Communion on the tongue

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Gorgias said:
However, hands receiving the Eucharist do not aerosolize saliva onto the hand of the minister distributing the Eucharist. šŸ˜‰
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When Iā€™ve distributed on the tongue, I have sometimes felt the communicant breathing out on my fingers. Presumably this would be when aerosolizing is taking place. Not pleasant.
 
The GIRM is perfectly clear. The priest cannot determine how a Communicant receives. This is exclusively for the Communicant to decide.
  1. The Priest then takes the paten or ciborium and approaches the communicants, who usually come up in procession.
It is not permitted for the faithful to take the consecrated Bread or the sacred chalice by themselves and, still less, to hand them on from one to another among themselves. The norm established for the Dioceses of the United States of America is that Holy Communion is to be received standing, unless an individual member of the faithful wishes to receive Communion while kneeling (Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Instruction, Redemptionis Sacramentum, March 25, 2004, no. 91).

When receiving Holy Communion, the communicant bows his or her head before the Sacrament as a gesture of reverence and receives the Body of the Lord from the minister. The consecrated host may be received either on the tongue or in the hand, at the discretion of each communicant. When Holy Communion is received under both kinds, the sign of reverence is also made before receiving the Precious Blood.
 
paperwight66 said:
When Iā€™ve distributed on the tongue, I have sometimes felt the communicant breathing out on my fingers. Presumably this would be when aerosolizing is taking place. Not pleasant.
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If I found distributing holy communion unpleasant, I would probably just not be a EMHC.
 
I guess my question is this: is a priest allowed to tell the communicant to recieve in the hand (and then later insist that he did not require it)?
 
thistle said:
The GIRM is perfectly clear. The priest cannot determine how a Communicant receives. This is exclusively for the Communicant to decide.
  1. The Priest then takes the paten or ciborium and approaches the communicants, who usually come up in procession.
It is not permitted for the faithful to take the consecrated Bread or the sacred chalice by themselves and, still less, to hand them on from one to another among themselves. The norm established for the Dioceses of the United States of America is that Holy Communion is to be received standing, unless an individual member of the faithful wishes to receive Communion while kneeling (Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Instruction, Redemptionis Sacramentum, March 25, 2004, no. 91).

When receiving Holy Communion, the communicant bows his or her head before the Sacrament as a gesture of reverence and receives the Body of the Lord from the minister. The consecrated host may be received either on the tongue or in the hand, at the discretion of each communicant. When Holy Communion is received under both kinds, the sign of reverence is also made before receiving the Precious Blood.
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It depends where you live. It always annoys me that the English version of the GIRM on the Vatican website is one proper to the US, with its adaptations, rather than the universal GIRM without adaptations.

Both the Canadian and the England and Wales versions of the GIRM say this:
  1. If Communion is given only under the species of bread, the Priest raises the host slightly and shows it to each, saying, The Body of Christ. The communicant replies, Amen, and receives the Sacrament either on the tongue or, where this is allowed, in the hand, the choice lying with the communicant.
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Iā€™ve always received on the hand. Iā€™ve never even heard of receiving on the tongue. I wouldnā€™t be comfortable with that.
 
Tuxedo_Mark said:
Iā€™ve always received on the hand. Iā€™ve never even heard of receiving on the tongue. I wouldnā€™t be comfortable with that.
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Iā€™d been receiving on the tongue for 10+ years when we were given permission to receive in the hand in Canada. I think Iā€™ve received on the tongue a few more times since, generally because my hands were full of babies. It wouldnā€™t bother me one bit to be told that itā€™s on the tongue or not at all. I donā€™t receive that way now because I feel it would just call attention to me.
 
Phemie said:
It depends where you live. It always annoys me that the English version of the GIRM on the Vatican website is one proper to the US, with its adaptations, rather than the universal GIRM without adaptations.

Both the Canadian and the England and Wales versions of the GIRM say this:
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However, in the GIRM quote you cited it also says where both methods of receiving are allowed the decision is that of the Communicant and not the priest.

The thread is not about which countries allow both methods. It is about where both are allowed who decides which way to receive. This decision belongā€™s only to the Communicant.
 
thistle said:
However, in the GIRM quote you cited it also says where both methods of receiving are allowed the decision is that of the Communicant and not the priest.

The thread is not about which countries allow both methods. It is about where both are allowed who decides which way to receive. This decision belongā€™s only to the Communicant.
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I too was a bit confused by the post until I realized that Phemie meant that the exact text of the GIRM depends on where one lives; not that the priest can mandate in-the-hand depending on where one lives.
 
Phemie said:
Iā€™d been receiving on the tongue for 10+ years when we were given permission to receive in the hand in Canada. I think Iā€™ve received on the tongue a few more times since, generally because my hands were full of babies. It wouldnā€™t bother me one bit to be told that itā€™s on the tongue or not at all. I donā€™t receive that way now because I feel it would just call attention to me.
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I changed from receiving in the hand to receiving on the tongue a few years ago. I canā€™t say exactly why but felt compelled to. I know both are perfectly valid.

We have quite a few who do receive on the tongue so it doesnā€™t call attention to anyone.
 
paduard said:
Yes.

Depending upon your age I suppose it is physically possible to place the Host on the tongue without touching the tongue at all
paduard.
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It is very possible when people open their mouths and stick out their tongues, but sometimes itā€™s like trying to put a 50 cent piece in a dime slot!
 
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