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Originally posted by adduncan
This quote is very telling. The alternative was offered - MOM rejected it. The Church tried to help, Mom is making the issue here. The rest of the article shows how flexible the RCC is w/ medical issues.
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Okay, I missed the part where the girl was offered wine only as an alternative. Maybe the Church isn't that inflexible after all.
I was under the impression that she had been told that she MUST take the wafer for her first communion, and that the wafer MUST contain wheat, even though doing so would make her ill, and even though wine-only is a perfectly valid option for communion.
Poor little girl - she thought she'd gone through this rite of passage enabling her to partake in a sacrament central to Catholicism, and now she's been told "sorry kiddo, it doesn't count".
LOL @ the cinnamon raisin communion bread! What's next, challah?
