Benefits to Communion on tongue

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ratio1 said:
Anyway let’s not have an argument. We just have to recognise every parish is different and different people have different preferences so it’s all good.
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Well quite. I don’t think I said anything that would lead anyone to think otherwise, have I? I was just a little taken aback at the suggestion that those receiving on the tongue should go last as I had never come across the idea and pondered aloud that it would need some thought if it would work in my church.
 
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was just a little taken aback at the suggestion that those receiving on the tongue should go last as I had never come across the idea and pondered aloud that it would need some thought if it would work in my church.
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Sounds like a sly way to ensure that everyone stops the practice of receiving on the tongue.

I don’t like it.

I always receive on the tongue - have only done in hand a couple times just to try it that way.
 
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Part and parcel of Catholicism… Liturgical logistics can be weird
 
The Church administered the Eucharist like this for ages… Through the black plauge, the influenza epidemic of 1918… There, AFAIK, has been no proof of a difference in hygenicism in CITH and COTT
 
Joy, I just read your last blog post linked on your profile, and it was beautiful! I am very happy you are home with us.
 
I think you are right. To suggest that anyone should have wait, or go to the end of the line is ridiculous. People need to stop being such germaphobes. In the days before communion in the hand, no one ever complained about anyone catching anything. It’s nonsense spurred on by people with agendas.
 
IMO, the same groups who call those who reccieve Our Lord kneeling ‘disruptive’ and ‘pharasaical’. Utter and absurd screed.
 
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It doesnt seems matter to me… if its ok for you to take it with hands take it if its ok for you to put it in your tongue…then let it be…the point is that you have received HIM with all your heart ! jesus said take it … there is no regulation of how you gonna take it. Just make sure you that you really had confessed the sins .
 
Many people here accept that. There are some that argue vehemently for their preference as being “the” way, even though the Catholic Church says either is correct.
 
grt said:
The Church allows either the tongue or the hand.

Most US Catholics take Communion in the hand now, and it’s hard to be optimistic about this group either.
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Do you not see how uncharitable your comment is? Fortunately their salvation does not depend on your opinion.
 
Why are so many people inspecting the way others are receiving in their parish? Seems to betray some sort of insecurity or scrupulosity…

I receive the Eucharist and return to my pew and pray… the rest is for the birds…

Relative to the thread title ‘Benefits of receiving on the tongue’… the answer is the same as receiving in the hand… kneeling, standing, stirring, laying or otherwise.
 
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of course. I respect everybody’s opinions. I hope everyone does too.
 
For reference, the only reason I am aware of how others receive is because, as a new Catholic, it was a point of curiosity to me as I approached the moment of being able to receive myself, and I learn best by watching how something is done.

Plus, I do really love seeing other people going up that aisle, in all their variety, to hear the priest say “The Body of Christ” and actually meet with God. I find it tremendously uplifting, I don’t do it to appraise them.
 
There is none…people talk as though the priest is performing minor dental work on people. Opening one’s mouth doesn’t transmit flu or anything else. SNEEZING would, but that’s another issue.
 
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