Do you take the Blood?

[KennySe]

JNB:

Submission to the church means taking both species? Sorry, try again…

Okay, I’ll try again.

JGC quoted the Catechism.

CCC

1390 Since Christ is sacramentally present under each of the species, communion under the species of bread alone makes it possible to receive all the fruit of Eucharistic grace. For pastoral reasons this manner of receiving communion has been legitimately established as the most common form in the Latin rite. But “the sign of communion is more complete when given under both kinds, since in that form the sign of the Eucharistic meal appears more clearly.”[222] This is the usual form of receiving communion in the Eastern rites.

So, when I attend Holy Mass, and the Blessed Sacrament is offered under both forms, I choose to participate in the “Eucharistic meal” by partaking of both forms.

That the Catholic Church says that Eucharist under both forms may be offered to the laity, I submit to this authority of the Catholic Church, and I choose to accept the Offering in both forms.

 

[JNB]

KennySe:

Okay, I’ll try again.

JGC quoted the Catechism.
CCC

1390 Since Christ is sacramentally present under each of the species, communion under the species of bread alone makes it possible to receive all the fruit of Eucharistic grace. For pastoral reasons this manner of receiving communion has been legitimately established as the most common form in the Latin rite. But “the sign of communion is more complete when given under both kinds, since in that form the sign of the Eucharistic meal appears more clearly.”[222] This is the usual form of receiving communion in the Eastern rites.
So, when I attend Holy Mass, and the Blessed Sacrament is offered under both forms, I choose to participate in the “Eucharistic meal” by partaking of both forms.

That the Catholic Church says that Eucharist under both forms may be offered to the laity, I submit to this authority of the Catholic Church, and I choose to accept the Offering in both forms.

**BE VERY CAREFUL when you claim to submit to the will of the church.

**This passage says that both species is more complete, but again DOES NOT MANDATE people recieveing both species when available, and in fact this passage explains why one species alone is still receieving the body and blood of Christ, in the holy sacrafice of the mass.

For me, I would not mind taking both forms, and in fact I think its preferable to take both forms vs. taking the host alone if it is done by intinction(The priest or deacon dipping the host into the precious blood, as is done in the Eastren rites), but for the chalice, while it is the blood of Christ, the accidents of backwash are introduced as people take it.

 

[pnewton]

I always receive under both kinds unless I am ill. I would have no problem either way if the church changed it’s current position of giving us a choice and mandated either one or two species.

But this is definitely not worth starting a “blood” feud.