Don't take communion or you could get the flu!
Now, I don’t believe the CDC has actually made any suggestion for Christians communing during the flu season to stay away from receiving the Eucharist, but that’s not stopping congregations and even Archdioceses from implementing policies to remove the blood of Christ from the lips of the faithful!
First of all, metallic surfaces do not transmit viruses or bacteria and particular metals like copper are well documented for their antimicrobial properties.
Secondly, those people who abstain from the Eucharist (and those who withdraw it) show what little faith they have in the sacraments. Such people, I’m assuming, regard the sacraments as something to be honored and done but that there is no real power behind them. I wonder why they receive the Eucharist at all! Is not the Eucharist for the healing of body and soul? I’m not suggesting that the Eucharist will cure you immediately of your ailment; you still need rest and fluids. But to stay away from the Eucharist for fear that you may contract or spread the flu shows a real distrust in God and His power as it is contained in the Eucharist.
It’s also incredibly egocentric. The thought that one person (or even two or three or more) could somehow contaminate the body and blood of Christ for others is absolutely rooted in anthropocentrism–that man is the center of all things, that man affects God’s will.
From the news reports, it seems that the Roman Catholics are the one who are leading the charge on this. Considering that the Roman Catholics for many years withheld the life-giving blood of the Lord from her faithful, this is just another reason for them to reinstitute that flawed Medieval practice. I’m sure some Lutheran, Episcopal, Methodist, Presbyterian and other denominations are also withholding out of the same (irrational) health fears.
However, I have never noticed any Orthodox Church every sanctioning such a move. It could possibly be that there was no press (only the Catholics and Episcopalians and liberal Lutherans get attention from the media, it seems), but I have never seen any directive from any Metropolitan or Bishop in any Orthodox jurisdiction in this country telling parishioners to abstain from the Eucharist.
If you attend a church (I’m only speaking to Orthodox here) where the priest says that sick people should abstain, then you should report that priest immediately to the bishop. Unless you are under penance and/or excommunication or you have not observed the prayer and fasting prior to receiving, the Eucharist is to be given to you for the sake of the healing of both soul and body. Because the faithful receive the Body and Blood from the spoon (which is metallic), you will not transmit nor receive the flu. I’m so sick of these stories and the seemingly faithless people who propagate them.
2013-01-15 20:47:40
Source: http://myorthodoxjourney.blogspot.com/2013/01/dont-take-communion-or-you-could-get-flu.html
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