Native Americans in the northeast didn’t use wheat flour, but acorn flour. Potato flour, rice flour, corn flour, nut flour etc and other flours. For most of history, wheat was found only in central Asia and the middle east.

Also, today our breads are much higher in gluten due to the way we process flour. In fact, until the early 18th century that bread makers really learned about what makes bread rise.

People can also live with many ailments and survive. There are a few natural “cures” too…like naturally fermented products–real sour kraut, pickles etc. Not the cheap stuff made with vinegar like we find today.

 

[GoGoDiego]

Not distributed.

Though the last time I received both kinds was during my high school altar server days. The priest celebrant (usually the School Chaplain) would distribute to us both kinds for us servers and only Christ’s body to the faithful.