Cardinal Sarah: return to Communion directly on the tongue while kneeling

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I’ll follow the norms used by my parish, but I’d be happy to see a return to communion on the tongue while kneeling as a practiced norm. However, that said, what of receiving from the chalice? Same thing?
 
COTT evolved partially for greater symbolism (IMO, I think it’s kind of like a mamma bird feeding her children- We dont have to do anything- Jesus comes to us) and also to prevent defamation of the Eucharist- If it is taken in the hand, particles of Christ can be scattered. If done on the tounge, there is no possibility of that, since something (either a paten or ciboria) is held beneath the chin when it is done. Additionally, the Euchariat can be brought and preserved at one’s home for Adoration with permission from one’s bishop.
 
I’ve always understood the main reason is to reduce the chance of being dropped, and to keep crumbs from hitting the floor and being stepped on.
 
Any chance of Cardinal Sarah becoming a pope the next go round or is he too old?
 
I have been receiving in my hand for nearly 40 years.
I have never had a crumb, even receiving a part of a host form the larger on fractioned by the priest.

Maybe at one time this was a concern, but with the mass-produced hosts most US parishes use, crumbs are not an issue.
 
IMO, better to be safe than sorry.
And again, I would like to see more COTT/K reception, but I don’t want to force people- that should be a personal choice.
 
CilladeRoma said:
I have been receiving in my hand for nearly 40 years.
I have never had a crumb, even receiving a part of a host form the larger on fractioned by the priest.

Maybe at one time this was a concern, but with the mass-produced hosts most US parishes use, crumbs are not an issue.
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Same here. In nearly 50 years, I have never had a problem with fragments or crumbs. If somehow a broken Host finds its way into the ciborium, it is simply left in the bowl by whoever is distributing, to be sorted out at some point later.
 
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There are no age restrictions concerning the papacy. However, to be a voting Cardinal in the conclave, (and therefore most likely to be pope) one must be younger than 80. Sarah is 72, and HH Francis is 81, and in okay health- he’s apparently struggling with sciatica, and has only 1 lung due to tuberculosis when he was younger. So, it’s possible, but I don’t think too likely, sadly.
 
Maximilian75 said:
IMO, better to be safe than sorry.

And again, I would like to see more COTT/K reception, but I don’t want to force people- that should be a personal choice.
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You can’t force anyone to do anything, but I was under the impression that you just wanted to make COTT/K reception the norm. That would be putting pressure on people to change, maybe not to the level of “forcing them”
 
I’m an extraordinary minister, and I have not found your experience to be the norm. Between each host, I make sure I brush my fingers over the bowl, and often crumbs will come off them. That’s not something I’d ever noticed when I receive the host.

There are sanitary reasons not to make COTT the norm. I see compelling reasons to make COTT the norm, and compelling reasons to make CITH the norm. Thankfully, there are men better than me who get to decide what should be the norm.
 
I would like it to be the norm, but in a sense of ‘most common practice in the Church, as decided by the laity’s choices’ as opposed to a liturgical norm, with the Vatican saying ‘Everyone must do xyz method abc’ .

I tried to phrase that in the best way possible, but it may still be confusing… I can elaborate if nessecary.
 
I believe that Communion on the tongue is still the universal norm of the Church. I do not believe that Communion in the hand is actually the norm anywhere, even though permission may be granted to individual Bishops’ Conferences for it to be permitted.

Personally I do not want to start telling people how they ought to receive Communion (I will leave that to those within the Church hierarchy).

I think we should return to altar rails amd people could at least choose to stand or kneel to receive. At present if you would like to receive kneeling, you have several obstacles put in your way. You need to be quite agile in kneeling precisely and rising quickly in order not to inconvenience those behind you. You also have the issue of whether or not you unintentionally drawing attention to yourself and appearing spiritually prideful.

At least if we had a return to altar rails with people slotting in when there is a space, it would remove such barriers.
 
I take the Eucharist on my tongue while I am standing.

Should I kneel instead?

I prefer not to accept the Eucharist in my hands because they are the hands of a sinner.
 
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I just get bothered when I see the Communion Rite treated as a sort of conveyor belt where efficiency is the most important thing, even more than piety.
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I don’t think being hurried along is anything new though. There were plenty of “speed Masses” pre-Council, where getting everyone read, fed and sped along was crammed into 20 minutes. I myself have never been to an OF weekday Mass that took less than 25 minutes… and even that was sparsely attended.
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I prefer not to accept the Eucharist in my hands because they are the hands of a sinner.
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I’m pretty sure I’ve sinned at least as much with my tongue in my life, through harsh and hurtful words, as with my hands. Many people are craftsmen or women who also create beautiful things with their hands. So I find that argument weak at best.
 
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I just merely said what I felt and you dismissed me and made how I approach the Eucharist as irrelevant.
 
AllI did ask was should i kneel.

Your comment did not answer my question.
 
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