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SHIPPING POLICY REGARDING LOW-GLUTEN BREADS
TO INDIVIDUALS OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC
In general, it is our policy to ship low-gluten breads to local parishes, religious orders or congregations, organizations with a
religious affliation (ie: hospitals etc) or to individual clergy. We do not to ship low-gluten breads directly to members of the
general public.
The reason for this is that in presenting individual wafers to the priest or placing them in a ciborium dedicated for low-gluten
breads before Mass for later consecration, the priest has no way of knowing whether the wafer being presented consitutes
valid matter as required by Canon Law and that the wafer is approved for use in the Catholic Liturgy.
It is important to understand that the use of invalid matter during the Catholic Liturgy invalidates the consecration and is a
serious issue for the both the priest and the individual.
However, we do offer a compromise.
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A member of the general public may place an order from our online store and prepay the order using their credit
card and PayPal’s secure online transaction server . However, that individual MUST provide a shipping address for
their local parish in the instructions/comments field available when placing the order. The order will then be shipped
directly to the parish, marked to the attention of the individual
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The individual may then pickup their order from the parish. We recommend that the box be opened and card
certifying the breads authenticity be given to the priest thus assuring him that the breads provide valid matter for the
Catholic Liturgy. The local parish and individual may then work out a process for continued use that is convenient to
them.
In this way, both the priest and the individual benefit and both are assured that the use of the breads conform to the
requirements for use in the Catholic Liturgy.
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COMING SOON ! - LOW GLUTEN TRAVEL PACKS FOR INDIVIDUALS