Communion givers must hate me

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Some very good points that have been made. Hence why I prefer to recieve Our Lord from the priest.

Some of your points especially where you are in contact with bodily fluids made me cringe a little as this is not ideal. I have personally had experiences where I know my tongue is out enough to place with out any contact but end up having communion ‘slotted’ into my mouth and pushed in, This was done by a LEM,

Thank you for passing on your experience.

THT
 
TheHolyTrinity said:
Some very good points that have been made. Hence why I prefer to recieve Our Lord from the priest.

Some of your points especially where you are in contact with bodily fluids made me cringe a little as this is not ideal. I have personally had experiences where I know my tongue is out enough to place with out any contact but end up having communion ‘slotted’ into my mouth and pushed in, This was done by a LEM,

Thank you for passing on your experience.

THT
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In many, many, many cases over the years, a communicant seeking communion on the tongue has been redirected to me or another EMHC because the hands of the priest shook too much – from advanced age or other neurological conditions, etc. Some priests with shaky hands will quickly and forcefully stick the host on the communicants’ tongue and hope for the best. It doesn’t always work out well.

I’ve been in EMHC training sessions were an EMHC with shaky hands voiced dislike about distributing communion on the tongue. I’ve noted that if their hands shake to the degree that makes it difficult/non-secure, then they have no business serving as an EMHC which I truly believe.

NB: Don’t just stick your tongue out to the point where you feel it’s out far enough. Stick it out as far as you’re able. If your tongue is attached be especially sure to open your mouth, and keep it open as wide as possible.
 
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LoyalViews said:
But, your emoji is a clown and you present yourself as someone who hasn’t posted here before.
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So. I’ve been posting here months as a returned Catholic after 30 years. I love my clown picture. Sometimes Catholics need to reclaim some sense of humor. Life is difficult enough.
 
That was my English wit 😛

I’m learning not to grade papers while posting here. It gets me all twisted. I like your clown too.

I hate communion in the hand myself, but it’s taking a lot much more than a host on the floor to wake up the bishops’ conferences.
 
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If the Host flutters to the ground, it is unlikely that the individual distributing Communion failed to put it on your tongue; it is more likely that you did not stick your tongue out far enough to get the Host onto it, or that in the process of pulling your tongue back in, you did not have your mouth open enough and the Host hit your front teeth and was flicked off.

And I seriously doubt that anyone hates you,. Some may not appreciate you, but I suspect in your life you have had other people in other circumstances not appreciate you - as is common with everyone I have ever met.

I was an altar boy starting in the 1950’s, and like other grade school children, was not always as “holy” as one might wish for. My classmates and I would talk about how long a ling of spit the priest had pulled from an individual’s mouth periodically. that was usually because the individual receiving did not swallow just before sticking their tongue out, and possibly was someone who salivated strongly. If you wish to receive on the tongue (and this is still the norm in the universal Church), then in order to not cause a problem doing so (as above), stick your tongue out far. And swallow your spit before you do.

Receiving in the hand is an ancient tradition which goes back to the early Church. and continued on into the 10th century. And in the early church, and for a number of centuries, people would receive Hosts to take back to their home (so obviously, they carried the Host back). If you are not comfortable receiving in the hand, certainly feel free to receive on the tongue.
 
Disturbing if it’s accurate. It’s interesting that none of the responses to it on YouTube argue against his claims; one person just thinks the commentator is too “rigid.”
 
Who is this guy, the Marian catechist? What are his affiliations, training? The blog only says he’s an evangelist, without an extensive biography.
 
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The Last Supper was the institution of the priesthood and all at the table were instituted into the priesthood (Presbyteral/Ministerial priesthood). Each one of the Twelve were ‘ordained’ into the Ministerial Priesthood.
This is the Mass that is celebrated on Holy Thursday.

Every priest and bishop I’ve ever seen, takes the Eucharist into his hands and eats. Doesn’t mean I get to do this - I’m not an ordained priest!
 
I’d not heard the stuff about Cdl. Bernardin before, so I want to know where he is coming from for that or where to verify facts.
 
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Thanks for that (EDIT: uh I meant I read that and it linked out to MEMORIALE DOMINI, which I found helpful too). It contains interesting voting information. No surprise to me that most did not favor the change. The only surprise was this snip here:
One may also adopt a simpler method, allowing the communicant himself to take the host from the ciborium.
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Obviously someone thought better of that at a later date. 👍
 
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And thanks for the crisis link as well. I appreciate it takes time to come up with these and I have read them. This link mentions the kneeling issue. I wish we still had the standard be kneeling. I have never experienced that, though, except while I was Protestant (I’m a convert). Maybe the standing thing tends to encourage the in the hand thing, and the article says standing was first. My experiences as an on the tongue person bears that out with short people as extraordinary MHC.
 
As a “Communion giver” (extraordinary minister of Holy Communion) :wink:I can tell you that nothing thrills me more than someone receiving on the tongue. I see it as a “secret handshake”, so to speak, indicating to me that this individual leans traditional and is probably a conservative Catholic. Sadly, those seem to be becoming more rare as people try to change the Church to fit society, as if God isn’t all-knowing and didn’t know 2,000+ years ago what the world would be like now and what the Church needs to provide.
 
Saxum said:
Only boys are permitted to serve the EF Mass according to the latest Vatican decision on the subject. The rubrics of 1962 are to be followed. Therefore, I accurately call them altar boys.
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No. Any male can serve the EF Mass.
 
I’m sure that others may be as well. I’m also certain that communion in the hand is more widely practiced more widely in some dioceses than others. People would be surprised to learn that receiving on the tongue is the norm while receiving in the hand is the exception.
 
Saxxum has made his point well, and with due patience despite agregious ad hominem and a legion of posters incapable of backing up anything with actual documentation.

My hands aren’t anything special. Receiving by tongue, and kneeling if possible, is the most reverent way to go. Also, Our Blessed Mother told us to avoid the disrespectful practice of receiving on the hand at Akita.
 
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Either form is fine, but when Christ broke bread He never placed it on their tongue, He just handed it to them.
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That occurred to me as well, but since they were the apostles, they were priests, and would therefore have been allowed to self-communicate even under Canon law.
 
True, but there is a distinction between our role as laypeople and the role of the priest. For many, having the Eucharist received on the tongue emphasizes this distinction – we are being fed by the hand of Jesus (the priest as “persona Christi”), as opposed to just taking him on our own.

But, I do realize that the practice of communion on the tongue falls under “positive law” and, I would imagine, was probably not the practice of the Church from the very beginning.
 
The last supper is not only memorialized by our Holy Thursday Mass (Mass of the Lord’s Supper) but also memorialized as the institution of the sacramental priesthood. We learn from the council of Trent (yes the council of Trent which is still a valid council) (Session 22 chapter 1) that the sacramental priesthood was instituted at the Last Supper…which is why we commemorate it to this Day. If you haven’t noticed, when priests concelebrate mass they don’t receive on the tongue. So I guess one would say those first 12 priests didn’t receive on the tongue either. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t. Up until recently the norm to receive has been on the tongue. To receive in the hand is an indult. Liturgical and sacramental practices organically develop. If you choose to receive in the hand so be it. Until the unlikely event that the indult is removed, you may continue to receive in the hand. Here are a few quotes regarding communion in the hand.
  1. John Paul II November 1980 issue of Stimme des Glabines magazine “There is an apostolic Letter granting permission for communion in the hand. But I am not in favor of this practice, nor do I recommend it”
  2. Pope Paul VI Memoriale Domini May 29, 1969 “…Commuion in the hand carries a danger of a loss of reverence for the most August Sacrament…”
  3. Father Geroge Rutler gave a sermon ( I believer on EWTN) in 1989 Good Friday St. Agnes Church stating and he quoted Mother Theresa Said, “Wherever I go in the whole world, the thing that makes me the saddest is watching people receive Communion in the hand.”
 
kristaok said:
Communion is for the believer
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You’re wrong. That’s what might be taught in your Protestant ecclesial community, but that’s not what is taught in the Catholic Church.

Holy Communion in the Catholic Church is not open to Protestants. Your insistence that it is, shows just how ignorant you are about the Catholic Christian faith and just how unprepared you currently are to receive Holy Communion in the Catholic Church.

Of course you’re welcomed to join the Church through RCIA, but until then Holy Communion is off limits to you. You’ll have to make due with a simulation. Finis.
 
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