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It's Got to Have Gluten or It Isn't a Communion Host

Full Question

For a number of years, our priest used gluten-free bread. If I received, was the host truly consecrated?

Answer

Sacraments require proper matter in order to be valid. You cannot baptize someone by pouring glue over them; you must use water. Using grape jelly instead of oil is not a valid administration of the last rites. In the same way, bread used for the Eucharist must truly be bread.
In 2003, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ruled that hosts must contain at least some gluten to be valid:

1. Hosts that are completely gluten-free are invalid matter for the celebration of the Eucharist.
2. Low-gluten hosts (partially gluten-free) are valid matter, provided they contain a sufficient amount of gluten to obtain the confection of bread without the addition of foreign materials and without the use of procedures that would alter the nature of bread.

Hosts used for Mass must contain gluten to be valid matter. However there are low-gluten hosts that contain such small amounts of gluten (as little as .01%) that many persons with celiac disease are able to receive them. My presumption would be that the priest used a low-gluten host.


By Fr. Charles Grondin

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    *****************************************************
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    *****************************************************
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  2. The THIRD HORSEMAN OF THE APOCALYPSE is coming TODAY: Friday the 13th of November 2015 C.E. !!!: ==================================================================
    Rev. 6:5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying: Come, and see. And behold a black horse, and he that sat on him had a pair of scales in his hand.
    Rev. 6:6 And I heard as it were a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying: Two pounds of wheat for a penny, and thrice two pounds of barley for a penny, and see thou hurt not the wine and the oil.
    He is the “Comet”, the so-called “Space-Junk” named: “WT1190F” whose ETA has been reported by an excellent Article on YAHOO, {Ref. my separate Posts on YAHOO & FACEBOOK Titled: “The THIRD HORSEMAN OF THE APOCALYPSE” regarding this matter}.
    *****************************************************
    The Link, with my Comments therein, {which came later than this, my Initial Prognostication made on Friday the 13th of November 2015 C.E.}, is now:
    A YAHOO Article Titled:
    “We have the first confirmed footage of the mysterious space junk WT1190F burning up in Earth’s atmosphere, and it’s amazing, YAHOO”,
    {and you can use this Title as your YAHOO Search Engine to find this Article},
    As soon as this Video was streamed, the PARIS ATTACKS spontaneously took place, orchestrated by 3-Star Terrorist “Generals” !!!
    Yet the bloody hypocrite Muslims insist that there cannot be the Blessed Holy Trinity of Christianity !!!
    *****************************************************
    His {the Third Horseman’s} motto is “MEASURE FOR MEASURE” of Shakespearean Fame.
    And the Great Sign In The Heavens of Rev. Chapter 12 will come soon, on or about the 23rd of September 2017 C.E., based on the Prophet Daniel’s Prophecy of there being 70 years between the Jewish Ceremony for the Formation of Israel {which was recognized by the U.N. on the 14th of May 1948 C.E.}, and the Return of Our Beloved and Blessed Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST after His Second Incarnation indicated by Rev. 12.1, as per my Interpretation of Rev. Chapter 12.
    And the Mahabharata will occur in the very Middle of it, around 3.5 Years from the 23rd of September 2017 C.E. It is commonly known as ARMAGEDDON.
    And the Wine & Holy Oil are the Viaticum and Extreme Unction for the Elect, One-Third of Mankind, soon to die as Martyrs in Our Beloved and Blessed Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST during The GREAT TRIBULATION OF THE CHRISTIANS AT THE HANDS OF THE FALLEN ANGELS, MUSLIMS, SATANISTS etc., due to begin shortly, on or about the 23rd of September 2017 C.E. Shalom & Amen.
    MARINE SALVAGE of this object for spectroscopic & complete analysis, would be possible as it probably lies on the ocean floor at a depth of between 100 metres to 200 metres, easily within the 100 Fathoms {200 Metres} Depth Contour, as per my recollection of the Marine Charts of this area of Sea in the Indian Ocean off Sri Lanka. So go for it, Salvage Teams !!!

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