Coronavirus: the TLM is safer because

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tafan2 said:
If someone has the priest touch their tongue 9 out of 10 times, two people are doing something wrong.
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Doesn’t matter though, it is still happening.
Besides, people are still breathing and coughing at mass. For some reason, people still attend mass when they are obviously sick.
 
Irishmom2 said:
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tafan2:
If someone has the priest touch their tongue 9 out of 10 times, two people are doing something wrong.
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Doesn’t matter though, it is still happening.
Besides, people are still breathing and coughing at mass. For some reason, people still attend mass when they are obviously sick.
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It’s one of the unfortunate consequences of scrupulosity.
 
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Maximian:
Communion on the tongue is safer than communion in the hand because the priest never touches tongues but often touches hands
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Never?

Hardly.

How about 25% of the time?
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Mary,
@maximian is referring to receiving on the tongue, while kneeling against the altar rail.

The priests almost never touch the tongue in the Latin mass because:
  • the person doesn’t say “Amen” so their tongue isn’t moving
  • the priest is standing much higher than their tongue
  • their head is also typically tilted back to give the priest (or deacon) a big target
  • because they are kneeling long before the priest arrives, the person has more time to situation him/herself.
Basically, when kneeling at the altar rail, the communion on the tongue is a lot easier.

When doing the procession, it’s easier to touch the tongue.
 
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Actually I just read a post on a thread here that a specialist doctor said done correctly, either way of receiving the Eucharist Body of Christ - in hand or on the tongue poses equal level of transfer risk. Please stop giving out incorrect medical advice and read other threads on this
 
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I would still question it.

I’m short. About 5 foot 4. Our priest is tall. Well over 6 foot. So I am looking up, toward him. In fact, our associate is more my height and he hits my tongue less often.

I also receive a low gluten host. Which means I stand there for an extra second or two, while the priest switches hosts.

See, I get that some like the EF and want more people to attend it. But just making up stuff isn’t the way to convince people.

As an aside, I would have a hard time at an EF. Even if they have the low gluten host, I have to be sure that I am getting it. So, closing my eyes and hoping that it right, doesn’t work. If I did that, I would have received gluten at least once a month. And that is not an option.
 
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Maximian said:
  • There is Communion in only one kind
  • there is no sign of peace
  • Communion on the tongue is safer than communion in the hand because the priest never touches tongues but often touches hands
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Sooooooooo?
 
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