Shortages in Venezuela mean priests are running out of Hosts

[_Abyssinia]

Caracas, Venezuela, Aug 15, 2015 / 03:33 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Venezuela’s ongoing economic crisis has hit the Church in a unique way: the production of Hosts fell 60 percent during the past month, affecting three states in the South American country.

Giovanni Luisio Mass, prior of the Order of Poor Knights of Christ of the Temple of Jerusalem, explained to local media that the shortage of unleavened wheat flour needed to make Hosts has been acute for a month now.

According to Caracol TV, the monthly production of Hosts has dropped from 80,000 to 30,000. This drop, Mass indicated, has affected every parish in three Venezuelan states. He added that they can only send 1,500 Hosts to the parishes in the north of the country, because there is no longer enough flour to make the 8,000 they have always needed.

catholicnewsagency.com/news/shortages-in-venezuela-mean-priests-are-running-out-of-hosts-76481/

 

[ProVobis]

Looks like they’ll have to do a little host-splitting.

Still valid.

 

[TarkanAttila]

Oh dear. I guess it is possible to not have bread. I thought bread was a staple that was almost impossible to run out of. Apparently not.

Perhaps they should be allowed to do it “Eastern-style”:
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I wonder: would offering the wine only, instead of the host only, still be valid?

 

[Elizium23]

I wonder: would offering the wine only, instead of the host only, still be valid?

Yes, valid, but expensive and prone to many logistical problems.

Just break the altar bread into twos or fours.

 

[TK421]

You can fed 5000 parishioners with one loaf if you need to, and still have crumbs to be gathered.

 

[GEddie]

What a shame. I once lived there.

They really need Someone to walk on Lake Maracaibo and multiply the loaves and fishes…

ICXC NIKA

 

[ProVobis]

You can fed 5000 parishioners with one loaf if you need to, and still have crumbs to be gathered.

I understand things aren’t the same there as many don’t receive unlike those in the U.S.

 

[Megan7]

catholicnewsagency.com/news/shortages-in-venezuela-mean-priests-are-running-out-of-hosts-76481/

Thanks, Abyssinia. I appreciate the link. How sad…

Pro Vobis, is right. They can split it up.

I was wondering, can we send Hosts to the Archbishop, so he can distribute them? Is that even possible, and maybe some flour as well

I pray that if Catholics travel there, that they take Hosts to help the Church out.

God bless,

PAX

 

[GEddie]

Thanks, Abyssinia. I appreciate the link. How sad…

Pro Vobis, is right. They can split it up.

I was wondering, can we send Hosts to the Archbishop, so he can distribute them? Is that even possible, and maybe some flour as well

I pray that if Catholics travel there, that they take Hosts to help the Church out.

God bless,

PAX

Often they wouldn’t know how to go about getting the Host where needed.

Do pilgrims still go to Betania? Maybe Hosts could be gotten into VZ through there.

ICXC NIKA

 

[aicirt]

All thanks to the glories of communisim. Venezuela is a VERY rich country. This can easily happen here if useful idiots continue to follow the Marxist Obama and Hillary.

 

[JurisPrudens]

Oh dear. I guess it is possible to not have bread. I thought bread was a staple that was almost impossible to run out of. Apparently not.

Perhaps they should be allowed to do it “Eastern-style”:
http://www.prosphora.org/dec2.jpg

I wonder: would offering the wine only, instead of the host only, still be valid?

The code of Canon law prohibits using levened bread in Latin rite

 

[Murmurs]

This is probably an urban myth (if someone knows for sure please debunk it!), but I do recall reading somewhere once that in parts of modern day Germany during some time in the Middle Ages where wine for whatever reason was particularly hard to come by, priests would use (licitly or not under then-applicable rubrics I don’t know!) beer instead of wine (which given communion practice then the congregation wouldn’t have noticed anyway). Seemingly a very German solution to a problem.

Now obviously splitting Hosts when necessary is a proper solution - substituting bread for potato chips most definitely would not be! - but I was just put in mind of that story…

 

[TarkanAttila]

The code of Canon law prohibits using levened bread in Latin rite

Of course, a dispensation could be given, and would be necessary to do so.

But I’m going to guess that wouldn’t happen unless things got real bad.

 

[saintjohnxxiii]

Can’t hosts be imported from other Countries?

 

[zz912]

All thanks to the glories of communisim. Venezuela is a VERY rich country.

Very true. The socialism in Venezuela is causing untold misery and suffering for the people there. Simple things like wheat, toilet paper, food, etc. They can’t produce enough for the basics.

And yet many want to follow their path…