Are both species common where you live?

[Sirach2]

Yes, the parishes in my diocese offer reception under both species daily as well as Sunday. The Bishops in 2001 issued a statement that basically encouraged all to participate in this as a fuller sign.

1. The Council’s decision to restore Holy Communion under both kinds at the bishop’s discretion took expression in the first edition of the *Missale Romanum *and enjoys an even more generous application in the third typical edition of the Missale Romanum:
   Holy Communion has a more complete form as a sign when it is received under both kinds. For in this manner of reception a fuller sign of the Eucharistic banquet shines forth. Moreover there is a clearer expression of that will by which the new and everlasting covenant is ratified in the blood of the Lord and of the relationship of the Eucharistic banquet to the eschatological banquet in the Father’s kingdom.
   The *General Instruction *further states that “at the same time the faithful should be guided toward a desire to take part more intensely in a sacred rite in which the sign of the Eucharistic meal stands out more explicitly.”
2. The extension of the faculty for the distribution of Holy Communion under both kinds does not represent a change in the Church’s immemorial beliefs concerning the Holy Eucharist. Rather, today the Church finds it salutary to restore a practice, when appropriate, that for various reasons was not opportune when the Council of Trent was convened in 1545. But with the passing of time, and under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the reform of the Second Vatican Council has resulted in the restoration of a practice by which the faithful are again able to experience “a fuller sign of the Eucharistic banquet.”

 

[tradcathconvert]

99.9 % of the time I attend the EF. But it has been my experience when I do attend the OF in my area that communion is offered under both species.

 

[Sunbreak]

Yes, both species are given in most churches in my archdiocese. There are only 2 or 3 churches I can think of that only offer the one.

 

[jilly4ski]

I was thinking about communion in both species earlier and realized I’ve never been to a mass where only one was offered. I’ve been to most of the churches in my Archdiocese for mass and I’ve never seen one form only. I hear people on this forum talk about having the Cup on a limited basis and it seems so foreign to me. My own parish uses both forms every day and Sunday. In your church do they use both species? Do most of the parishes in your diocese or archdiocese use both species?

Never? Growing up, it we only had both on special feast days, Christmas, Easter, first communion, etc. And I am not that old. This would have been, even after I had received by first communion so through the mid 90s. I think it changed at that parish after they became more wealthy.

I was then at a parish in NY when the swine flu went through, and they limited the cup at that time as well.