So, my wife used to be Catholic.
She has Celiac's disease, and can't eat wheat.
So she's "allergic" (technically 'intolerant,' not allergic, which is rhetorically entertaining) to the host.
But if the host actually becomes the body of Jesus, we have a problem.
-Either she's co-incidentally allergic to Jesus as well as wheat,
or
-It's wheat, and not Jesus after all. Thoughts?
I guess you could worm out of this by saying the host is wheat for a short time before it becomes Jesus, but then again, she doesn't really react to wheat unless it's introduced to her digestive system.
And another question...do you poop the indigestible bits of Jesus out later? Or is he wholly soluble?
Sorry for this thread, but we just had a conversation where she expressed a desire to go to a Mass while we're in Poland, just to see it for cultural reasons, and this came up. And I must, of course, refer it to you all.
She has Celiac's disease, and can't eat wheat.
So she's "allergic" (technically 'intolerant,' not allergic, which is rhetorically entertaining) to the host.
But if the host actually becomes the body of Jesus, we have a problem.
-Either she's co-incidentally allergic to Jesus as well as wheat,
or
-It's wheat, and not Jesus after all. Thoughts?
I guess you could worm out of this by saying the host is wheat for a short time before it becomes Jesus, but then again, she doesn't really react to wheat unless it's introduced to her digestive system.
And another question...do you poop the indigestible bits of Jesus out later? Or is he wholly soluble?
Sorry for this thread, but we just had a conversation where she expressed a desire to go to a Mass while we're in Poland, just to see it for cultural reasons, and this came up. And I must, of course, refer it to you all.