Communion hosts - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 07 Jul 2022 08:40:20 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Communion hosts - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Supposed miracle claim goes viral https://cathnews.co.nz/2022/07/07/miracle-claim-viral/ Thu, 07 Jul 2022 07:59:14 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=148930 A claim on Facebook that a miracle has occurred in a parish Church in Ireland has gone viral. After a host was dropped on the floor it was picked it up and placed it in a glass of water. After a while, it became covered with a blood-like substance. Read more

Supposed miracle claim goes viral... Read more]]> A claim on Facebook that a miracle has occurred in a parish Church in Ireland has gone viral.

After a host was dropped on the floor it was picked it up and placed it in a glass of water. After a while, it became covered with a blood-like substance. Read more

Supposed miracle claim goes viral]]> 148930 Coronavirus: Sales up for prepackaged Communion cups and wafers https://cathnews.co.nz/2020/03/16/coronavirus-prepackaged-communion/ Mon, 16 Mar 2020 07:20:28 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=125109 In light of concerns about the new coronavirus, churches are ordering boxes filled with hundreds of prepackaged Communion cups and wafers. Read more

Coronavirus: Sales up for prepackaged Communion cups and wafers... Read more]]> In light of concerns about the new coronavirus, churches are ordering boxes filled with hundreds of prepackaged Communion cups and wafers. Read more

Coronavirus: Sales up for prepackaged Communion cups and wafers]]> 125109 Artist uses stolen Communion hosts to send message https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/11/27/artist-uses-stolen-communion-hosts-to-send-message/ Thu, 26 Nov 2015 16:07:39 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=79303 A Spanish artist has stolen more than 240 consecrated hosts and has used them to spell out the word "pederasty" in Spanish in an artwork. Artist Abel Azcona stole the hosts by pretending to receive Communion at Mass. A private citizen removed the hosts from the artwork in an exhibition. But photos of the artwork Read more

Artist uses stolen Communion hosts to send message... Read more]]> A Spanish artist has stolen more than 240 consecrated hosts and has used them to spell out the word "pederasty" in Spanish in an artwork.

Artist Abel Azcona stole the hosts by pretending to receive Communion at Mass.

A private citizen removed the hosts from the artwork in an exhibition.

But photos of the artwork are still being displayed in a gallery.

The Christian Lawyers association in Spain has filed a lawsuit against Azcona and has told the Pamplona city council it would face legal action if the photos were not removed from city property by Thursday.

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Artist uses stolen Communion hosts to send message]]> 79303 Venezuela economy crisis means shortage of Communion hosts https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/08/18/venezuela-economy-crisis-means-shortage-of-communion-hosts/ Mon, 17 Aug 2015 19:11:30 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=75408

One of the effects of Venezuela's economic crisis is a shortage of unleavened wheat flour to make Communion hosts. The monthly production of hosts in the South American nation has fallen from 80,000 to 30,000 recently, the Catholic News Agency reported. Giovanni Luisio Mass, prior of the Order of Poor Knights of Christ of the Read more

Venezuela economy crisis means shortage of Communion hosts... Read more]]> One of the effects of Venezuela's economic crisis is a shortage of unleavened wheat flour to make Communion hosts.

The monthly production of hosts in the South American nation has fallen from 80,000 to 30,000 recently, the Catholic News Agency reported.

Giovanni Luisio Mass, prior of the Order of Poor Knights of Christ of the Temple of Jerusalem, told local media the drop has affected every parish in three Venezuelan states.

He added that only 1500 hosts can be sent to the parishes in the north of the country.

This is because there is no longer enough flour to make the 8000 hosts these parishes have always needed.

Several parishes, along with the local communities, have started their own searches for the flour needed for the hosts.

Shortages in Venezuela include food, toilet paper, medicines, auto parts, chocolate, oil, and clothes irons.

According to the Central Bank of Venezuela, food prices went up 92 per cent last year.

According to the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo, since 2003 the Venezuelan government has imposed price controls on 165 products, including cooking oil, soap, milk, flour, cereals, toilet paper , cleaning products, detergent, diapers, toothpaste and sugar.

The local currency has plummeted in value.

As a result, price-controlled commodities are affordable, but disappear from shelves in no time, often to be resold on the black market at market rates.

And the goods that are not price-controlled are unaffordable because of the devalued currency.

The government has instituted measures such as distributing tickets for supermarkets and placing digital fingerprint readers in stores to prevent people from exceeding the allotted amount of products they can buy.

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