Dropped Host At The Altar

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I have seen threads before regarding this, but can’t locate one now and something happened at daily Mass this morning that I have never seen before. After the priest gave Communion to the EHMCs and they were about to give Communion to the servers one of the EHMCs reached down on the floor and picked something up. He said something to the priest and then put “it” on the altar. Later, after Communion was over the priest went to the altar and picked “it” up…and consumed it. I then realized the “it” was a fallen Host. Nothing further was done. Was that all that should have been done? Just curious, because like I said I have never encountered anything such as this before.

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:heart:Blyss
 
BlyssfulDreamer said:
I have seen threads before regarding this, but can’t locate one now and something happened at daily Mass this morning that I have never seen before. After the priest gave Communion to the EHMCs and they were about to give Communion to the servers one of the EHMCs reached down on the floor and picked something up. He said something to the priest and then put “it” on the altar. Later, after Communion was over the priest went to the altar and picked “it” up…and consumed it. I then realized the “it” was a fallen Host. Nothing further was done. Was that all that should have been done? Just curious, because like I said I have never encountered anything such as this before.

Thank you

:heart:Blyss
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Generally that is all that needs to be done. However, the Host should never be placed directly on the corporal but in a ciborium or on a paten.
 
At my parish when I was serving as an EMHC, the priest dropped a Host out of his ciborium as he was walking to give Holy Communion to the congregation. The EMHC nearest to the dropped Host retrieved the Host placed the Host in her ciborium and then Holy Communion was given as normal.
 
lak611 said:
At my parish when I was serving as an EMHC, the priest dropped a Host out of his ciborium as he was walking to give Holy Communion to the congregation. The EMHC nearest to the dropped Host retrieved the Host placed the Host in her ciborium and then Holy Communion was given as normal.
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The Body of Christ should never be touched by anyone but an duly ordained priest. But this is only my humble opinion.

This goes for Eucharistic ministers as well.
 
Thank you all for your responses. I had never seen that happen before…and I was wondering…

:heart:Blyss
 
StMarkEofE said:
The Body of Christ should never be touched by anyone but an duly ordained priest. But this is only my humble opinion.

This goes for Eucharistic ministers as well.
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I agree. The priests’ hands are consecrated to enable him to handle the Body of Christ, not ours. That is why I once refused to act as an EMHC.
 
StMarkEofE said:
The Body of Christ should never be touched by anyone but an duly ordained priest. But this is only my humble opinion.

This goes for Eucharistic ministers as well.
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I Agree also…

However, I don’t think it will be long until we get hose coming on the thread saying how we are somehow being disobedient to Mother Church for thinking such a thing…
 
I am an acolyte for the Diocese of Lincoln and we are taught that a corporal should be placed over the spot where the Eucharist landed on the floor. Later the Priest will take a corporal dipped in holy water and dab the spot to pick up any loose particles, which of course is the Body of Christ.
 
Jared123 said:
I am an acolyte for the Diocese of Lincoln and we are taught that a **corporal should be placed over the spot where the Eucharist landed on the floor. ** Later the Priest will take a corporal dipped in holy water and dab the spot to pick up any loose particles, which of course is the Body of Christ.
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Would they do that during Mass or after everyone had left?

:heart:Blyss
 
Jared123 said:
I am an acolyte for the Diocese of Lincoln and we are taught that a corporal should be placed over the spot where the Eucharist landed on the floor. Later the Priest will take a corporal dipped in holy water and dab the spot to pick up any loose particles, which of course is the Body of Christ.
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I thought that was the correct procedure to follow.
 
BlyssfulDreamer said:
Would they do that during Mass or after everyone had left?

:heart:Blyss
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The corporal is to mark the spot as a visible sign so that no one will step on the spot while comming up to recieve. The priest will dab the spot later, but I don’t think it will be after mass since only more people will be walking around. This will probably be done while cleaning the vessels. We have two priest at each mass so one would probably clean the vessels while the other would take care of the fallen Eucharist. We only have priest and acolytes (men only) distributing holy communion. beside each person distributing communion we have an altar boy holding a paten with a longer handle. (Not sure if this is the correct word). His job is to try and catch any falling host during communion. This is another safeguard against dropping the Eucharist. occassionally I have seen the Eucharist dropped but will land on th paten.
 
Jared123 said:
I am an acolyte for the Diocese of Lincoln .
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Ahh bishop bruskewitz! I have a person in my parish who moved from Lincoln. He is an instituted acolyte as well. In fact just last night we were discussing the fact that our diocese really needs instituted acolytes. I believe he is the only acolyte in our diocese. He is not able to fully serve because of the different worldview of things in our diocese. He is seriously considering moving his family back to Lincoln.
 
StMarkEofE said:
The Body of Christ should never be touched by anyone but an duly ordained priest. But this is only my humble opinion.

This goes for Eucharistic ministers as well.
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Are you saying that in your opinion a Deacon should not be allowed to distribute the communion?
 
my poor dad used to receive on the tongue for as long as i could remember, until one day the priest dropped the host while placing it on my dad’s tongue. i remember the priest giving this huge sigh, then picking it up. where it went after that, i’m not sure.

however, my extremely religious and devout dad no longer wants to receive on the tongue for this reason. i’m sure he felt bad though it wasn’t his fault.

i have never seen a paten(?) used in any church in my area. i didn’t think they were still in use till i visited a church in my brother’s area in virginia. but, this is an example of why they should be used…
 
decn2b said:
Ahh bishop bruskewitz! I have a person in my parish who moved from Lincoln. He is an instituted acolyte as well. In fact just last night we were discussing the fact that our diocese really needs instituted acolytes. I believe he is the only acolyte in our diocese. He is not able to fully serve because of the different worldview of things in our diocese. He is seriously considering moving his family back to Lincoln.
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Its kind of interesting to see people move into the Lincoln Diocese from other parts of the country. They usually freak out because we do things different from other dioceses around the nation. They either end up loving or it hating it and this is usually based on how orthodox of a Catholic they are. We do however have many Catholics moving here because they want to raise their family in a good orthodox diocese. I would never move from here for any reason.
 
StMarkEofE said:
The Body of Christ should never be touched by anyone but an duly ordained priest. But this is only my humble opinion.

This goes for Eucharistic ministers as well.
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It has been the consistant, Apostolic and Universal teaching of the Church that Deacons may distribute Holy Communion.

In fact, one of the historical roles of the Deacon was to bring the Eucharist to the sick, or the Eucharist from the Altar of the Bishop to other Churchs.

( and a “Eucharist Minister” is always a priest as only a priest may confect the Eucharist; you might be confusing the term with “Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion”,)
 
Jared123 said:
Its kind of interesting to see people move into the Lincoln Diocese from other parts of the country. They usually freak out because we do things different from other dioceses around the nation. They either end up loving or it hating it and this is usually based on how orthodox of a Catholic they are. We do however have many Catholics moving here because they want to raise their family in a good orthodox diocese. I would never move from here for any reason.
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Lincoln is my diocese as well and I am thankful everyday for our bishop. When I see some of the horror stories posted on this board I cringe…knowing it would not probably happen here.

:heart:Blyss
 
BlyssfulDreamer said:
Lincoln is my diocese as well and I am thankful everyday for our bishop. When I see some of the horror stories posted on this board I cringe…knowing it would not probably happen here.

:heart:Blyss
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I don’t know if you notice but our Bishop is going to be on Catholic Answers radio program on Jan. 24th. If you click on the radio heading you can see his picture and read about him.
 
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