Communion and Sweetness of Host

[matthew1624]

I’d like to share an experience and would like to pose some questions as well.

I attend daily mass M-F at a parish near my workplace and Sunday mass at my parish home. I’ve experienced this at both locations, however the majority of the times is at the M-F noon mass. There have been times during communion that the host tastes really sweet. Along with this sweet taste is usually a feeling of great inner peace and comfort. At all other times the host tastes normal, sometimes stale and sometimes bitter. There may be long periods when I don’t experience this and then there are times when this happens out of the blue. I’m a cradle catholic and had never really understood the True presence of Christ in the Eucharist until about three years ago. Since then I cannot explain what the Eucharist means to me in words. As the church says, it is the source and summit of the Christian faith. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there anything in the host that would make it sweet?

Thanks and God Bless.

 

[system]

I’ve had hosts that were sweet, and I assumed they were putting something in it to make it that way. On a different note, just a few weeks ago the priest picked up the host and it looked like someone had taken a bite out of it–like a big-mouthed mouse or something. The priest looked strange (like he was worried about my reaction or something, LOL), but it’s still Him.

JELane

 

[Mjohn1453]

The sweetness or bitterness of a host has to do with how it was baked or the flour that was used. It is invalid matter to use a sweetner in the hosts that are to be used for the Eucharist.

 

[seek1st]

I find the taste of the Precious Blood to very greatly even from the same bottle. I, too, am a daily communicant and feel that possibly the Lord is pleased with me when it is very sweet and I should get to confession when it is very bitter. Call me crazy! I’ve never told anyone my theory.

 

[ATeNumquam]

JElane:

just a few weeks ago the priest picked up the host and it looked like someone had taken a bite out of it–like a big-mouthed mouse or something.

JELane

Easily explained!! Altar bread is baked in large sheets, then cut up into smaller hosts (and celebrant-sized ones) by a multiple cutter. (say, one cut to take out the large hosts, another cut for the smaller ones). I’d say the piece out of the side of one host was due to the cutting machine not being positioned correctly or something .

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A Te numquam separari permittas - never let me be separated from You

 

[dandn5000]

I find the taste of the Precious Blood to very greatly even from the same bottle. I, too, am a daily communicant and feel that possibly the Lord is pleased with me when it is very sweet and I should get to confession when it is very bitter. Call me crazy! I’ve never told anyone my theory.

You might be onto something.

I don’t usually receive the Precious Blood out of habit(usually either I’m at a school mass where it isn’t offered, serving at the altar where it isn’t offered to servers, or in the choir loft, where it isn’t offered. So on the very rare occasion I’m given the opportunity, I usually don’t. Now I might have to start again.

 

[bpbasilphx]

, serving at the altar where it isn’t offered to servers, or in the choir loft, where it isn’t offered.

Why would the Precious Blood not be offered to altar servers or choir?

 

[dandn5000]

, serving at the altar where it isn’t offered to servers, or in the choir loft, where it isn’t offered.

Why would the Precious Blood not be offered to altar servers or choir?

I’m not very sure about why the server’s can’t receive. I never asked.

The choir can’t because we’re in the loft and Father has one EMHC distribute to those who can’t join the line and then that person goes to the choir loft for the choristers. It would require a second EMHC to go upstairs(which is a feat in itself, those stairs are nasty) to do so.