How much sodium is in one of those communion wafers?
2007-05-06 10:42:24 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It depends on how much sodium exists in wheat flour and water. No salt or other ingredients can be added.
Just like the bread Jesus used during Passover at the Last Supper, the bread used in the Eucharist is unleavened.
The General Instruction of the Roman Missal, section 320 states:
The bread for celebrating the Eucharist must be made only from wheat, must be recently baked, and, according to the ancient tradition of the Latin Church, must be unleavened.
With love in Christ.
2007-05-06 14:55:09 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably none, but to be absolutely sure, ask the priest to check the ingredients on the label. Like the matzoh that it recalls, communion wafers are unleavened bread. When I was young, the main manufacturer of communion hosts in New York City was a matzoh baking company (probably Streit's) because they already had the protocol in place to create an unleavened product.
To make the wafers, the only ingredients necessary are flour and water. Some use vegetable oil or shortening. Salt is a possibility, but the main action of salt in the baking process is to get the gluten to adhere and trap gas bubbles in the loaf as they heat up and expand, making the bread rise, which defeats the goal of being unleavened.
P.S.. I'm a pagan who was brought up as an Orthodox Jew, but you can check me on Google, if you like.
2007-05-06 11:24:07 · answer #2 · answered by shulameet 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Other than the tiny amount of sodium found in natural wheat, and water ... none.
2007-05-06 14:36:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Licit wafers contain only wheat flour and water.
2007-05-06 10:46:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
How much sodium in wheat flour?
How much sodium in water?
Answer to both. . . NONE
2007-05-06 10:47:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely none.
They must be made ONLY from wheat flour and water....not a thing else added.
2007-05-08 16:08:56 · answer #6 · answered by Mommy_to_seven 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A subtle insult. Your pastor must be very proud. Interestingly, I don't think that's what Jesus would do.
2007-05-06 10:47:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know. I guess not a lot because whenever I eat it is very bland and with no flavor.
2007-05-06 10:46:03 · answer #8 · answered by cynical 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why do you care? It's the Body of Jesus Christ, so the nutrition facts shouldn't really matter.
2007-05-06 10:46:04 · answer #9 · answered by Atticus Finch 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Have no idea. It has never been a concern of mine.
2007-05-06 10:46:00 · answer #10 · answered by Shirley T 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋