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Traditional Catholic Faith => Catholic Living in the Modern World => Topic started by: SeanJohnson on November 27, 2023, 04:25:37 PM

Title: Years of Invalid Masses
Post by: SeanJohnson on November 27, 2023, 04:25:37 PM
Apparently a Church was using and disseminating this invalid recipe for Communion for years:

Excerpt from a New Liturgical Movement article: https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2023/11/years-of-invalid-honeycake-masses.html

"I was thinking about all this recently when a reader sent me a recipe that was used in the ’90s at his wife’s childhood parish for “baking the Mass bread.” One glance at this recipe makes it apparent that the parish in question did not, in fact, offer Mass for years due to invalid matter. The reader’s wife was, needless to say, very upset to find out, years after the fact, that her “First Communion” wasn’t actually her first, because there was no Communion there."

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Title: Re: Years of Invalid Masses
Post by: Quo vadis Domine on November 27, 2023, 04:46:51 PM
Apparently a Church was using and disseminating this invalid recipe for Communion for years:

Excerpt from a New Liturgical Movement article: https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2023/11/years-of-invalid-honeycake-masses.html

"I was thinking about all this recently when a reader sent me a recipe that was used in the ’90s at his wife’s childhood parish for “baking the Mass bread.” One glance at this recipe makes it apparent that the parish in question did not, in fact, offer Mass for years due to invalid matter. The reader’s wife was, needless to say, very upset to find out, years after the fact, that her “First Communion” wasn’t actually her first, because there was no Communion there."

(https://i.imgur.com/nZLIaaa.png)


They didn’t need the recipe to make it invalid. :laugh1:
Title: Re: Years of Invalid Masses
Post by: Ladislaus on November 28, 2023, 07:54:02 AM
They didn’t need the recipe to make it invalid. :laugh1:

THIS^^^.  But if they're eating bread, they might as well make it tasty.
Title: Re: Years of Invalid Masses
Post by: Quo vadis Domine on November 28, 2023, 04:00:54 PM
THIS^^^.  But if they're eating bread, they might as well make it tasty.

Now that is funny! :laugh1:
Title: Re: Years of Invalid Masses
Post by: OABrownson1876 on November 28, 2023, 04:26:31 PM
She would actually want her First Holy Communion to be traditional, so it worked out in the end it seems.  She was just caught up in the NO madness for a while. 
Title: Re: Years of Invalid Masses
Post by: Yeti on November 28, 2023, 06:26:56 PM
I don't think a small amount of honey added to the batter would make it invalid. If it still tastes like bread, it would be valid. Oroweat has made a kind of bread that has a small amount of honey in it called Honey Wheat Berry Bread (https://www.safeway.com/shop/product-details.196050890.html), and I think that would be valid since it's called bread and is considered bread by anyone.

Definitely gravely illicit, though!! :trollface:

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Oh, wait, now I get it. You mean it was invalid due to defective Holy Orders on the part of the minister and also the new mass being invalid due to the form being recited as a historical event rather than taking place here and now, and because of the missing "mysterium fidei". Silly me! :laugh1:
Title: Re: Years of Invalid Masses
Post by: SimpleMan on November 28, 2023, 07:05:32 PM
I don't think a small amount of honey added to the batter would make it invalid. If it still tastes like bread, it would be valid. Oroweat has made a kind of bread that has a small amount of honey in it called Honey Wheat Berry Bread (https://www.safeway.com/shop/product-details.196050890.html), and I think that would be valid since it's called bread and is considered bread by anyone.

Definitely gravely illicit, though!! :trollface:

.......

Oh, wait, now I get it. You mean it was invalid due to defective Holy Orders on the part of the minister and also the new mass being invalid due to the form being recited as a historical event rather than taking place here and now, and because of the missing "mysterium fidei". Silly me! :laugh1:

I'd be interested to know, more as a thought exercise than anything else, how much of something other than wheaten flour would have to be used, to render the Sacred Species invalid.  Assuming a pound of dough (or whatever you call it when eucharistic hosts are being made), a half-teaspoon of honey?  Salt?  Oil?  A quarter-teaspoon?  An eighth-teaspoon?  And what of doubtful validity versus certain invalidity?

At that point, it starts being a sorites exercise, viz. "how many grains of sand does it take to make a heap of sand?".

Keep in mind that when a drop or two of water are added to the chalice, the wine does not cease to be wine.
Title: Re: Years of Invalid Masses
Post by: TheRealMcCoy on November 28, 2023, 07:17:24 PM
I don't think a small amount of honey added to the batter would make it invalid. If it still tastes like bread, it would be valid. Oroweat has made a kind of bread that has a small amount of honey in it called Honey Wheat Berry Bread (https://www.safeway.com/shop/product-details.196050890.html), and I think that would be valid since it's called bread and is considered bread by anyone.

Definitely gravely illicit, though!! :trollface:

.......

Oh, wait, now I get it. You mean it was invalid due to defective Holy Orders on the part of the minister and also the new mass being invalid due to the form being recited as a historical event rather than taking place here and now, and because of the missing "mysterium fidei". Silly me! :laugh1:
According to Canon Law any ingredient other than wheat invalidates the bread. Amounts are irrelevant.