How do you receive the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Christ????

[JKirkLVNV]

I originally received in the hand, switched to the tongue, but have been put off of it by the attitude of many on these threads that seem to suggest it’s higher or holier to rec. that way and they, therefore, are also higher and holier (if the shoes doesn’t fit, I suggest you not put it on), and so have switched back to the hand as it feels more organic and natural and I don’t find myself consummed with thoughts of “how” to rec. so much as the joy of receiving. That’s just my take.
I would much prefer to rec. by intinction, but that’s not an option in my parish, so I rec. both Sacred Species.

 

[Scout]

gez722:

Scout,
I’m sorry, but I don’t agree. I just read all of the synoptic passages regarding the Last Supper and it doesn’t specify how Our Lord administered His Body and Blood.

While I agree that it doesn’t say he placed it on their tongues, it also doesn’t say that “he handed it to them”.

This really wasn’t just any Passover Feast. This was a special case.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m fine with people receiving in the hand or the tongue as long as proper respect is shown. I just think that you’re trying to use Scripture to say something that it doesn’t. It really doesn’t support either argument (hand vs mouth) and I think that it’s misleading and dangerous to say that it does.

God Bless,
Gary

I don’t think I"m trying to make Scripture say something that it doesn’t. Also, please consider that the practice of receiving on the tongue didn’t begin until much later (I’d have to check the exact time, but I believe it was sometime during the early middle ages). Somewhere along the line, someone decided the Host couldn’t be touched.

I have no problem with people who want to receive on the tongue, but I have no desire to do so myself. In fact, for me personally, if I could only receive on the tongue, then I probably wouldn’t have converted. I know this sounds horrible, but I just can’t stand the idea of someone being that close to me. I would be so overwhelmed by that notion that receiving Holy Communion would lose all its value and meaning.

Scout :tiphat:

 

[MaryAgnes]

gez722:

Scout,
I’m sorry, but I don’t agree. I just read all of the synoptic passages regarding the Last Supper and it doesn’t specify how Our Lord administered His Body and Blood.

While I agree that it doesn’t say he placed it on their tongues, it also doesn’t say that “he handed it to them”.

This really wasn’t just any Passover Feast. This was a special case.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m fine with people receiving in the hand or the tongue as long as proper respect is shown. I just think that you’re trying to use Scripture to say something that it doesn’t. It really doesn’t support either argument (hand vs mouth) and I think that it’s misleading and dangerous to say that it does.

God Bless,
Gary

You are right, scripture does not literally say whether Jesus handed the bread to the apostles or if he put it on their tongue. However, **Scout’s conclusion ** that Jesus handed it to them to eat by feeding themselves is probably correct.

Scripture scholars would back their knowledge of the text (Jesus gave them the bread) with what is known about that historical period (being that it was the Passover Feast). Scout used the same method. The likelihood is that Scout is right.

 

[gez722]

MaryAgnes:

You are right, scripture does not literally say whether Jesus handed the bread to the apostles or if he put it on their tongue. However, **Scout’s conclusion **that Jesus handed it to them to eat by feeding themselves is probably correct.

Scripture scholars would back their knowledge of the text (Jesus gave them the bread) with what is known about that historical period (being that it was the Passover Feast). Scout used the same method. The likelihood is that Scout is right.

MaryAgnes,

Good point… I can’t dispute what you’re saying. I was just pointing out that scripture doesn’t definitively say how the Apostles received Communion.The Church has declared that both methods are fine, so that’s good enough for me. The important thing is that we show reverence to Our Lord.

God Bless,
Gary

 

[gez722]

Scout:

I don’t think I"m trying to make Scripture say something that it doesn’t. Also, please consider that the practice of receiving on the tongue didn’t begin until much later (I’d have to check the exact time, but I believe it was sometime during the early middle ages). Somewhere along the line, someone decided the Host couldn’t be touched.

I have no problem with people who want to receive on the tongue, but I have no desire to do so myself. In fact, for me personally, if I could only receive on the tongue, then I probably wouldn’t have converted. I know this sounds horrible, but I just can’t stand the idea of someone being that close to me. I would be so overwhelmed by that notion that receiving Holy Communion would lose all its value and meaning.
Scout

Scout,
I hope you didn’t take my comments personally. Your argument sounds reasonable, but I was just pointing out that Scripture doesn’t definitively point out how the Apostles received Communion.

God Bless,
Gary

 

[gez722]

JKirkLVNV:

I originally received in the hand, switched to the tongue, but have been put off of it by the attitude of many on these threads that seem to suggest it’s higher or holier to rec. that way and they, therefore, are also higher and holier …

JKirkLVNV,
I agree with you. When I first started posing in these “tongue vs. hand” threads I thought that on the tongue was the way to go. It still is for me, but my eyes have been opened by many folks who reverently receive in the hand. The important thing is respect for Jesus, not how we choose to receive.

God Bless,
Gary

 

[SummaTheo]

I don’t think any less of people who receive the Eucharist in the hand, but what happens when people start stealing the Eucharist and putting it on ebay.

 

[Petertherock]

SummaTheo:

I don’t think any less of people who receive the Eucharist in the hand, but what happens when people start stealing the Eucharist and putting it on ebay.

The same thing that happens to people who recieved in the tounge and went back to their seats and took the Host out of their mouth and pocketed it and used the Body of Christ for a black mass.

People stealing the Body of Christ is nothing new. It has nothing to do with how someone recieves Jesus. If someone wants to steal the Body of Christ they will do it no matter what way they recieve.

 

[SummaTheo]

Petertherock:

The same thing that happens to people who recieved in the tounge and went back to their seats and took the Host out of their mouth and pocketed it and used the Body of Christ for a black mass.

People stealing the Body of Christ is nothing new. It has nothing to do with how someone recieves Jesus. If someone wants to steal the Body of Christ they will do it no matter what way they recieve.

I have heard of story like that which happened in the 1800s. Though it is a little harder because the saliva starts to dissentegrate the host. That person would have to run back to the pew and then take it out. You are right. If someone really wants to, he will.