Is this insulting to the Eucharist [photo]

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This image is circulating around various Facebook groups I’m in and I’m not sure of I should defend the Eucharist for this kind of flippancy, or of it’s even truly that inappropriate to begin with
 
I wouldn’t say insulting, but I suspect it isn’t practical for a number of reasons.
 
Perfectly acceptable in protestant churches because they are receiving a piece of bread. Completely unacceptable in Catholic Church because we are receiving our Lord Jesus Christ in all His glory, so we must treat Him with the utmost respect.
 
Except for what you said about the Protestant church, I agree with you.

I think its insulting to God to think we would need something like this to recieve the Eucharist in a healthy manner.

Have a little faith in God.
 
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OK… I’ll play devil’s advocate: what’s “insulting” about it?
 
annad347 said:
said about the Protestant church,
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Why? . . . Because most Protestant . . . think it’s a piece of bread too.

. . . Even Luther, who believed in consubstantiation–i.e., Christ’s body and blood are present with the bread and wine–said about the Mass:

"The Principal expression of their cult, the Mass, surpasses all impiety and abomination in that they make of it a sacrifice and a good work.“
 
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Gorgias said:
OK… I’ll play devil’s advocate: what’s “insulting” about it?
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if that machine is being used to prevent the spread of the Corona virus, its insulting to God.

I can’t remember the official terms but Catholics believe bread and wine miraculously become the body and blood of Christ, yet the miracle isn’t enough to prevent the spread of a virus. Especially if the Priest is cleaning everyone is cleaning their hands… don’t you think that’s a little insulting?

I think its a sad day, when my Priest can not present me with the body and blood of Christ because of man’s fear. Have a little faith.
 
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Well, apart from the ones who claim to be Catholics. But we call them protestants because their orders are null and utterly void, and so therefore is their attempt to recreate a eucharist.
 
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Well… at least it’s painted gold and not in neon colors like a nerf gun.
 
Would you put Jesus in a plastic tube machine?

And before anyone says that we put Him in a chalice, He put Himself there.
 
C.Ray said:
Well… at least it’s painted gold and not in neon colors like a nerf gun.
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again another reason why they need a little LOL next to the heart on the bottom of a thread.

This was funny 😂 😂
 
Maximian said:
Why? They think it’s a piece of bread too.
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I’m getting a bit tired from having to explain that again and again, but it’s false to say that of a good number of Protestant denominations, including the Reformed church I work for. If you asked most parishioners what they think they are receiving, they’d tell you “the Body and Blood of the Lord”.

I’m not talking about validity or liceity here, just about what it means to some actual Protestants in some actual churches, and how important it is to them.

For the record, I’m on my way out partly because I don’t think we have apostolic succession. That doesn’t change the fact that many of the people I meet daily see the Eucharist as the heart of their faith.
 
It only becomes the body and blood in their view by their own act of faith. Therefore, while sitting in a dispenser, it is still bread.
 
annad347 said:
if that machine is being used to prevent the spread of the Corona virus, its insulting to God.

I can’t remember the official terms but Catholics believe bread and wine miraculously become the body and blood of Christ, yet the miracle isn’t enough to prevent the spread of a virus. Especially if the Priest is cleaning everyone is cleaning their hands… don’t you think that’s a little insulting?
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We’ve had many past threads on this. It is quite possible for a physical Eucharist to transmit disease.
Its being Jesus doesn’t miraculously stop that.
The priest sanitizes his hands so that his hands won’t get virus on the Eucharist. Those of us who receive in the hand sanitize our hands for the same reason.
It’s not insulting to recognize this fact.
 
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It only becomes the body and blood in their view by their own act of faith.
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Again, this is not true of all Protestant denominations.
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Therefore, while sitting in a dispenser, it is still bread.
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Not in my church, nope [ETA: should we use the above contraption, which we don’t]. In its theology, the species cease to be “still bread” at consecration, effected by the words of institution and the epiclesis.

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They think it’s a piece of bread too.
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Well, some of “them” don’t. Whatever the way a particular denomination thinks the Real Presence is actualized, Protestants who believe in Real Presence do not “think it’s a piece of bread”.

I agree that from a Catholic point of view, what we do does not meet the criteria of a valid and licit sacrament, and I have no problem with you considering, from said Catholic point of view, that what people receive when they commune in my parish is “a piece of bread”. But that has absolutely no impact whatsoever on what “they” think – and a lot of “them” do not think what you think they think.
 
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I did some research on this item. It’s not some new thing for the COVID pandemic. It has been around for over 10 years and was invented as a response to previous flu epidemics.

Obviously no Catholic church will use this to distribute consecrated hosts. However, some Catholic churches have used it to allow Mass attendees to place an unconsecrated host onto a plate as they enter, without needing to stick their fingers into a bowl of unconsecrated hosts. The practice of putting one host onto a plate as you enter is done at a lot of smaller churches where they don’t want to consecrate more hosts than are needed. If your church uses this, then as you enter church, you just pick up the machine and squeeze one unconsecrated host onto the plate, which is then taken up to the altar at presentation of the gifts. Since the unconsecrated hosts are bread, it’s not insulting to use the machine to dispense them.

Some Protestant churches do use it to distribute communion, although some ministers have made Internet posts objecting to it on the grounds that it’s disrespectful or that communion in their opinion doesn’t transmit disease.
 
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