Malleus: There is a saying - a Picture is worth a Thousand words. When one attends a TLM for , say a month and then One attends an OF for the same amount of time - and then by observation can that person then form an opinion? Of course they can. There is wisdom in your observations. And it is because of what you are seeing - that you are drawn to the TLM. Many of us are. And if you take the time to understand this rite fully - it only gets better.
Seems to me that the hosts were thinner pre-V2 and they would dissolve on the tongue. The hosts today are thicker. I would not want someone choking on a host due to being afraid to chew it.
It was in the OP… quote " When Communion comes people go up, get the Body (in the hand), and walk away chewing on it " unquote. So your saying that the thread deteriorated before it even got off the ground? I think it deserved a response.
Can you imagine it, the very first time, Jesus and the apostles sitting down, bickering among each other as to how the bread and wine should be shared?? Honestly, the spirit of this one is entirely lost with this debate.
That is a truly spot-on post.
Lol…Im just suprised how my observation and questions seem to have been twisted everyway imaginable.
Always keep questing, in or out of Rcia, doesn’t matter, the more you know “why” along the faith, the better, for you never know when someone from the outside may question you, and not knowing is going to be a poor witness.
If our communion experience can even be a tenth as somber and serious…
I second that
I agree In the course of this thread I’ve been accused of being a modernist which I’m not (whether he/she didn’t quite mean it in that way or not), and I think I was accused of calling the OP judgemental. OP wanted to understand the process by judging it; NOT the people.I second that
It seems that you cannot even make reasonable observations on here without getting flamed. It is getting to the point where it is not worth posting anymore.
Seeing this thread deteriorate here, don’t be alarmed when the moderator locks the thread.
Remember folks what Paul talks about with boasting, and how it’s utterly counterproductive, how he interjects with them, telling them that if they want to boast, let them compare themselves to him, how they all fall short in his example if they go down that route.
With my relatives, I try to convey this same thing, none of them go to church, and they started to take offense with me, seeing how hard core I am into this, thinking I was thinking of a comparison, when clearly I tell them, it’s not about that at all, simply get a prayer life started and going, we all area along different spiritual levels, stronger in some areas, weaker in other, and not to make comparisons.We have too many that think well, you must be doing it this way or it’s wrong, others saying it doesn’t matter, it’s all good, yet as an earlier poster stated, we do not know what’s in the heart of the individual after receiving communion, so cannot make any assumptions.
I temper this with knowing, it’s often necessary to go with the flow of sorts, where how it’s received, even though we all have options within it for individual acceptance, the bottom line is,*** “we receive our Lord”, ***and this is what counts so much more then any formality that’s in place, and trust me, how we accept it now will itself change yet again, and again, and again, fluctuating between the different manners upon reception of it all. Personally, I’d like to see other ways of doing it as well, such as it would be cool to have a special mass where we receive the body and blood in the same exact manner as Jesus did with the apostles, passing the cup and the bread, hand to hand, sitting at the table, in the same manner as the original offering., but I’m sure, that’s for a future date some time. I agree, this would be cool!!
The only quam I have with others receiving it, and I’m sure all will agree with me, are those that "dine and dash", leaving mass before it’s ended after receiving communion, those individuals, unless they have some emergency, or their schedules absolutely dictate, not being able to stick around, are the ones in error.
Well, there actually is nothing wrong with it. It was a pious misconception that a lot of people were taught, but there were never any rules against it whatsover.
Someone pointed out on another thread that the word Jesus used was the usual one for consuming meat, bread etc. and could even be translated as ‘gnaw’.