BRIELLE, N.J. - An 8-year-old girl who suffers from a rare digestive disorder and cannot eat wheat has had her first Holy Communion declared invalid because the wafer contained no wheat, violating Roman Catholic doctrine.
Yahoo! News - Church Says Girl's Communion Not Valid
***I actually read this article a few days ago and ever since then have tried to arrange the words just right in my mind of how to draw out on paper of how utterly *ridiculous* this situation is. Here you have this girl who is suffering from a disorder that can easily be made worse by the traditional communion "standards" of her Roman Catholic Church and they're (the Roman Catholic Church) are more concerned about their senseless rhetoric and dogma than the health and well being of their followers. Not allowing her to substitute a simple wheat waffer for a rice one (or grape juice for an alcoholic) because it is - in their eyes - "invalid", is like telling me (and thousands of other Christians)...."Hey, since you got baptised in a baptistry behind a pulpit and *not* in an actual river then, your baptism is just not valid!". Give me a freakin' break!!! It is NOT the kind of waffer you eat nor the wine (or grape juice, for *that* matter) that you drink that makes a communion "valid" nor is it what God cares about but only the attitude of the heart that speaks the truth to Christ and in the end, *that* is what truely draws your spirit to His....****
Someone should hand the pope a "What Would Jesus Do?" bracelet bwuahahaha. This is just absurd. And they wonder why people are being turned off to Catholicism.
Posted by: skywalker at August 23, 2004 04:49 PM"Someone should hand the pope a "What Would Jesus Do?" bracelet..."
haha...yes, but the words would have to be written in the original/late Hebrew language in order for the bracelet to be considerd valid.
Posted by: mrs. muddy at August 23, 2004 09:57 PM