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Posted by: ConcernedCitizen 2.0 ( )
Date: January 15, 2019 07:06PM
Don't touch my damn communion wafer!!....??

...I am currently in NM. I did a meetup with a Catholic friend from Sandia who said he was told not to accept the wafer unless the Priest had rubber gloves on. Has anyone heard about more about this? Sounds absurd.


https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2019-01-15/catholics-encouraged-to-avoid-touching-communion-curtailed-as-flu-spreads

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Posted by: Kathleen ( )
Date: January 15, 2019 08:15PM
Re: Don't touch my damn communion wafer!!....??

I've wondered that a lot in SM--especially when some cootie-bearing individual drinks out of a sacrament cup and puts it back in the tray.

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Posted by: ConcernedCitizen 2.0 ( )
Date: January 15, 2019 08:51PM
Re: Don't touch my damn communion wafer!!....??

...you mean, a pimply-faced adolescent has just handled, or manipulated his acne-ridden face prior to his preparing the Sacrament?..............yumm!!

..."please sir, may I have another?"

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Posted by: angela ( )
Date: January 15, 2019 10:34PM
Re: Don't touch my damn communion wafer!!....??

Never heard this about the wafer during flu season. I have heard for those parishes that also use wine as part of communion, the suspension of the chalice while the flue was around

Read the link. No mention of priest wearing gloves while distributing communion.

Not sure why your friend embellished that



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/15/2019 10:36PM by angela.

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Posted by: ziller ( )
Date: January 15, 2019 11:36PM
Re: absurd ~

ziller can confirm this thred ~

ziller am rubber glove ~

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Posted by: Dave the Atheist ( )
Date: January 15, 2019 11:43PM
Re: Don't touch my damn communion wafer!!....??

The roman cathoholic church is now buying thousands of used rectal exam gloves.

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Posted by: Elder Berry ( )
Date: January 16, 2019 03:31PM
Re: Don't touch my damn communion wafer!!....??

And used condoms for use with a special order of birthing nuns.

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Posted by: Levi ( )
Date: January 16, 2019 12:38AM
Re: Don't touch my damn communion wafer!!....??

a fondled christ crispy

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Posted by: tumwater ( )
Date: January 16, 2019 12:39AM
Re: Don't touch my damn communion wafer!!....??

Back at the last major flu outbreak, 10-15 years ago, the priest would not place the wafer on a person's tongue but in their hand. Also wine from the chalice was suspended for a time.

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Posted by: ificouldhietokolob ( )
Date: January 16, 2019 03:04PM
Re: Don't touch my damn communion wafer!!....??

So the host and wine magically trans-combobulating into the actual body and blood of jesus doesn't kill the flu virus in the process?

Gee, who woulda thunk!

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Posted by: caffiend ( )
Date: January 16, 2019 03:08PM
What's this thread, "Leggo my Eggo?"

The simple thing is to deliver the wafer (or bread fragment) from one basket, and have the communicant* dip it into the wine vessel. Is this too complicated for a local ecclesiastic?

*Or Communist, if it's a "Liberation Theology" sect.

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