How Communion bread is made in Germany
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- They are an indispensable element of the Eucharist: Communion wafers which are transformed into the body of Christ during Holy Mass. But how are these hosts made and what is the religious meaning behind them? As a Catholic herself, DW reporter Meggin Leigh visited a Communion bread bakery in southern Germany to witness the entire baking process, from the flour to the finished wafer.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:29 Production of Communion wafers
01:46 The taste of Sacred hosts
02:13 Origins of the tradition
03:36 Demand for Communion bread
04:26 Who’s allowed to eat it
05:14 Outro
CREDITS
Report: Meggin Leigh
Camera: Florian Mettke
Edit: Nicola Tietz
Supervising editor: Ruben Kalus
Thumbnail: picture-alliance/ ZB | Matthias Hieke
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For Catholics, this change is not merely “Symbolic”. During ordination, the Priest receives the power to literally turn ordinary Bread into the Body of Christ. During communion, Catholics receive the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ. According to Catholic teaching, only baptized Catholics in the state of grace can receive Holy Communion.
A better way to put is that the priest is in persona Christi or in person of Christ. That mean when the priest is consecrating the bread and wine . His a substitute for Christ, his acting and representing the person of Christ who makes himself present with his truly effective action.
Cannibalism. Celebration of death. Crucified body. Instead of celebrating empty grave. Am I the only one seeing something is wrong?
@@tggll To clarify, the priest is not substituting for Christ. He is more like an instrument through which Christ is working. Like an "avatar" in a sense.
Thank you for correcting this. It's a huge aspect of the religion, and I've actually talked to Catholics who also think it's just symbolic.
@@raul_jocson_ yes your right I’m talking in the sense that his acting in his place.
We Catholics believe that the Eucharist is literally the body of Christ after it has been concentrated.
Glory to God in the Sacrament!
Consecrated*
Yess yall do!!!
So You Catholics are all crazy 😂
Glory to God
Correction at 1:34: The Catholic Church does not allow the use of gluten-free hosts for the Mass. All hosts require at least a minute amount of gluten.
Further correction at 3:29: It is highly symbolic, but Catholics affirm that the consecrated hosts are no longer bread but truly the Body of Christ.
The bakery we visited also produces gluten-reduced and gluten-free hosts. And concerning the consecration: This is exactly what the priest in our video described :)
@@DWFoodand if you aren't Catholic or not in the state of grace you committed a sacrilege or it will serve you to your damnation.
@@DWFood I'd like to add that if a catholic can't eat glutten at all, he/she is more than welcome to receive communion by drinking consecrated wine during holy mass. However i think not all churches do this or readily available as communion bread.
@CybermanKing........ did you watch the entire video? Or hearing comprehension is not your strongest point?
It mentioned that gluten-free hosts are also made available.
@@createinmeacleanheartohgod6871 With absolute charity, something which you have not shown me, I will let you delete your comment or else be publicly shamed for your ignorance.
I love eating the cuttings from these. Nuns used to give my aunt the leftover wafer fragments from cutting the hosts when she used to work for an archdiocese.
For the majority Catholics here, rice is not sacramental but it is considered a offensive to waste this essential staple as it is still God's blessing. This traditional value has been drilled into us since childhood, so in a sense rice is semi-sacred, and it was to our animist ancestors and remains so for various Indigenous Peoples throughout our islands.
Wafers made in the Philippines use rice instead of wheat?
@@DCrypt1 No you misunderstand. We are absolutely forbidden to make hosts other than how it is shown in this video. Rice is considered a blessing from God and a basic food, so it is seen as sinful to waste it especially. Children are threatened with days in Purgatory for each waster grain, but that's superstition. The point is, rice has an elevated status in our culture but is not considered of the same sacramental value as the hosts made of wheat.
@@AI-hx3fx understood, thanks for clarifying.
I remember my alterboy days when the sacristy would give us the outer cuttings.
@@loverofthelostnarc I know some buy actual unconsecrated bread as a snack, but this can look scandalous, best not to do it.
In Poland and nearby countries, Opłatki are derivative but non-sacramental wafer often made at Christmas. Some versions now have flavours.
You should go to a Church of The East in Germany and ask them to describe to you how the priest prepares the communion bread by himself, he has to wake up very early in order to prepare for this Holy task with special prayers, there is a special oven dedicated to only bake the communion bread . It is a process which is done in a very solemn and respectful manner since the first century A.D. when the Assyrians (original people of what is today Iraq) embraced Christianity in their land Ashur (Assur) today called Iraq. The Assyrians call communion bread Qorbana Qadeesha (Holy Sacrifice)
in indonesia we call it 'Hosti' (which country also has similar vocab?). Catholic is minority in indonesia, but we still can do our holy mass here even though the number of churches especially catholic church are really limited. I never hear bakery who sells communion bread here. The last time I read somewhere, a catholic bookstore/publisher was the one who sell communion bread. Honestly I don't know where churches got their hosti here. Fellow catholic-indonesian, please CMIIW and fill my curiousity ^^'
it's from latin hostia, and hostia is exactly how it's called in Poland
If you ever be in Jogjakarta area, you can visit 'Susteran CB' in Jl. Affandi. They make this hosti bread in daily basis providing churches in the area..
There are some more in every dioceses..
In Papua New Guinea, we use the same name, Hostia.
Oh cool! Where I'm from we call the bread "Ōsthi" .
And in Kerala, India it’s called osthi
The local producers of Communion wafer in the Philippines would sell the run-off parts of the square wafer with caramel sugar and eaten like candy snacks. Nothing is wasted.😊
In Indonesia too, they even have spicy with chilli sauce coating, palm sugar coating.. 😋
Haw flakes? 😂 just kidding
I still don't know where to buy or find them. Ano b tawag dun? 😅
@@lucystephaniepropertiesSa shopee or Lazada.
@@OneDropIsAllItTakes Yeah you mentioned. I just haven't checked the locations. haha because I'm curious to see the actual production too.
Thank you so much, DW, for producing this look inside how Communion wafers are produced. As a Catholic, I receive these wafers every Sunday, and only valued them for their spiritual significance. It was interesting to see the thought process behind producing them, and to get a glimpse into the history of how one producer of European Communion wafers got their start.
You receive the body of Christ
That was the most mundane explanation presented in a informative Non-religious presentation of a definitive function of the church.
Thank you for making the video.
Thanks to DW for shedding light on an important topic for many people around the world.
The comments note that she is a Catholic. I don't know why someone used to communion would have said that the unconsecrated host tastes like a stale cookie. Although, there is no disrespect in that at all. Our Orthodox brethren sometimes use leavened bread soaked in the wine, and that is a totally different taste. Anglicans serve the host followed by the wine, but Catholic churches often do not serve the wine, But when she sniffed the host before putting it into her mouth, it seemed a bit strange to me. It should go directly into your mouth as soon as you pick it up.
Hmm weird because all Catholic Church I have been to recently serve the wine (blood). Oh well right
Presentation skills gap in this particular individual. Smelling the host and talk about ' stale cookie' in the presence of the manufacturer is 'bush league' journalism. Needs to improve.
Most of my youth I used to go to a Novus Ordo and we took communion in the hands and received the blood separately in a different chalice, and the whole congregation would put their lips on the same cup. I'm now much older and go to a TLM, they serve the Eucharist and wine not separately, nor soaked in wine on a spoon like the Orthodox Church does, the priest dips the Eucharist in the wine before placing it on our tongue, which I highly admire and personally I prefer more than taking it in the hand.
It may have looked like our reporter Meggin was smelling the host, but she actually paused for a moment before eating it.
@@DWFood Some individuals are just so quick to judge. They need Jesus Christ to change their judgemental attitude.
It is not just Holy. After transformation it is the most Holiest and Universal Wonder. To experience the presence of Christ in Holy Communion needs an invitation from his Heavenly Father. Once you experience him he starts living through you. They one transforms to Saints and Holy. That is the Invitation towards Holiness. A young teen Venerable Carlo Acutis was drawn to the Eucharistic and its Wonders at very young age. Always a wonder, the Truth, now and forever.
i thought islam was stupid, you guys look much worse
@@Aerotyler23 Catholics are rational people. Atheism is stupid, actually. The Catholic intellectual tradition is the richest, broadest, deepest, and longest-standing in the entire world, and perhaps in all of human history.
Why did the reporter go to Holy Mass when she said ? ' So can I taste this, is it allowed outside the Catholic church ? ' 1:45
One, she said it like, she had no knowledge about what happens during the holy mass and especially the consecration.
Two, if she said 'outside of the Catholic church ? '
Then we can assume that maybe she's not apart of the Catholic Church, otherwise why would she say those words.
Three, she call's ( Mass ) Christian services, why would she prefer to Christian services, instead of the real name Holy Mass.
Four, when she go's to the church she recives holy communion. The question i am asking, is how did the preist allow for a nocatholic to recive holy communion. That breaks the ( catechism of the Catholic church ) and all of the fundamental rules and laws.
Even when she recives holy communion in to her hands, she smell's it. 4:52
Now why would anyone do that ? .
The is a big problem in the catholic church.
Catholic preist's are not allowed to give out holy communion to nonbelivers aka noncatholics. a true catholic should guard the deposit of the faith, and stand for what is right according to the catholic faith and teaching.
this is a strugle for her, she already tastes God, may she repent, and become a true Catholic and respect the Holy Eucharist, true and real body and blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ our God and Lord. Only God knows her hearts. Lets pray for her conversion.
Our reporter is herself Catholic, as mentioned in the infobox of this video. We were referring to Christian church services, because sacred hosts are not just part of Catholicism. We were referring to the Holy Mass when we specifically described Catholic traditions and rules. And finally, it may have looked like our reporter Meggin was smelling the host, but she actually paused for a moment before eating it.
U right but a host consecrated by Catholic church could only be eaten by a Catholic and not people of other denominations or religions.@@DWFood
@@gigitony4170 That's true, and we didn't say otherwise ;)
@@DWFood just making sure there are no misunderstandings or misinterpretations, cheers❤.
For some reason the delivery of the story is a bit disrespectful.
Interesting. I don't see it that way.
I am catholic..Nice one DW.. ❤ from the philippines😊
It is nice knowing how the body of Christ is baked
Thanks for this video.
Great video, thanks 😊
This is also a tradition in the Lutheran church, and is served with a bit of wine. I think I once saw a video where the wafers were made using beeswax as the grease, which explains the glossiness and slightly sticky mouth feel. So flour, water, beeswax and nothing besides.
Proud to watch this all the way here from the Philippines, where Roman Catholic is the dominant Religion of the people. 🙂
We beleive God is truly present in the host after consecration
As the priest explained in the video :)
Because it's a remembrance of God's death and ressurection.
But it's also a reminder of how we live our lives, how we treat other people with love and respect regardless of relationship with them.
Jesus Christ is God Almighty in the flesh and if we have Jesus, we should love everyone regardless of who they are.
Where I'm from, beer is considered holy. It opens the gate way between the spirit world and the physical one.
Jesus Christ in front of me in 2014...proud Catholic Church... God bless you all... Phillipines 🇵🇭
God bless ❤️ from 🇮🇳'n Catholic.
Excellent reporting from a good Catholic lady. 👍👊
Interesting and informative! 😉
👍👌 very informative. .
Lutheran tradition also holds to the real presence of Christ's body and blood in the Eucharist
She could have avoided the "stale cookie" part. But that's her view.Forgiven. Someone else might have used "flavourless or neutral or bland"
We ortodoxe Christian’s we have an actual loaf of bread cut into tiny pieces.The bread is special and it’s in the shape of a square with the cross on top and on the four corners it has the words Is Hr Ni Ka
I was literally today years old when I learned that most Communion hosts were made at that factory in Germany.
Clarification: _Those_ hosts provided for that diocese, likely, were made in that factory in Germany. I can tell you that in my diocese, they're from the Precious Blood Sisters' convent. This is typically a work of the Precious Blood Sisters if they are active in your country or region.
I am not sure if that is how communion should be but I am glad you do the Fathers work
Beautiful
❤ thank you for Help the church with your work
I never thought that there is a centralized production.
🇻🇦 The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is the most beautiful and greatest worship that Catholics can offer to God. Christ founded only ONE Church in 33 AD, and only the Catholic Church can trace its roots back to Saint Peter in an unbroken line of papal succession. It was the Catholic Church that brought the message of Christ to men. It was the Catholic Church that civilized the world. For this, the Catholic Church deserves the gratitude of the world today. 💐💐💐
If she went to a Tridentine Mass the respect towards the Eucharist would’ve been much more evident.
Give us this day our daily bread.
Pontianak, Kalimantan Barat, Indonesia watch..😊😊😊
Not far from where I used to live there is a Catholic themed shop that sells these to the public. Mainly the ones that don't meet the production standards. I used to snack on these as a child.
cool!
I wanted to learn how they made in the old days.
I would really love to visit this place. The only reason is cause those wafers taste so GOOD!!!
i have been wondering how this was made since i was a child
I am catholic but I can't eat the communion bread because I haven't got communion from my school back in days I was too late to enter and sadly going back to home. Last year during Midnight mass before christmass Ikeep wondering why kids was too far younger than me eating those is like grade 2 something wasn't that a sin eating body of christ before having first communion? Filipino here.
I wish all wafers were produced with wheat from Europe and/or organic wheat. In the U.S. and Canada, wheat is heavily sprayed with glyphosate, an herbicidal chemical commonly known as Round-Up.
Amazing! I always thought that there was a massive factory in the heavens where pieces of Christ's body were magically reproduced, processed into communion wafers, sent to a heavenly warehouse/distribution center, and sent to all of the Catholic churches on Earth.
I wonder wether this bakery sells their communion bread to protestant communities as well.
is this available in Kerala i am from Palakkad can i have?
I kinda feel she was pressed into this
In Italy usually nuns make the communion bread
I used to partake them in new aspotle church.
Well, There's a lot of difference between a piece of Unleavened bread and a tiny wafer.
Whenever Christ used the words.. I am the bread of life, unless you eat the flesh of Son Of Man ..., I am the living bread that has come down from heaven - the word He uses for chewing (eating) in Greek it almost means to keep munching upon..( like those animals who go on munching for hours..).
For convenience sake and to facilitate large gatherings, the church has been using a thin film of wafer that dilutes in seconds once comes in contact with the tongue (it has spiritual significance).. however for a while sometimes it can be a good practice to have it as per the original pattern (apart from some retreat time 'pasch' celebration among private groups).
I think it calls for restoring the dignity it deserves too. (Just my personal perspective).
She was disrespectful calling it stale cookie and then smells it
It’s not sweet
What? I'm a Catholic, it's just a wafer when it's manufactured, it's not holy until the priest consecrates it through transubstantiation.
Is she wrong? When consecrated it is the most nourishing food you can receive but it doesn't taste all that good
Forgive them father for they not know what they do ❤
I think it's probably unconsecrated, but in case it is consecrated then yeah that is just irreverent
I only know of this communion wafers from Bram Stroker's Dracula, both book and movie.
It is not highly symbolic but transubstantiation takes place in which the bread becomes the True Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Our Lord himself. The bread becomes Jesus. Amen...
That's what the priest in the video explained. Thank your for further explanation.
no, I can assure you that the bread is made from flour, water, salt, yeast and not the body of a dead nazarite. it is symbolic.
@@Skyfoogle true, the idiocy of people in this day and age
Wonders why Catholics switched from Jewish Matzo cooked with fire to styrofoam -like partially steamed wafers. 🧐
3:37 question raised with great ambition, but answers disappointed her..
Since the formation of the church, leavened bread was used to make the Eucharist.
In the gospels, the word ARTOS (άρτος) is used for the bread used in the last supper. The Greek word ARTOS literally means LEAVENED BREAD.
The apostles used leavened bread, so did all the early Holy fathers.
Additionally, the Last Supper was held before the Hebrew Passover, in which it is customary for the Jews to eat only unleavened bread. This is evident as the high priests would not be allowed to make trials during passover. So Jesus was most likely arrested, tried and crucified before passover.
The church that was founded by Jesus Christ two thousand years ago is continued today only in the Eastern Orthodox Church, as it has not dared to alter anything handed down to us by the Holy fathers, the Holy disciples, the Holy Bible and Jesus Christ himself.
Amen and blessings from Lord Jesus.
DW says she is "Catholic" but her lack of reverence for the host makes me wonder. Because she totally sniffed the heck out of it.
Do you account for her sins?
Please note:
Receiving the Holy Host, The Eucharist isn’t “Symbolic” at all..!!!’ We are word for word Literally receiving the Body of Christ our Lord & Saviour 🙏🏽
Communion bread with Ajvar 😋
Jesus did it first ❤
This is the Christian version of the Matzah or the Passover un-leavened bread, as it was the food that Christ had in the Last Supper. That’s why this wafer must only contain Wheat flour and water. Leavening agent is forbidden.
@@inisipisTV 100%, God bless you
Amen 🙏🏼
How bread transformed into the body of Jesus and wine turned into blood of Jesus?is this not superstition
I wonder is the DW Reporter Meggin Leigh Roman Catholic? She received at Mass, but peculiarly she sniffed the Eucharist before she consumed it.
Germany geographically divided north part is Protestant south iscatholic
Cool to see how they were made. However, I wish the documentary truly highlighted that this is not simply a sacred bread or holy food. Yes in different religions there are sacred and holy foods but what sets the Eucharist apart is that on consecration it becomes the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ. It is not merely symbolic.
All food items cooked in a Hindu family is first offered to the deity in the house temple. This than becomes “Prasad” and is eaten by the entire family. Same with community temples
Interesting! Thanks for your comment and for watching!
This is not a food for the Gods or God per se, this is God himself , giving himself to his Children.
I find it a bit hard to see what is destined to be the Holy Sacrament is made in such a trivial manner, industrialised, packaged like we do with biscuits, devoid of sacred thought or prayer and so distant from the handmade bread that Jesus took in His holy hands. I say this because in my tradition one has to lead a holy life in order to be able to kneed the bread destined for consecration; a candle is lit and incense offerings with prayer accompanies the preparation. Not in a busy room , but in a silent room with devotion and fear. Blessed water is used. A seal, as was the Jewish and proto- Christian tradition, is used to stamp the top of the bread loaf. The loaf consists of two levels- symbolising the rising of Christ from the dead. This we prepare in utensils kept solely for this sacred devotional act. We solemnly take the bread to Church, with a list of names of our departed and a list for the living ( for health of mind and body). The body of Christ is taken from this loaf, from its centre, where the name of Christ is stamped. I hope devout Catholic nuns and monks have a tradition of making the host by hand and through prayer….
If it becomes literally the body of Christ is there blood apparent in the body as most flesh has blood? Or is the body bloodless? I had unleavened bread in Israel, not at all like this.
How disrespectful it is to say that the bread has to go first thru the priest, and assuming it has to arrive at church first.
i saw this in movie lady bird
its done inside the church by Monks or priest in Ethiopian Orthodox church. Not in a factory
God becomes bread. The daily miracle of the incarnation of Christ in His sacrament to sustain his people. Alleluia!
Wow. She speaks as if it is just another type of bread and even calls it a “stale cookie”. Highly disrespectful. I bet she wouldn’t talk like this if it were a documentary of another religion. But it’s ok to disrespect the Catholic faith, the faith of so many Germans and an essential part of their culture and history.
She smelled what appeared to be a consecrated host, at Mass, and then received. 🤔
@@mitchvrGood catch. I wonder if the Mass was filmed before her interview with the priest who did not know that she wasn’t Catholic.
@@mitchvr It may have looked like our reporter Meggin was smelling the host, but she actually paused for a moment before eating it.
She said it about unconsecrated bread which is just a secluar wafer. And for her, it didn't have much taste. It wasn't her intention to be disrespectful in any way.
Do they taste good with salsa?
Its not allowed with salsa or any condiments
We Hindus partake food prepared inside the temple for the Gods and call it Prasad
Yes we do🙏Are u from india?
@@definitelynotamurderer602 yes,from Chennai,how about you
This is not a food for the Gods per se, this is God himself , giving himself to his Children.
@@user-us5gt1ug8h I'm from Hyderabad brother ❤️🙌
@@gigitony4170yes there's a difference,Prasad,when offered to the gods it's blessed and becomes divine and hence we consider ourselves as fortunate and blessed when it's served to us
This is not merely a bread on consecration it becomes the body of the Living God , Christ Himself , it is proven by authentic Eucharistic miracles worldwide and it has happened only in Holy Catholic Church ❤.Look it up and it will prove my statement.
I thought you have to believe the consecrated host is Christ Himself in the Eucharist if you want to receive communion.
MAY OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST PROTECT US ❤😊
they are not "wafers", and they do not "symbolize". Please be more respectful.
"Lord, Have Your way in Me, ...."
"Give us today our daily bread 🙏 ...."
eating god "god's in"
then goes to bathroom "god's out"
Think of it as a thumb drive and the Body and Blood, the Soul and Divinity of Christ Our Lord as the software.
you never chew the communion as the presenter did.
Reporter if you are not christian why you eat the body of christ at the church..? its only allowed to eat who baptised and did confession before the holy communion. otherwise you can buy it from bakery. this is disrespect to our religion.
Holy Eucharist----------------------------Catholics
Part taking of the Bread---- ---------Evangelicals, Baptists, Pentecostals and other denominations
Holy Communion-----------------------Protestants
2:50
A little wafer? What a disrespect!
I love t his...beats endless,war cry. When you have christ in you....your war cry. Stops...you find ways....together
This is not “Symbolic” at least for Orthodox and Catholic Christians
If it’s not symbolic then it’s just a wafer
Christ is King !
Please stop saying that the consecrated hosts are symbolic. They are the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Christ. Whoever say otherwise are blasphemous. If you do not believe so, conduct diligent research on Eucharistic miracles before making your conclusions.
So you believe it’s just a wafer? Or that you’re eating human flesh?
Because that’s a littoral interpretation, anything else is symbolic
Clearly that journalist was not a Catholic, she had no idea of what language to use, and yet she received Holy Communion. Sacrilegious. The priest didn’t do much better in explaining the reality of what happens at Mass. it all sounded completely Protestant.
Sorry it is mentioned in the Bible that he took a break and divided into pices and give to discipline it is not like this
Not Christian. Satanic. Doing this ritual is equal to saying Jesus did not succeed in His sacrifice for the remission of our sins. If Catholics were actually christian, they would call themselves christian but they care more for “mary” than the only begotten Son of the Most High. As if they don’t know the Only way to the Father in Heaven is through Jesus. It’s the ONLY way. The Way, the Truth and the Life.
Rom 10:9
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Don’t forget the thief on the cross next to Jesus at His moment of sacrifice.
Taste like foam.
In the Catholic Church, the change of the bread is called "transubstantiation", where the priest literally changes the host (with the authority of the Holy Spirit) into the actual body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus Christ.
This isn't symbolic, the consecrated host is *literally* Christ under the appearance of the host.
This is exactly what the priest in the video explained :) Thanks for your further explanation.
У нас Герани в сараях собирают, и что такого
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Dear fellow-Catholics: yes, the Host (of the program, not the sacrificial victim of the Mass) does a terrible job of presenting a Catholic understanding of the Sacrament-negligently so, I would argue, for a video purporting to share the production of altar bread, in a primarily Catholic context-it is not inaccurate to say that the role of the Sacred Host is "highly symbolic." The Eucharistic celebration is, in fact, the highest of symbols, just as it is simultaneously the highest of realities.
I so glad my church doesn’t buy from these devils and make it by hand
Why is DW tv so biased towards Christianity?