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Re: Eucharist fast question
« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2024, 07:27:42 AM »
Quote from: Änσnymσus on November 19, 2024, 07:09:43 PM

Vitamin D (unless it is really and properly a medicine - doctor prescribed) would not apply.

Some medicines, even those used to address genuine infirmities, are over-the-counter and thus not prescribed by a doctor (or rather, it doesn't take a doctor's prescription to acquire them).

I take a whole host of supplements on a daily basis to stay healthy, but no doctor prescribes these.
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Re: Eucharist fast question
« Reply #6 on: November 21, 2024, 08:10:11 AM »
I know we are not supposed to "wing" it and make up our own rules, but I do the overnight fast for food, but I do the three hour fast for coffee ( with milk or cream). Our Mass is at 12noon on Sundays and we travel and hour to get there.
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Re: Eucharist fast question
« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2024, 08:10:57 AM »
Quote from: Änσnymσus on November 21, 2024, 08:10:11 AM
I know we are not supposed to "wing" it and make up our own rules, but I do the overnight fast for food, but I do the three hour fast for coffee ( with milk or cream). Our Mass is at 12noon on Sundays and we travel and hour to get there. I'm trying to just have black coffee but not there yet.
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Re: Eucharist fast question
« Reply #8 on: November 21, 2024, 08:36:39 AM »
Before the rule change, my mother rarely if ever went to Communion because she was underweight and somewhat sickly due to poverty and insufficient medical care.  She’d get dehydrated and pass out.  In those days, most Catholics did not go to Communion every Sunday.  Priests didn’t hand out dispensations easily. More than once, she passed out during Mass to the point where she was made to sit in the children’s pews on the outer aisle in back. (Children all went to 9:00 Mass and sat together, supervised by the sisters.)  
 
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