Does your church use Communion patens?

[nannymar]

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I wasn’t sure what you meant by paten either because we do use what we call a “paten” every day in our daily Mass. It is the plate that the bread is placed to be offered in the Consecration. I am not sure what you call that plate with a handle under the chin of the communicant when receiving Holy Communion.
To confirm the name of what we call a “paten” is correct I went on <advent.org> and looked up the definition. Check it out and I would like to know the name of the plate with the handle attached and placed under the chin of the communicant. Thanks. To further clarify on our Sunday Liturgies we use a communion bowl because of the amount that is placed in it and for the safety of it’s content. Thanks again

 

[centurionguard]

I wasn’t sure what you meant by paten either because we do use what we call a “paten” every day in our daily Mass. It is the plate that the bread is placed to be offered in the Consecration. I am not sure what you call that plate with a handle under the chin of the communicant when receiving Holy Communion.
To confirm the name of what we call a “paten” is correct I went on <advent.org> and looked up the definition. Check it out and I would like to know the name of the plate with the handle attached and placed under the chin of the communicant. Thanks. To further clarify on our Sunday Liturgies we use a communion bowl because of the amount that is placed in it and for the safety of it’s content. Thanks again

A Communion Bowl - another styled form of a Ciborium has nothing to do with a hand-held Paten your referring to. And really IMHO placing 200-300 consecrated host in a communion bowl is more precarious to handle by a priest, deacon or EMHC distributing Holy Communion than a regular Ciboria that you can grip your hand around the ciboria stem…

Still though the Communion Bowl looks far better than the restricted use of crystal glass and clay Sacred Vessels used in some parishes.