Does your parish use a Paten during Communion?

[Melissa]

Our parish does use them, and our altarboys (and yes, only altarboys though some are getting into the young adult stage) have been drilled on how to properly use them.

Of course, I always receive on the tongue even when traveling to another parish because I’ve had major nerve damage (resulting in no feeling and diminished motor control) to my right hand, and it’s just too stressful for me otherwise, since I drop mundane stuff rather frequently.

 

[Toni]

Lux_et_veritas:

I should clarify, since many of us do go to multiple parishes for one reason or another, be sure to use the parish in which you are registered for your poll result.

OK I voted for the parish I have to attend most. But all the other parishes I am registered in do.

 

[Michael038]

No, havent seen any since the 1970’s.

 

[rayne89]

netmil(name removed by moderator):

Yes!

Ditto! - obviously since we attend the same parish.

 

[otm]

Dr. Bombay:

When the priest whispers to me, “I’m not putting It in their hand” as we’re coming down from the altar, I know what to do. Since I wasn’t the one distributing Communion, it wasn’t my call to begin with. My agenda? Methinks not.

People can receive in the hand at millions of Catholic churches around the globe. If they can’t take the time to read a church bulletin properly, then show up at a TLM expecting English and innovation, that’s too bad for them.

So you are saying that if one attends a TLM, one may not receive in the hand? Perhaps you may know of some legislation that states that is the case?

Not your agenda, you say. Methinks there is a bit of glee in your original post; tell me it isn’t so.

 

[JKirkLVNV]

otm:

So you are saying that if one attends a TLM, one may not receive in the hand? Perhaps you may know of some legislation that states that is the case?

Not your agenda, you say. Methinks there is a bit of glee in your original post; tell me it isn’t so.

Actually, OTM, I rather think that’s correct: attending a TLM, you would have to conform to that "usage’s) norms of reception (as another poster stated, it would be the same in a Byzantine Catholic Church, for example: one would rec. by intinction, with a veil held under your chin).

 

[Monica37]

Ok, first, let me say that I am the newest member of the Dr Bombay fan club. I had to say no on the poll, but I wish they would use a paten. I am one of the few in my parish that recieves on the tongue and every Sunday I wish I had a paten there as I also have a squirmy 15 mo. old in my arms at the time. Is there some way I could purchase them for my parish and maybe by giving them, they would use them? Where could I get some? Remember, I live in the Bible Belt and would need to get them on line.

 

[netmilsmom]

Dr. Bombay:

In my Traditional Latin Mass parish, of course we do!

In fact, on Christmas day we had some NO parishoners show up at the early morning Mass by mistake. It was my distinct pleasure to shove that paten right up under their chin until they got the message, dropped their hands and stuck their tongues out. The paten has many uses, including being used as a teaching tool.

I have to tell you that my family laughed for hours envisioning you popping some hand communicant’s adam’s apple with a paten.

My hubby even came up with a sound effect, “Took, took, took”
Thanks!!

 

[Dr.Bombay]

otm:

So you are saying that if one attends a TLM, one may not receive in the hand? Perhaps you may know of some legislation that states that is the case?

Not your agenda, you say. Methinks there is a bit of glee in your original post; tell me it isn’t so.

Glee? No. Quiet satisfaction? Perhaps.

And I’ve told you before in previous discussions, I’m not a Canon lawyer. Nor do I have any desire to be. I just thought my paten story was an interesting counter to all the “denied Communion while kneeling” stories that have been posted here. And since it involved a paten, it was pointedly on topic.

So, no, I cannot point to any legislation. However, I can tell you what 10% of 1.2 billion is, if you’d care to know??? That’s all I’ve got to wow people with. :nope:

 

[Dr.Bombay]

netmil(name removed by moderator):

I have to tell you that my family laughed for hours envisioning you popping some hand communicant’s adam’s apple with a paten.

My hubby even came up with a sound effect, “Took, took, took”
Thanks!!

Now, mom. That’s how those crazy internet rumors get started. :tsktsk: “Hey, did ya hear Bombay’s been assaulting people with a paten?”

After all, I have a mystique to protect.

 

[Dr.Bombay]

Monica37:

Ok, first, let me say that I am the newest member of the Dr Bombay fan club.

Eeeeeexcellent. The Confraternity of Uber Catholics grows stronger daily. Defending orthodoxy armed with nothing but a gold paten and a bit of glee.

 

[otm]

Dr. Bombay:

Glee? No. Quiet satisfaction? Perhaps.

And I’ve told you before in previous discussions, I’m not a Canon lawyer. Nor do I have any desire to be. I just thought my paten story was an interesting counter to all the “denied Communion while kneeling” stories that have been posted here. And since it involved a paten, it was pointedly on topic.

So, no, I cannot point to any legislation. However, I can tell you what 10% of 1.2 billion is, if you’d care to know??? That’s all I’ve got to wow people with. :nope:

OK, I’ll bite - what is with your 120,000,000?
And as to my question, I think another poster may have answered it, alsthough I do not know if it is correct or not; and that is, is it specifically required by the rubrics of the TLM, and are is the indult specific to the Pauline Mass?

 

[Dr.Bombay]

otm:

OK, I’ll bite - what is with your 120,000,000?

Some would claim that’s how many Traditionalists there are in the world. Don’t know where they get that number, but there it is.

Another interesting fact…apparently .10 is completely different than .10%. At least in Australia it is. I don’t know about elsewhere. :nope:

otm:

And as to my question, I think another poster may have answered it, alsthough I do not know if it is correct or not; and that is, is it specifically required by the rubrics of the TLM, and are is the indult specific to the Pauline Mass?

Can’t help you there. I’ve got an English translation of the 1962 Rubrics and there doesn’t appear to be any type of posture for reception specified that I’ve seen. Of course, I could’ve overlooked it.

 

[paramedicgirl]

otm:

OK, I’ll bite - what is with your 120,000,000?
And as to my question, I think another poster may have answered it, alsthough I do not know if it is correct or not; and that is, is it specifically required by the rubrics of the TLM, and are is the indult specific to the Pauline Mass?

You mean you missed the big debate on how to multiply and divide? forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=89533&highlight=calculator
I got the same answer as Dr Bombay, so we must have been taught the same kind of grade 4 math

 

[Nekic]

Dr. Bombay:

Some would claim that’s how many Traditionalists there are in the world. Don’t know where they get that number, but there it is.

Another interesting fact…apparently .10 is completely different than .10%. At least in Australia it is. I don’t know about elsewhere. :nope:

huh?
.10 is different from .10%?
What, in that there is no % after the .10?
I get you not…

 

[Donna_Mc]

No, but I wish they did!

 

[warrior71]

otm:

So you are saying that if one attends a TLM, one may not receive in the hand? Perhaps you may know of some legislation that states that is the case?

Not your agenda, you say. Methinks there is a bit of glee in your original post; tell me it isn’t so.

I’ve attended many Indult masses in different parts of the country and the world for that matter over the past 20 years. I’ve never seen anyone not receive on the tongue, although some people do receive while standing. Not too many though. I was kind of drifting back and forth for a while between the two, NP and Indult, but I’ve pretty much given up on the NO. Way too much going on at the altar and generally too irreverent for my taste.

 

[AJV]

Dr. Bombay:

Another interesting fact…apparently .10 is completely different than .10%. At least in Australia it is. I don’t know about elsewhere.

It is here
Nekić:

huh?
.10 is different from .10%?
What, in that there is no % after the .10?
I get you not…

Exactly. There is no %.

0.10 = 1/10

% = 1/100

Therefore,
0.10%= 1/10 x 1/100
=1/1000

Unless you meant 0.1=10% Dr

 

[Dr.Bombay]

AJV:

It is here

Exactly. There is no %.

0.10 = 1/10

% = 1/100

Therefore,
0.10%= 1/10 x 1/100
=1/1000

Unless you meant 0.1=10% Dr

Oh no. What have I started again?

Of course I meant 0.1 = 10%. That’s been my contention all along and I was beginning to think I was crazy. Thanks for the support AJV. :tiphat:

 

[Dr.Bombay]

Nekić:

huh?
.10 is different from .10%?
What, in that there is no % after the .10?
I get you not…

I get it not either. However, it’s what I was told by people who know better than I. I guess that little percent sign works some kind of magic and is capable of invisibly relocating the decimal point.

And my parish still uses patens.