If Salt Is Added To The Flour Does It Invalidate

[Resurrexi]

If salt is added to the water and flour used to make the host does transubstantiation still occur?

[cappie]

Regarding the matter of the holy Eucharist, the Sacred Congregation specifically stated, "Faithful to Christ’s example, the Church has constantly used bread and wine mixed with water to celebrate the Lord’s Supper. The bread for the celebration of the Eucharist, in accordance with the tradition of the whole Church, must be made solely of wheat, and, in accordance with the tradition proper to the Latin Church, it must be unleavened. ... No other ingredients are to be added to the wheaten flour and water. ... The wine for the Eucharistic celebration must be of ‘the fruit of the vine’ and be natural and genuine, that is to say not mixed with other substances"(No. 8). (These norms are repeated in Code of Canon Law. Nos. 924 and 926.)

[b]Therefore, if a congregation decided to use leavened bread or add salt, honey, sugar, molasses or any over additive to the bread to be offered at Mass in the Latin Rite, the sacrament would be invalidated, meaning the Eucharist is not confected.[/b] To insure the validity of the sacrament as well as to alleviate the burden for a parish to provide its own unleavened hosts, over the years communities of religious sisters, especially cloistered ones, or commercial companies supply the unleavened hosts for parishes for use at Mass.

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