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"I am truly amazed, and deeply sorrowful, when I hear priests preventing women from taking Communion while they have their monthly period or after childbirth, considering them sinful and holy. Sinful?! Unholy?! My God! After all that Christ did to make women holy and sanctified, as a member of His Body! In Christianity, she is considered a Church begetting children to Christ. So how can her infant when only eight days old, take Communion while she herself is deprived for forty days (or eighty days if the baby is a girl)? Is it more appropriate to return to the old covenant which has become so old and obsolete? This is to blaspheme against the baptism which has made a woman spiritually and physically holy. Has the priest not read in the Bible how the woman with the flow of blood touched Jesus, yet He did not forbid this but rather encouraged her, after healing her and forgiving her sin? How can this woman with the flow of blood touch Jesus Himself and yet the priest forbids a woman to take His Body and Blood? Shall we destroy what the Gospel and Christ build up and shall we choose to follow or re-impose the old covenant?" [Page 10].