By Leah MarieAnn Klett, Assistant Editor
The Church of England has officially affirmed that non-alcoholic wine and gluten-free bread can’t be aged as substitutes when taking communion after clergy requested to total the “injustice” to those unable to eat wheat flour or alcohol.
Ahead of the Common Synod taking scheme in London this week, the denomination’s leadership reiterated that the bread aged in the sacrament should serene be made of wheat flour, and wine should serene be the fermented juice of the grape in expose to be consecrated, The Telegraph reported.
While capability selections made of rice or potato flour are not approved, wheat flour can be processed to grab away most gluten, and alcohol can be extracted after fermentation, though some residue stays, fixed with the documents.
The CofE’s loyal canon law states that the bread aged for communion should be of the “handiest and purest wheat flour that conveniently might perhaps perhaps well very effectively be gotten, and the wine the fermented juice of the grape, lawful and wholesome.”
The announcement came after the Rev. Canon Alice Kemp wondered whether the CofE might perhaps perhaps well enable gluten-free and alcohol-free factors to be aged.
“Can consideration be given to enable the suitable bid of gluten-free and alcohol-free factors on the Eucharist to grab away the injustice of this exclusion?” she requested, fixed with The Guardian.
“Every monks and congregants who’re unable to eat gluten and/or alcohol are compelled to uncover in a single kind most effective (i.e., bread or wine) or might perhaps perhaps well very effectively be prohibited from receiving every factors if they are unable to eat every gluten and alcohol.”
Michael Ipgrave, the bishop of Lichfield and chair of the church’s liturgical commission, acknowledged changing the foundations would overturn two loyal stances of the CofE.
“First, that bread made with wheat and the fermented juice of the grape are the factors to be consecrated in Holy communion; and 2d, that receiving Holy communion in a single kind in a case of necessity will not be an ‘exclusion’ but fleshy participation in the sacrament, as in most cases practiced in the communion of the ill, or with kids,” Ipgrave acknowledged.
“Indeed, even believers who can’t physically uncover the sacrament are to be assured that they are partakers by faith of the body and blood of Christ, and of the advantages he conveys to us by them,” he added.
communion is one of Christianity’s central sacraments, with bread and wine symbolizing the body and blood of Christ. Roman Catholics and Lutherans own the bread and wine served on the Eucharist are converted into the body and blood of Christ through a activity diagnosed as transubstantiation.
The Roman Catholic Church officially outlawed the bid of gluten-free bread for communion in 2017, though the Vatican has decreed that it might probably perhaps serene be made of genetically modified organisms.
“The bread aged in the celebration of the Most Holy Eucharistic Sacrifice should serene be unleavened, purely of wheat, and never too long ago made so as that there is no risk of decomposition,” Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Fancy and the Sacraments, wrote on the time, the BBC reported.
“It follows attributable to this indisputable reality that bread made of another substance, even if it is grain, or if it is blended with another substance diversified from wheat to such an extent that it might perhaps well perhaps perhaps not steadily be belief to be wheat bread, would not describe exact topic for confecting the Sacrifice and the Eucharistic Sacrament.”
This week’s Common Synod marks the critical meeting since the Rt. Rev. Justin Welby resigned as archbishop of Canterbury in November 2024. His resignation came following experiences he had failed to promptly alert police about serial abuse by a volunteer at Christian summer camps.
The identical inquiry led to investigations of more CofE officers in connection with identical allegations.
The Most Rev. Stephen Cottrell, the archbishop of York, who’s performing in Welby’s scheme, will bring the opening deal with in London. Cottrell has additionally confronted calls to resign over the CofE’s handling of safeguarding failures.
The denomination has confronted a sharp decline in belief amongst Anglicans after the spate of scandals; the CofE’s favorability ranking dropped to 25% in a Feb. 2–3 YouGov watch of adults in England, Scotland and Wales, in contrast to 32% in November of ultimate twelve months. Unsuitable views rose from 39% in November to now 49%.
Leah M. Klett is a reporter for The Christian Post. She will be able to be reached at: leah.klett@christianpost.com
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