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Dave B.
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Dave B. asked in Society & CultureReligion & Spirituality · 5 years ago

Are Catholic vegetarians not allowed to receive the Sacrament, due to transubstantiation?

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Transubstantiation, if you don't know, is where the bread and wine are literally (not figuratively) transformed into Christ's flesh and blood upon consumption. Are vegetarian Catholics not allowed to do this, or do the dietary restrictions only apply to non-human animal products?

Serious question.

Update 2:

There seems to be some confusion. Transubstantiation is a belief that is official doctrine of the Catholic church, and is held as infallible. It involves the real, actual, literal changing of the bread and wine into real, actual, literal flesh and blood. It is not thought of as a placeholder, a substitution, a figure of speech, a reminder, symbolic, or in any other way anything other than actual flesh and actual blood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transubstantiation

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago
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    Catholics must receive communion at least once a year. Excusing yourself from this obligation is a serious matter. Given the accidents of the transubstantiated host remain unchanged only a silly vegetarian would neglect this annual duty.

    While some Christian impose vegetarianism as a Christian duty, Catholics never have. No Catholic in good standing may be refused the Eucharist when it is available to him.

  • Charles Veidt
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    Receiving communion is not the same as eating meat. Transubstantiation affects the *essence* of the bread and wine, not the physical material, which remains the matter of bread and wine. So yes, one can be vegetarian and still receive communion without issue.

  • Lim Yuan
    Lv 6
    5 years ago

    It's ok, Jesus, unlike animals, pardons and allows you to eat the flesh of him without it being a sin.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    5 years ago

    Can't make any sense of this. ARe you sure you don't realize your inability to be in adult company.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    not true

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