Eucharist on the tongue

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sosayi1960 said:
I dunno, I guess it doesn’t matter, We aren’t worthy to touch the Eucharist, just like the garment story. It must mean Jesus died for Catholics only. It should state for all Catholics.****😃
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Doesn’t matter? This is an enormous spiritual issue. It matters IMMENSLY.
 
How many Catholic Churches offer the Eucharist by intinction on the tongue? Are they hard to find?
 
How many Catholic Churches offer the Eucharist by intinction on the tongue? Are they hard to find?
 
Wow, I had no idea that this thread became so popular…

Anyways, a thought came to me at Mass this morning. Didn’t St. John the Baptist say that he wasn’t worthy of even untying Our Lord’s sandals? That should speak volumes…If he can’t touch His sandals, and being the great forerunner that he was, how are we worthy to touch His flesh?

In Pax Christi
Andrew
 
otjm said:
Since when is what the early church did a mondernist practice, or radical?
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he has a point here. If you want to say recieveing on the tounge is better or holier than in the hand you should back it up with the fathers or the pope. But the pope said it was ok and it is in the liturgical norm and the fathers say “make a throne of your hands left over the right so as not to drop a single piece”. that was a nugget I got from fr grochels book about euchristic aboration. you should read the whole book it is quite good. The point is that we cannot make ourselves holier than the pope.

I may not be in america anymore but I was there not to long ago and when I was I remember just a few years ago how the bishops conference told everyone to bow before receiving. I still do to this day as a simple matter of obiedence. But the bishops have a valid point it is the reverent thing to do. I do however recall how they tragically told everyone to bow to the back of the person in front of them as apposed to waiting that extra moment so they could bow directly to the christ. I did not understand that. It seems to defeat the point.
 
Through Man’s reasoning one can justify just about any argument for and against anything… as this question has proved…

HOWEVER

The truth is

A priest’s hands have been sanctified and given the authority to touch God… YES GOD…

That is the Truth…Because the Priest is as Christ! Christ is at the Altar, and Christ FEEDS YOU.

NoOne but a properly ordained PRIEST should ever consider touching the Host.

And I could NEVER accept the Host off any other person.

Iccy
Now I feel better…
 
Icarus210 said:
Through Man’s reasoning one can justify just about any argument for and against anything… as this question has proved…

HOWEVER

The truth is

A priest’s hands have been sanctified and given the authority to touch God… YES GOD…

That is the Truth…Because the Priest is as Christ! Christ is at the Altar, and Christ FEEDS YOU.

NoOne but a properly ordained PRIEST should ever consider touching the Host.

And I could NEVER accept the Host off any other person.

Iccy
Now I feel better…
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You are NOT alone. Many of us revere the Eucharist exactly as you. Keep the Faith.
 
Love4Mary says that as a Eucharistic minister she prefers not to give Holy Communion on the tongue. As an EM myself, I have to agree. Some tongues are in, some are out, some mouths half open. Distribution on the hand is easier and quicker, maybe even more sanitary. Jesus said TAKE and eat and I am not at all convinced that my tongue is holier than my hand. Where did that notion come from? As long as we have the option, I vote for the hand!
 
Dorothy_Vining said:
Love4Mary says that as a Eucharistic minister she prefers not to give Holy Communion on the tongue. As an EM myself, I have to agree. Some tongues are in, some are out, some mouths half open. Distribution on the hand is easier and quicker, maybe even more sanitary. Jesus said TAKE and eat and I am not at all convinced that my tongue is holier than my hand. Where did that notion come from? As long as we have the option, I vote for the hand!
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We never see the pope giving Communion in the hand…that says it all.
 
I don’t hear people who recieve on the tongue saying that it is holier. I just here them saying that it is the way they choose to recieve. It is what has been put on their concience. I don’t here them saying that it is how everyone should be forced to recieve. In the parish I used to attend, those that recieved on the tongue were often ridiculed and belittled, but I never saw anyone do that to a person who recieved in the hand. Why do you suppose that is? I am not saying that those on this forum follow that parish’s attitude, but I just would like some insight into why.
 
The Eucharist is central to the Faith. Taking It on the hand diminishes Its sacred nature.
 
johnstown_johnn said:
We never see the pope giving Communion in the hand…that says it all.
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Go back a few posts you will find a link to a picture of our current pope giving communion in the hand. But you are holier than the pope right you can decide what is more holy.
 
johnstown_johnn said:
The Eucharist is central to the Faith. Taking It on the hand diminishes Its sacred nature.
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funny the fathers did not think so. Read father Grochels book about the Eucharist and you will find one of the early fathers saying “make a throne of your hands the left over the right so as not to drop a single particle.” They thought recieving on the hand was pretty reverent. It is a matter of personal preference. I myself prefer to recieve from the priest. Christ from christ. But how I recieve often depends on wheather or not I am carrying my daughter at the time.
 
otjm said:
That seems to be a very large mouthful of what you perceive as wrong in the Church; but let’s keep it to the topic at hand, the Eucharist.

Cookies of various shapes and sizes? What ever is that meant to be? There has been talk of other than wheaten hosts used on rare occasions, and I have yet to meet anyone who actually witnessed such an act and can name a time and parish.

If you are talking about the shape of legitimate hosts, then perhaps you should do a bit of research as to what throughout history has been their shape and size, as I suspect you are referring to the paper thin hosts of recent but pre-Vatican 2 times. Other than that, your charge seems specious; perhaps you can give date and time to your charge, and be more specific?
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Hi there! If you care to look up www.traditio.com under “Novus Ordo Service Photo Gallery” you might be able to decipher what I am trying to say. Its all about the church of Vatican II that has made unholy changes whereby today the faithful are terribly CONFUSED??? !
 
Read father Grochels book about the Eucharist and you will find one of the early fathers saying “make a throne of your hands the left over the right so as not to drop a single particle.”
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No disrespect intended against Grochel but having studied enough atomic and molecular physics, I would say that it’s pretty tough not to drop any particles, especially when moving the hands when millions of molecules are actually thrown around. Don’t believe me? :hmmm:

That’s why we use the paten underneath the chin at the TLM.
 
johnstown_johnn said:
We never see the pope giving Communion in the hand…that says it all.
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Au very very very contraire, Benedict XVI has:

http://www.the-tidings.com/2005/0902/communion1.jpg

and so has John Paul II:

http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/5816/jp2-1.jpg

[Edited by Moderator] Lots of ill HAS resulted from misplaced ‘Spirit of Vatican 2’, to be sure, and everyone has a right to receive on the tongue if they prefer, but Communion in the Hand is no more dangerous for us than it was for St Cyril himself.
 
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