Strict adherence to church doctrine…well, most of the time
A First Communion dream in doubt: the Roman Catholic Church holds firm to their requirement that Communion wafers contain wheat.
In 2001, the Boston Archdiocese told the family of a 5-year-old girl with celiac disease that when she took her First Communion, she could not substitute rice wafers for traditional communion wafers. Her family left the church and began practicing as Methodists.
Note: Cardinal Seán has granted a dispensation from the obligation of abstinence for all the faithful of the Archdiocese of Boston for Friday, March 17, 2006, the Feast of Saint Patrick, the Patron Saint of our Archdiocese.
First Communion going to cause you health problems? So sorry, but rules are rules. St. Patrick’s Day not the same without corned beef? Dig right in!
