Does your church use Communion patens?

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Anna_Claire said:
**I am not way off **but I do agree about the fast from midnight. That too discouraged people.
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Were the Eucharistic fast times decreased to one hour so that people wouldn’t be discouraged from receiving? Or was it due to the proliferation of Sunday Masses at individual parishes?

For example, my parish has a 7:30pm Sunday Mass – not Saturday. Imagine fasting from midnight to 7:30pm!
 
=YoungTradCath;8959422]Mine does not, which I find unfortunate. Redemptionis Sacramentum seems to require it when saying, “[93.] The Communion-plate for the Communion of the faithful should be retained, so as to avoid the danger of the sacred host or some fragment of it falling.” But in the same paragraph, there is a footnote pointing to GIRM 118, which says, “Likewise should be prepared: … c) on the credence table: … if appropriate, the paten.”
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Therefore I cannot decide whether or not the Communion paten is required in the OF.
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The FACT that they are NOT used or required by the Local Ordinaries IMO shows a serious disrespect for the the Real Presence of Christ in our Midst.

Ordianry misisters [most often female gender] of the eucharist, no paten, few genuflections, receiving Christ in ONES HAND, all point to a desire to make our Mass as Protestant as possibleThese actions deny the sacanity, respect and piety that God DESERVES but doers not get. Standing after communion is yet another indicator of lessing belief and understanding.

And one wonders why unbelief in the Real Presence is so common and pervassive:shrug:

MAY GOD HAVE MERCY on those calling these shots!

Pat
 
In Eastern Melkite Catholic Church they do not use communion patens.
 
PJM said:
The FACT that they are NOT used or required by the Local Ordinaries IMO shows a serious disrespect for the the Real Presence of Christ in our Midst.

Ordianry misisters [most often female gender] of the eucharist, no paten, few genuflections, receiving Christ in ONES HAND, all point to a desire to make our Mass as Protestant as possibleThese actions deny the sacanity, respect and piety that God DESERVES but doers not get. Standing after communion is yet another indicator of lessing belief and understanding.

And one wonders why unbelief in the Real Presence is so common and pervassive:shrug:

MAY GOD HAVE MERCY on those calling these shots!

Pat
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It’s so very sad.
 
I’m in a OF church that uses patens at every mass. Of course this is a very Hispanic parish and we are used to patens in our countries so this might be a reason. The pastor also requires an usher stand on the other side to make sure everyone is consuming the Eucharist and not pocketing it for God knows what
 
PJM said:
The FACT that they are NOT used or required by the Local Ordinaries IMO shows a serious disrespect for the the Real Presence of Christ in our Midst.
I think you mean the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharistic species. He is always in our midst.

Ordianry misisters [most often female gender] of the eucharist, no paten, few genuflections, receiving Christ in ONES HAND, all point to a desire to make our Mass as Protestant as possibleThese actions deny the sacanity, respect and piety that God DESERVES but doers not get. Standing after communion is yet another indicator of lessing belief and understanding.
**I find the above paragraph offensive to women,Protestant Christians and most Catholics. This in my opinion is Real irreverence to the Body of Christ. We cannot have reverence for the Body and Blood of Christ—the person of Christ—if we knock down those for whom he died out of love. **

And one wonders why unbelief in the Real Presence is so common and pervassive:shrug:
MAY GOD HAVE MERCY on those calling these shots!
I think the church (all of us) fail in how we teach about Real Presence. We cannot make anyone have a strong faith simply by presenting the facts and following rubrics. Of course thats important but theres more to forming a strong faith. We Catholics should be teaching about the love and compassion associated with the Eucharist. Our lives must reflect that we truly believe Christ is among us. Jesus wants us to know that he is very near, not distant. Faith,reverence in the Real Presence cannot happen until we want Jesus in our lives, until we want to be like him in love, compassion and by being nonjudgmental. Then others may understand that it’s in this Bread andWine we share, a presence par excellence, where it all begins.
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In answer to the thread title, yes. A good idea as well, because sometimes the host does fall.
 
Yes, we do use them. We never had before our current (and very conservative) priest came to our church. I think they are awesome.
 
I am certain that our current pastor would gladly use the paten, but the vocal minority in the parish are already up in arms with him for merely doing what he is supposed to be doing.
 
I actually voted for my work place, not my parish. They use them sometimes as it’s entirely dependent on whether or not there are any servers for Mass.

As for my own parish, they don’t use them. The Liturgy Coordinator didn’t want to bother trying to teach the servers how to use them so he convinced the pastor to get rid of them. In my own opinion, that was pure laziness. If you’re in charge of the servers, then you should be training the servers, not eliminating their responsibilities to make the work load lighter.
 
The_Curt_Jester said:
I actually voted for my work place, not my parish. They use them sometimes as it’s entirely dependent on whether or not there are any servers for Mass.

As for my own parish, they don’t use them. The Liturgy Coordinator didn’t want to bother trying to teach the servers how to use them so he convinced the pastor to get rid of them. In my own opinion, that was pure laziness. If you’re in charge of the servers, then you should be training the servers, not eliminating their responsibilities to make the work load lighter.
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Then perhaps your church shouldn’t have a “liturgy coordinator,” or should get a new one, or the current one should be told to back off.
 
YoungTradCath said:
Then perhaps your church shouldn’t have a “liturgy coordinator,” or should get a new one, or the current one should be told to back off.
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The church will be getting a new pastor soon. Hopefully he’ll set things right.

As for the LC, I agree. The church shouldn’t have one because the church doesn’t need one. It’s small enough that the pastor could do the job himself.
 
Jiminy, I voted yes and was surprised to see that there are more nos than yeses! I haven’t been to THAT many churches, but I think I can only remember one church that I’ve been to that didn’t use patens.

I would think you’d WANT communion patens…

Well. If I become the priest of a parish that doesn’t use patens, I’ll change it so that they do. 😃
 
The_Curt_Jester said:
As for my own parish, they don’t use them. The Liturgy Coordinator didn’t want to bother trying to teach the servers how to use them so he convinced the pastor to get rid of them. In my own opinion, that was pure laziness. If you’re in charge of the servers, then you should be training the servers, not eliminating their responsibilities to make the work load lighter.
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What? How hard can it be to teach servers to use patens???!?!? How silly!
 
bobballen_18 said:
Jiminy, I voted yes and was surprised to see that there are more nos than yeses! I haven’t been to THAT many churches, but I think I can only remember one church that I’ve been to that didn’t use patens.

I would think you’d WANT communion patens…

Well. If I become the priest of a parish that doesn’t use patens, I’ll change it so that they do. 😃
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Yes well, we don’t always think things through.
 
andrewstx said:
How does that work with communion under both species in an Eastern Church?

In my parish a napkin is held under your chin by the deacon and chanter.
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Father distributes communion, and the deacon, standing next to Father, holds the paten underneath our chins as we receive.
 
Splagchnizomai said:
Father distributes communion, and the deacon, standing next to Father, holds the paten underneath our chins as we receive.
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I think it’s very important for something to be held there to catch any drops of the precious blood.
 
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