In the Catholic Church you always have the option to receive communion in the form of wine so there is a fully gluten free option.
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What if you don't drink?
Then you can't be Catholic.
Then you drink mustum instead. (I don't know the English name, only the Latin one.)
Mustum is basically a young wine; it's allowed to start fermentation, but then the fermentation is quickly stopped, before it develops any meaningful amount of alcohol.
You can just skip it
Use the Michael Jackson defense and go "it's okay it's just Jesus Juice"
Speaking as someone who grew up in an Irish Catholic house it still blows my mind a huge building full of people went up and drank out of the same cup.
Did this all change after covid?
For awhile it was single serving things in weird little pre packages. Now it’s back to the cup which is fucking gross imo
Often churches which have the “common cup” use silver or gold chalices, which naturally have anti-microbial properties. They will also often turn the chalice after each user, and then wipe it with a cloth (sometimes soaked in strong alcohol) to cleanse it further.
For those who find this gross, many churches also offer individual cups.
There is a lot of variation here, some churches only do individual cups, some only do common cup.
Not all wine is gluten free
Some wines are fined with micro wheat, and sealing barrels with wheat paste is traditional. Not sure how much it adds up to, though. Other than that, wine is always gluten free, unless you’re counting barley wine.
Gluten is only foind in wheat and a few other grains. Wine by it's very definition has zero grain in it.
Can you name one that isn't?
You can buy rice crackers at the supermarket now. No need to go to church anymore.
so now you tell me
Celiac technically isn’t an allergy, but yes. Some denominations will give you a gluten free communion wafer. Catholicism, however, requires one that contains wheat although it’s possible to get a very low gluten option that probably won’t trigger a reaction.
Seems like a big risk if they fuck it up.
Yeah, hopefully it would be clearly labeled. I went to a Presbyterian church one time and at their communion, everyone else got wonderful looking artisan brown bread. They gave me this weird half-and-half cup with brown looking wine and this tiny 1 cm chip of theoretically gluten free cracker sealed on top. It was kinda interesting so I just kept it.
The actual sacrament you get is usually made with wheat so it probably has some gluten in it. Though I am sure there are gluten free options.
The guy himself? Might depend on how much bread he ate but I don't know enough about the nutritional facts of a human body to answer with certainty.
Which part of His body did you get? The spleen? A bit of intestine? One of the toes?
You drink his blood and eat his body... Vampirism and cannibalism. Way to go catholics.
(thanks Eddie)
It's only cannibalism if you are also a god. Otherwise its deitism?
There's an Abbot and Costello skit in there somewhere. "You're on a new diet?" "No I said deit."
It's only cannibalism if you are also a god. Otherwise its deitism?
Ah, but the Athanasian creed clearly teaches the doctrine of hypostatic union, that Jesus is fully god but also fully man.
Since he is fully man, eating his body would indeed be cannibalism. Don’t take away the most metal part of Christianity.
I think eating your god is more metal than just eating a human.
Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty."
That doesn't sound like a gluten-free loaf.
ETA: You could probably discuss it with a parish priest. Perhaps you could receive blessing, like Protestant attendees?
Its pure protein bro! /s
My mom us a retired Episcopalian priest. She said there are gluten-free wafers you can get if someone in the congregation needs them. She also said that it doesn't have to be a wafer, one of her priest buddies once consecrated a pancake to make a point that it doesn't matter what's being consecrated, it's all God's creation.
Note: I am not religious and do not hold these beliefs myself
Mom's priest buddy is my spirit animal. That's awesome.
https://www.winespectator.com/articles/is-wine-gluten-free Cool! Glad to be wrong. I thought there was something about gluten in wine, but i think i was conflating it and vegan wine. Thanks for the catch!