Have you heard of this happening when receiving the Eucharist?

[Binary]

Yesterday I received the Eucharist, crossed myself and began quickly walking back towards my pew. When I got there, it seemed like the material of the host had multiplied in my mouth. If I had to put a number on it, I’d say it was like I had received three hosts instead of one. Now, this could have been a trick of my perception, but that’s what it felt like.

I think that it did happen, but I’m not certain. Does it sound plausible or do you think such a thing would be incompatible with any dogma?

 

[TheMc]

Yesterday I received the Eucharist, crossed myself and began quickly walking back towards my pew. When I got there, it seemed like the material of the host had multiplied in my mouth. If I had to put a number on it, I’d say it was like I had received three hosts instead of one. Now, this could have been a trick of my perception, but that’s what it felt like.

I think that it did happen, but I’m not certain. Does it sound plausible or do you think such a thing would be incompatible with any dogma?

There’s nothing wrong with it. They sometimes stick together. At one of my parishes, they hosts are quite light, and they sometimes stick to each other.

On some occasions where the tabernacle is quite a distance from the sanctuary, the priest will occasionally just consume the last 4 or 5 hosts instead of walking the distance to the tabernacle and back.

 

[TheMc]

Yesterday I received the Eucharist, crossed myself and began quickly walking back towards my pew. When I got there, it seemed like the material of the host had multiplied in my mouth. If I had to put a number on it, I’d say it was like I had received three hosts instead of one. Now, this could have been a trick of my perception, but that’s what it felt like.

I think that it did happen, but I’m not certain. Does it sound plausible or do you think such a thing would be incompatible with any dogma?

There’s nothing wrong with it. They sometimes stick together. At one of my parishes, they hosts are quite light, and they sometimes stick to each other.

On some occasions where the tabernacle is quite a distance from the sanctuary, the priest will occasionally just consume the last 4 or 5 hosts instead of walking the distance to the tabernacle and back.

On the flip side, sometimes if there is not quite enough hosts for communion, sometimes the priest will break the ones he has in half so that he won’t need to go to the tabernacle just to get 2 or 3 more hosts.

The whole body, blood, soul and divinity of Christ is present in every particle of the host, no matter how small. That is why the church asks for the usage of communion patens. It doesn’t say “they might be used” or “they may be used,” but it asks that they be used in every case.

Redemptonis Sacramentum no. 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. [Cf. Missale Romanum, Institutio Generalis, n. 118.]

GIRM no. 118:* Likewise these should be prepared: …] the Communion-plate for the Communion of the faithful* …]

 

[Bearontherun]

Yesterday I received the Eucharist, crossed myself and began quickly walking back towards my pew. When I got there, it seemed like the material of the host had multiplied in my mouth. If I had to put a number on it, I’d say it was like I had received three hosts instead of one. Now, this could have been a trick of my perception, but that’s what it felt like.

I think that it did happen, but I’m not certain. Does it sound plausible or do you think such a thing would be incompatible with any dogma?

I have never heard of anything like this happening but…perhaps it was a Eucharistic Miracle!

Thanks for sharing your experience.

 

[centurionguard]

I have never heard of anything like this happening but…perhaps it was a Eucharistic Miracle!

Thanks for sharing your experience.

:bless you:

I can’t speak on your behalf if you think it was a miracle. But personally I would share the experience with your parish priest and let him decide.

I can only say that I’ve received the Blessed Sacrament on infrequent occasions where I received two hosts stuck together. It neither added nor took away from the special privilege of receiving my Dear Lord Jesus into my soul.

 

[ardis3958]

Yesterday I received the Eucharist, crossed myself and began quickly walking back towards my pew. When I got there, it seemed like the material of the host had multiplied in my mouth. If I had to put a number on it, I’d say it was like I had received three hosts instead of one. Now, this could have been a trick of my perception, but that’s what it felt like.

I think that it did happen, but I’m not certain. Does it sound plausible or do you think such a thing would be incompatible with any dogma?

Either the host absorbed your saliva and expanded into mush, or the priest gave you more than one at once. Sometimes if you are among the last couple of people in line, the priest will double up (or more) the numbers of hosts he gives out to each person to force the hosts to run out so that they don’t have to be reserved. Or he consumes them himself.

 

[InspiritCarol]

I’ve never heard of exactly that, but it’s not really the sort of thing we talk about. Eucharist is as personal an experience as we can have.

I do know that unusual things do occur, but I would be betraying trust to share what others have told me.

Were you expecting or needing a special grace? Do you feel like God was trying to tell you something special in a very demonstrative way? If not, then maybe you got some hosts stuck together (something I’ve never seen or experienced); or maybe you are experiencing some fluke with the sensory organs within your mouth; maybe there is a psychological issue involved . Hopefully your priest can help you discern this.

Don’t feel discouraged if your priest is not as helpful as you’d like. Be sure to pray on the matter and thank God in all things.

 

[TheMc]

I don’t mean to be mean, but honestly, I think it was probably just a mistake. I doubt it was a miracle.

 

[ardis3958]

I don’t mean to be mean, but honestly, I think it was probably just a mistake. I doubt it was a miracle.

I agree. Miracles don’t seem to happen randomly for no apparent reason.