[Sca-cooks] Okay, so this is vaguely food-related...

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> Ok, I admit to being a little confused.  The vatican letter seemed to 
> imply that while exceptions could be made, it was grudgingly accepted.  

Yes, but it's a cultural thing. When communion is offered only in one 
specie, it's in the bread, because handling the wafers is simpler than the 
wine. For many years, it was offered only under one specie-- the wafer-- 
to the congregation. That's why it's so culturally important that church 
organizations have developed low-gluten wafers.

> That is, if it's so important to take both wafer and wine that a celiac 
> sufferer wouldn't be considered for Holy Orders, then it seems like it's 
> not unimportant for everyone to take both, just accepted due to demand.  

No, it's important for the priest to be able to take both as part of the 
consecration. That's why if you can't take both, you can't be a priest.
However, _taking_ communion after consecration is completed can be under 
either specie or both species.

Many people don't understand the difference between the doctrine of 
transubstantiation and symbolic communion, and that causes all kinds of 
trauma for everyone, too. 

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