Wedding Communion

Effects

I have to go to a Catholic wedding in a few weeks. It's been a while since I've been to a Catholic Mass. Since then I have become a vegetarian. Do I need to ask the bride/groom to organise a vegetarian communion for me or do I contact the church? Would I be ok to not say anything until the day and just mention it to the Priest or alter boy or something?

hames

Since this joke reached its height in the middle of the 20th century and had, before that, been so widely and repeatedly been made, I can only assume that you could not possibly have intended that as a joke.

In which case, fear not. The sub-atomic particles of the level of the electron microscope and below will confirm that what you are consuming remains scientifically as bread and wine.

Transubstantiation refers to the substantia panis et vini - that is to say, the basic, true reality of these offerings, and not to say the technical subatomic nature, the latter of which is un-changed.

For more information please refer to google and the ontological nature of transubstantiation.

mdebets

Actually wine can be non-vegetarian, dependent on which fining agents are used.
However, I have never heard of a church offering different wines for the Eucharist.
You could ask the priest on the day, but I doubt he might know, as most of the wines don't specify if they are vegetarian or not.

Peregrinus

You can get vegetarian wines (not fined with isinglass) and even vegan wines (not fined with isinglass or with egg whites) but there's no guarantee that the communion wine used in any particular church is either vegan or vegetarian and, wine labelling regulations being what they are, it may be difficult to find out with certainty. For that reason vegans and vegetarians tend to take communion under one species only.

There is no problem with communion hosts; they are acceptable to both vegetarians and vegans, and - assuming orthodox Catholic beliefs - consecration does not change this.

lmaopml

Also, if you are terribly worried about Communion, please remember that there is absolutely no pressure on you to get up out of your seat during this time at the wedding - actually if you don't go regular, or you aren't Catholic at all, it's best that you don't receive. No need to tell the Bride and Groom or even the Priest, just stay sitting, nobody will even notice you.

totus tuus

Also it's sacrilege to receive Holy Communion while in the state Mortal Sin, and missing Mass without valid reason is a Mortal Sin.

Effects

I'm not a Catholic. I want to take the Communion anyway just to see what it's all about and how it tastes.

lmaopml

Effects wrote: »

I'm not a Catholic. I want to take the Communion anyway just to see what it's all about and how it tastes.

You can of course choose to take Communion knowing that you aren't Catholic, and perhaps knowing that the couple who invited you to their wedding ARE Catholic and choose to make the wedding about yourself and your tastes, or you could decide just to stay sitting in your seat and try to demonstrate some self control. That will be up to yourself, and on your own shoulders to make the decision.

totus tuus

Effects wrote: »

I'm not a Catholic. I want to take the Communion anyway just to see what it's all about and how it tastes.

I would read the following article in regards Holy Communion!

Another reason that many non-Catholics may not ordinarily receive Communion is for their own protection, since many reject the doctrine of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Scripture warns that it is very dangerous for one not believing in the Real Presence to receive Communion: "For any one who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself. That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died" (1 Cor. 11:29–30).

http://www.catholic.com/tracts/who-can-receive-communion

Effects

Thanks for the information. I don't believe any of the stories in the bible so they can't affect me. It won't make any difference to anyone else there if I take communion as I won't be making my intentions clear to others.

Tea 1000

Effects wrote: »

Thanks for the information. I don't believe any of the stories in the bible so they can't affect me. It won't make any difference to anyone else there if I take communion as I won't be making my intentions clear to others.

Minute traces of animal can't affect you either...! So don't be worrying about the horsemeat getting everywhere these days.
Are we done trolling?

im invisible

Bride and groom probably only having a church wedding to keep the (grand)parents happy anyway, watch it doesn't get stuck to the roof of your mouth OP

jimd2

Effects wrote: »

Thanks for the information. I don't believe any of the stories in the bible so they can't affect me. It won't make any difference to anyone else there if I take communion as I won't be making my intentions clear to others.

So why were you worried about the effect on your vegetarian diet? Or are you actually a vegetarian at all(not that I care anyway)?

If you are going to be a troll at least try to be a reasonably intelligent one.

jimd2

im invisible wrote: »

Bride and groom probably only having a church wedding to keep the (grand)parents happy anyway, watch it doesn't get stuck to the roof of your mouth OP

And do you know the bride and groom?

im invisible

aw we go way back.....


much easier to crash a funeral i suppose, just say you're a friend of the corpse

Benny_Cake

No purpose is served by leaving this open - closing.