DRACUT, Mass. -- The family of a Dracut girl is worried her illness could spoil her First Holy Communion.

NewsCenter 5's Rhondella Richardson reported Monday that at the Last Supper, according to the Bible, Jesus had wheat bread and grape wine. It's a tradition that 7-year-old Victoria Coyne learned in preparation for her First Holy Communion.

But Victoria needs to eat foods that are gluten-free because wheat has been proven to cause serious digestive problems.

"I'll get sick, and maybe I'll have to go to the hospital," Victoria said.

"What gluten products do is they damage the small intestine," said Victoria's mother, Stephanie Coyne.

The family thought they planned well. They found a rice-based Host. But the Rev. Paul Clifford, who christened Victoria, referenced church doctrine declaring that it's impossible to consecrate anything but wheat and wine.

"When we talked about rice hosts, definitely no way. That wasn't going to happen," said Victoria's father, Michael Coyne.

"In a church, of all places, that's where you should be accepted for who you are. And this is who she is. She is a 7-year-old with diabetes and Celiac disease and hypothyroidism," Stephanie Coyne said. "(The church allows) people to eat meat on Good Fridays, if March 17, St. Patrick's Day, fell on that day."

Victoria is injected with insulin six times a day to control her diabetes. The church proposed that Victoria sip a lower-alcohol wine for the Eucharist, but the sugar in the wine is also a health risk to the child.

"She doesn't want to be different. You know, there's enough difference in her life," Michael Coyne said.