Suppose you go to Mass, and you feel queasy. Later, after receiving Communion, you wind up getting sick.
What happens if you throw up before you have completely digested the Eucharist?
This isn't something I'd thought about before, but it has come up (if you'll pardon the expression) this evening.
Just curious...leave answers in the com boxes if you have them. Thanks in advance.
4 comments:
Sounds like a question for Ask Sister Mary Martha to me. Just passing the buck.
Do so on the earth, so that it is reabsorbed (remember that the sink in one's sacristy should drain directly onto the earth and not into the sewer system).
Better still would be to not receive communion when feeling queasy, so that this is a non-issue.
Hmmm...Hubby did not think he'd toss up dinner, and waited about 30 minutes after Mass ended. Hopefully, God won't hold it against him. (For the record, in the sixteen years that I've known him, there have been two nights where he's had bouts of vomitting. In the same time, he's called in sick two, perhaps three, times. So I don't think he thought he'd be sick. But he did so in the bathroom long after the sacristy would have been locked up for the night. Plus, it was a complicated situation, anyway. No further details on the illness, though. No need to gross people out. Ah, well.)
Thanks for the advice, though! I'll keep it in mind in the future.
I'm not sure I was clear in that comment above...Hubby said that he actually held back his really queasy stomach for nearly 40 minutes after receiving. I do think that if he knew he'd get sick like that, he probably would have skipped Communion.
Anyway, thank God that he is through it now, and he was feeling well enough to go back to work today. And, thank God I'm not sick, either!
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