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Is it just me or whenever I take the Eucharist, I have a hard time chewing It. I hate to say this but does anyone else have this problem? I’m like, “Help me Lord!” :o

Tiny pieces are still in my mouth even when driving home though I try to swallow but it’s hard. I dare NOT take them out or I’m dead.
 
Paris Blues:
Is it just me or whenever I take the Eucharist, I have a hard time chewing It. I hate to say this but does anyone else have this problem? I’m like, “Help me Lord!” :o

Tiny pieces are still in my mouth even when driving home though I try to swallow but it’s hard. I dare NOT take them out or I’m dead.
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I don’t chew the Host. I let it disolve in my mouth. I used to chew, but I couldn’t stand the thought of little bits of Christ in my mouth afterward.
 
Paris Blues:
Is it just me or whenever I take the Eucharist, I have a hard time chewing It. I hate to say this but does anyone else have this problem? I’m like, “Help me Lord!” :o

Tiny pieces are still in my mouth even when driving home though I try to swallow but it’s hard. I dare NOT take them out or I’m dead.
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Instructed in the early 60’s not to chew the Host I never have, we were told if the Host sticks to the roof of your mouth, you may remove with your tongue.

Chew no, old habits die hard, it doesn’t take all that long for the Host to disolve anyway.
 
Okay, I’m confused…

So you can either chew or let it dissolve? Which way does the Church prefer?
 
Paris Blues:
Okay, I’m confused…

So you can either chew or let it dissolve? Which way does the Church prefer?
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You can do either. Since Priests often receive both halves of a larger Host(the Host is broken after Consecration), they basically HAVE to chew It, because if they didn’t they would be standing there at the Altar for quite a few minutes!

I have been to Tridentine Latin Masses, and I have seen the Priest specifically chew the Host.
 
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GoLatin:
You can do either. Since Priests often receive both halves of a larger Host(the Host is broken after Consecration), they basically HAVE to chew It, because if they didn’t they would be standing there at the Altar for quite a few minutes!
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Oh yeah, that’s right. I remember watching the priests on Daily Mass from EWTN chewing.
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It’s soooo not just you! 😛

I still have a difficult time chewing…for one, yeah, I just can’t bring myself to bite our Lord…then there’s the desire to have him intact as long as possible as I reflect and pray upon this wonderous gift he gave to me…

That part about being instructed not to chew and being allowed to dislodge a stuck host from the roof of our mouths with our tongue is soooo familiar to me! I’m one of those cradle Catholics who was a wee child before the shift of Vatican II so there are distant, faint memories of the old ways still in my conscience which pop to the forefront under certain circumstances, so reading that post was one of those moments today. *sigh *
 
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YinYangMom:
It’s soooo not just you! 😛

I still have a difficult time chewing…for one, yeah, I just can’t bring myself to bite our Lord…then there’s the desire to have him intact as long as possible as I reflect and pray upon this wonderous gift he gave to me…

That part about being instructed not to chew and being allowed to dislodge a stuck host from the roof of our mouths with our tongue is soooo familiar to me! I’m one of those cradle Catholics who was a wee child before the shift of Vatican II so there are distant, faint memories of the old ways still in my conscience which pop to the forefront under certain circumstances, so reading that post was one of those moments today. *sigh *
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Yes old habits die hard, Paris should do what she has been instructed to do.
On another point, my wife’s 85 year old grandmother won’t even receive from a Eucharistic Minister, so I’m not arguing with her unless someone else wants to come over and straighten her out.
She will only get inline where the priest is giving out Holy Communion, she sure is pre Vatican ll.

Warning though, she sure packs a punch, her tongue is mightier than the sword. :eek:
 
Though I guess the reason I had a hard time chewing was…

I want to say that on the right corner tooth on the bottom I have a small sensitive enamel problem and when I was trying to swallow our Lord, I couldn’t get one piece of Him off that tooth!

Maybe He was trying to heal it! 😃
 
Paris Blues:
Though I guess the reason I had a hard time chewing was…

I want to say that on the right corner tooth on the bottom I have a small sensitive enamel problem and when I was trying to swallow our Lord, I couldn’t get one piece of Him off that tooth!

Maybe He was trying to heal it! 😃
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Haha, that’s the way to look at it:)
 
I’m another of those pre-VII kids. Perish the thought that one should bite into Our Lord! Although I believe that an accurate translation of parts of the Gospel of John regarding the Eucharist uses the word gnaw?
 
I received 1st Communion the year of the Paul VI Mass, and was told not to chew by Sister Mary Agnes. Clearer catechesis later on down the road fixed that. It never made sense to me: Priests can chew, laypersons can’t? So I chew without a problem.
 
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I received 1st Communion the year of the Paul VI Mass, and was told not to chew by Sister Mary Agnes. Clearer catechesis later on down the road fixed that. It never made sense to me: Priests can chew, laypersons can’t? So I chew without a problem.
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Priests can also confect the Sacrament, laypersons can’t. I’m not sure I follow your logic on this one. Priests can do a full blessing of other people, laypersons can’t, etc…
I’m another of those pre-VII kids. Perish the thought that one should bite into Our Lord! Although I believe that an accurate translation of parts of the Gospel of John regarding the Eucharist uses the word gnaw?
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Heh. That’s an interesting point.

As a note, I’m a seventeen year old who was taught by my second grade teacher not to chew. I don’t. I don’t think it’s solely a pre-Vat II thing, if for that only.

However, I can’t really assign any blame to people who chew, as long as they do so reasonably (no chomping, please! and keep your mouth closed, of course), but those seem like common rules of etiquette anyway.
 
Both chewing an not chewing is fine. No one is not better than the other. Just be reverent!

It’s also a pious tradition to have a glass of water after Mass, before you eat anything else.
 
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AltarMan:
Both chewing an not chewing is fine. No one is not better than the other. Just be reverent!
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Oh yes, that reminds me, I wanted to make it clear that I’m not anti-chewer. 😃
It’s also a pious tradition to have a glass of water after Mass, before you eat anything else.
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Really? I’ve never done this/observed this. I suppose it makes sense, to cleanse the mouth once.
 
A priest here said in a talk or sermon one time that a more literal translation of the word “eat” with reference to the Body of Christ is “gnaw.” Based on that, I have no problem with chewing.
 
I have no problem with either, and have done both occasionally… but prefer to let the host soften on my tongue, not dissolve, then fold it a little and swallow. Dunno why, just habit
 
Chewing is fine. Not chewing is fine. Dissolving is NOT fine. Jesus is present in the Blessed Sacrament as long as the appearance of bread and wine remain. If you let the host dissolve in your mouth, you have not actually eaten as we are commanded to do. You have simply held Jesus in your mouth for awhile. He told us, “My flesh is real food,” and we should eat it as real food, not as a breath mint.

I was taught in the early 60’s by the dear nuns not to chew, so I use a method similar to CatholicCid - fold/break the host in half with my tongue, and in half again, so it’s in quarters in a stack, then swallow. It was also the custom in our family to have a drink of water after coming home from Mass and Communion in case any particles remained.

Betsy
 
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baltobetsy:
Chewing is fine. Not chewing is fine. Dissolving is NOT fine.
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Well dissolving has been fine for me since 1965, and as we are supposed to receive the blood as well, then do we eat the blood or drink it ?
There are too many Eucharistic abuses, I couldn’t believe a Protestant told me they went to Mass, took communinon in the hand and then put the Host in his pocket.

I later found out he delved in black magic, since communinon in the hand there have been Hosts found in the sweepings in Churches.
I know wer’e talking about chewing, but there are a lot of Eucharistic abuses, IE: receiving without confessing, the que’s receiving don’t match the que’s going to confession.

We did the no chewing thing because that is what was drummed into us pre Vatican II.
I don’t think I’m showing any less respect by letting the Host dissolve, infact it was consired at the time to be respectful.

If dissolving is wrong, then there are an awlful lot of Saints that got it all wrong.

What would happen if the Vatican brought it back in that we are not to chew or touch the body of Jesus with our hands, would you then not receive ?

You do what is right for you, I’ll do what is right for me, and what my conscience allows.
 
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