Host dropped off my tongue

[SyroMalankara]

From the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops:

The General Instruction asks each country’s Conference of Bishops to determine the posture to be used for the reception of Communion and the act of reverence to be made by each person as he or she receives Communion. In the United States, the body of Bishops determined that Communion should be received standing, and that a bow is the act of reverence made by those receiving. These norms may require some adjustment on the part of those who have been used to other practices, however the significance of unity in posture and gesture as a symbol of our unity as members of the one body of Christ should be the governing factor in our own actions.

Those who receive Communion may receive either in the hand or on the tongue, and the decision should be that of the individual receiving, not of the person distributing Communion.

As the Holy See has said, if a person were to choose to kneel, in defiance of the directives of the Bishops, that alone is not a reason to deny them the Eucharist, which is determined and governed by norm of law.

The entire directive of the American Bishops may be found here and read to great benefit.

usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/the-mass/order-of-mass/liturgy-of-the-eucharist/the-reception-of-holy-communion-at-mass.cfm

This must be just a suggestion because there are multiple exceptions. All Eastern Churches in the USA receive by tongue standing, except for on occasion among Chaldeans and Syro-Malabarese. Almost all EF recipients receive via tongue and kneeling. Almost all Ordinariate recipients receive via tongue. Etc

Neither are necessarily “safer” options and accidents happen. This is why many churches have some sort of device to hold under the chin, a plate, a cloth etc

 

[LightBound]

pianistclare:
No. Please do not tell people this.
The Church has spoken. Both ways are equal. Reverence is an attitude and a personal action. A “method” cannot contain reverence in and of itself.
If people are dropping the host, they are simply not careful.
Almost everyone except for myself at my parish receive in the hand, and I’d say we have a dropped host maybe once a year.

 

[LightBound]

Rverence (definition): Deep respect for someone or something.

Black Masses are nothing new. Prior to vatican 2, if someone wanted to obtain a Host for a Black Mass, they received on the tongue jsut as everyone else did - they simply did not swallow the Host.

Your thinking is incorrect.

 

[LightBound]

pianistclare:
No. Please do not tell people this.
The Church has spoken. Both ways are equal. Reverence is an attitude and a personal action. A “method” cannot contain reverence in and of itself.
If people are dropping the host, they are simply not careful.
Almost everyone except for myself at my parish receive in the hand, and I’d say we have a dropped host maybe once a year.