maike
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I went to a nieces first communion a while ago at her catholic church and one thing caught my eye.
As people were up the front taking communion some only received the wafer and passed on the wine.
I asked a few people about it and they said it was because people were concerned about catching Meningococcal Disease (a form of bacterial meningitis) that has killed and maimed a few people here over the last few years.
Now I was under the impression that the catholic faith believe that the wafer and wine turn into the actual body and blood of Christ. If I am not mistaken here, how could bacteria survive in the blood of a deity. Surely the blood of the reserected Christ would be free of any inperfections ???
If these people don't have the faith to beleive in the act of communion why do they partake in it and why do the priests allow such obvious acts of disbelief in the Catholic faith ??
As people were up the front taking communion some only received the wafer and passed on the wine.
I asked a few people about it and they said it was because people were concerned about catching Meningococcal Disease (a form of bacterial meningitis) that has killed and maimed a few people here over the last few years.
Now I was under the impression that the catholic faith believe that the wafer and wine turn into the actual body and blood of Christ. If I am not mistaken here, how could bacteria survive in the blood of a deity. Surely the blood of the reserected Christ would be free of any inperfections ???
If these people don't have the faith to beleive in the act of communion why do they partake in it and why do the priests allow such obvious acts of disbelief in the Catholic faith ??