Communion on the tongue discouraged?

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MagdalenaRita said:
My point again the medical profession says handwashing is the single most effective way to prevent the spread of germs, so germs can be passed by receiving in the hand also.
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Yes to the first assertion. I’m not seeing the second. How would not touching your hand – when giving you communion – pass germs?
 
Receive how you feel called to receive and not how you think others want you to. That is likely a temptation anyway. You please God and not man. Remember the beatitudes, blessed are you when people reviled you and persecute you…on my account(matt 5:11). You do what God has taught you.
 
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Gorgias said:
How would not touching your hand – when giving you communion – pass germs?
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Maybe I am not sure what you are asking but hands can touch hands when receiving communion in the hand.

Not touching hands is not what I said.
 
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Peeps said:
And I don’t think young people are very healthy these days.
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Young people have always done all the unhealthy stuff you mentioned. It’s not some new thing. It’s older people who get all health conscious because they worry more about incapacitating illness or death.
 
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BlueMaxx said:
Not to go too far off topic, but apparently there is some very virulent forms of the flu that have killed the young and old recently.
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There seems to be one of those every other year. Not minimizing it, but because the flu virus mutates every year there’s going to be killer flu popping up on a regular basis.
 
Paul72 said:
I go to the Ordinary Form of the Mass and I reccieve Communion on the tounge. I am going to stop, however. The reason is because almsot every time I do, the Extraordinary Ministers give me nasty looks and even one of the priests makes a face at me.
I just want to know if you’d stop receiving on the tounge too. While I perfer to receive on the tongue, the ministers are making me feel very uncomfortable. I feel very awkard receiving from them in this way.

Thank you and God bless.
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I would not stop.
 
Perhaps a copy of Christus Vincit could find its way to the pastor and EMofHC 😀
 
MagdalenaRita said:
Maybe I am not sure what you are asking but hands can touch hands when receiving communion in the hand.
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Maybe. But, it’s far less common that they do touch than that they don’t touch. So, I would expect that the risk is lesser.
MagdalenaRita said:
Not touching hands is not what I said.
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Hmm… I read this, and that’s why I responded as I did:
MagdalenaRita said:
germs can be passed by receiving in the hand also.
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Hmm not sure what you are trying to say, it appears you might be reading more into what I said than what is there, so we will just have to agree to disagree here.
 
People are still breathing into the priest’s face whether they receive in the hand or on the tongue when approaching for communion. There are many ways to spread germs. I am not saying what percentage is greater than the other, (handwashing is the best way to stop the spread of germs). Just saying germs are spread hand to hand contact also.

In all charity, that’s all I’m saying.

God bless
 
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Paul72 said:
I am going to stop, however. The reason is because almsot every time I do, the Extraordinary Ministers give me nasty looks and even one of the priests makes a face at me.
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So, I glanced at the EMHC as he was administering HC, and he was indeed making a face. He was concentrating on what he was doing. Some folks concentration face can look a bit like a scowl.
 
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MagdalenaRita said:
People are still breathing into the priest’s face whether they receive in the hand or on the tongue when approaching for communion.
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Agreed. But, that doesn’t mean that, having gotten a face-full of germs, the priest immediately begins transmitting the germs with his hands as he continues to distribute communion… right?
MagdalenaRita said:
Just saying germs are spread hand to hand contact also.
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Right. I agree. But, I’m making the case that there is limited “hand to hand contact” in the distribution of communion in the hand. I’ll have to pay attention the next time I’m up for distributing communion – my impression is that I touch the host, and place the host in people’s hands, and I don’t touch their hand at all.
 
It too mention everyone dips their fingers in holy water on the way in and out, I always thought of that as being the point of cross contamination than the host… drinking from the same cup I get.
 
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Communion on the tongue is rare at my church, but all the priests at my church do a great job of it every time. Never have felt a finger, never got any scolding looks. I always have my hands at the ready though in case there is an accident. Say amen and open wide with your tongue slightly out, head tilted slightly back. Never had any problems.

If you are sick or contagious, I personally would not approach at all rather than receive in the hand. That is only MY thoughts on the matter.
 
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I am a EMHC and in our parish people are free to receive in the hand or tongue to stand or kneel. For me either is fine I really don’t mind. If the person receiving is very tall I can struggle to reach and place host on tongue.
 
Herself said:
I am a EMHC and in our parish people are free to receive in the hand or tongue to stand or kneel. For me either is fine I really don’t mind. If the person receiving is very tall I can struggle to reach and place host on tongue.
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OK, so here’s my minister-to-minister question for you: of the folks who receive on the tongue at your parish, do you ever end up touching their tongue? I mean, either you miscalculate, or they move, or they start closing their mouth, and then there you are, with damp fingers.

Then, you touch the next host, and guess what? It sticks to your damp fingers. And then it goes into the next person’s mouth or hand, and you’ve transmitted the previous recipient’s saliva to them. 😦

Hasn’t that happened to you?
 
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