Vegetarianism and Transubstantiation

Knight who says Meh

A question I oft ponder.
If you are a vegetarian for the whole range of reasons, ethical, dietary, health etc etc AND a practicing catholic are you breaking your rules by taking holy communion?

What say you...

Jen Pigs Fly

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Superbus

That's a lot of syllables for a thread title.

MagicMarker

The answer is clearly yes, unless you believe Jesus was a vegetable.

c_man

Another one for you OP, you know they have a different communion wafer for coeliacs. Just think about it for a minute.

Mrmoe

MagicMarker wrote: »

The answer is clearly yes, unless you believe Jesus was a vegetable.

That would be a turnip for the books.

Capt'n Midnight

Well JC was sentient and did express a will to be eaten so that would leave people off the hook


Also is it gluten free ?

Ghost Buster

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Well JC was sentient and did express a will to be eaten so that would leave people off the hook


Also is it gluten free ?

Ah. Kinda like the bovine creature in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe bred to want to be eaten... or is that 'bread , to want to be eaten......'

phasers

c_man wrote: »

Another one for you OP, you know they have a different communion wafer for coeliacs. Just think about it for a minute.

Why don't they just drink the wine instead? Also I heard that some churches use mi wadi instead of wine

Ghost Buster

phasers wrote: »

Why don't they just drink the wine instead? Also I heard that some churches use mi wadi instead of wine

Ah from the ancient translation "Take this all of you and dilute it 5/1 and drink it, matters it not whether it is Blackcurrant, Orange or Tropical . Do this in memory of me'.

biko

Easting the "body of Christ" is nothing to do with vegetarianism.
It's simply cannibalism and illegal last time I looked but of course religious people get away with anything.

jimthemental

Ghost Buster wrote: »

Ah from the ancient translation "Take this all of you and dilute it 5/1 and drink it, matters it not whether it is Blackcurrant, Orange or Tropical . Do this in memory of me'.

And then we'd have a new set of Protestants going around lording over everyone with their beautiful dentistry because they believe in the use of Toothkind.

Ellis Dee

Knight who says Meh wrote: »

A question I oft ponder.
If you are a vegetarian for the whole range of reasons, ethical, dietary, health etc etc AND a practicing catholic are you breaking your rules by taking holy communion?

What say you...

I bet you don't swallow when you give someone a blow job.:):):)

Capt'n Midnight

biko wrote: »

Easting the "body of Christ" is nothing to do with vegetarianism.
It's simply cannibalism and illegal last time I looked but of course religious people get away with anything.

Blasphemy
hope you have €25,000 hand.

ElaElaElano

Everyone knows there are no vegetarian Catholics, since all vegetarians are atheistic anarchist squatters with dreadlocks and grandiose ideology.

Regards,

Bill O'Reilly

Sauve

You do realise that there aren't actual bits of dead 2000 year old guy in there, right?

southcentralts

biko wrote: »

Easting the "body of Christ" is nothing to do with vegetarianism.
It's simply cannibalism and illegal last time I looked but of course religious people get away with anything.

So that is where this whole zombie craze lately begun.
no virus or voodoo but good old fashioned Christianity.
It eats the body or else it gets the hose again.

Nodin

Knight who says Meh wrote: »

A question I oft ponder.
If you are a vegetarian for the whole range of reasons, ethical, dietary, health etc etc AND a practicing catholic are you breaking your rules by taking holy communion?

What say you...

No, because you're just eating the living spirit of Jesus, apparently. Which is in no way weird.

The category of "vegetarian/non-vegetarian" doesn't apply well to the mystical-sacramental presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. We don't eat this in the same way that we would eat animal flesh as food.
There, we eat part of a dead creature. Here we are receiving a living person into ourselves, whole and entire, divine and human — Jesus as He is now, already risen from the dead. Jesus has conquered death by His Resurrection, and does not die again when we obey His command to eat His flesh and drink His blood. That act — shocking as it is — is not destructive, and does not harm Jesus. There is no re-killing of Jesus which would offend some against the desire to harm no living, breathing creatures.
The consecrated Host is the Risen Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity that we are given as real Food and real Drink. The Presence is Real. The transubstantiation is real. The New Food and Drink is real, but we have to be careful not to be caught up an overly physicalistic interpretation here — as if we are chomping on Jesus of Nazareth.
The Eucharist connects both the Mystery of the Incarnation and the Paschal Mystery. Sometimes in emphasizing the Real Presence, we have simply emphasized the Incarnation, but the Eucharist cannot be "understood" without the Resurrection.

http://www.askacatholic.com/_webpostings/answers/2000_11NOV/2000NovBeingVegetarianAndTheEucharist.cfm

bnt

I wonder if the wafer box has a warning label on it? "Caution: May contain Nuts (after transubstantiation)"

smash

I heard that holy communion is in fact a slice of Jesus's penis!

Jester252

TBH I don't believe in Vegetarianism. Evolution is clear proof of this

Sauve

Jester252 wrote: »

TBH I don't believe in Vegetarianism. Evolution is clear proof of this

Do you mean that you don't believe that it happens?
Or that you don't agree with it?

MagicMarker

Jester252 wrote: »

TBH I don't believe in Vegetarianism. Evolution is clear proof of this

How is evolution clear proof that you don't believe in vegetarianism?

entropi

Jester252 wrote: »

TBH I don't believe in Vegetarianism. Evolution is clear proof of this

And here is the proof

Congratulations, you have just won the internet.

shopaholic01

smash wrote: »

I heard that holy communion is in fact a slice of Jesus's penis!

Much have been a big one then - they're still slicing it over 2000 year later:cool:

Humans eh!

MagicMarker wrote: »

How is evolution clear proof that you don't believe in vegetarianism?

Evotransubstanvegetariation,

Now that would be an ecumenical matter!
:pac: