How do you receive the Body of Christ?

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choy said:
my current parish has pews to the right of the altar where the EMHCs as well as the lectors sit
to the left are pews for the choir

come to think of it, the last parish i go to doesn’t have a pew reserved for EMHCs. but they still schedule EMHCs ahead of time and they’re all needed. its a huge parish anyway, there’s 6 sunday masses and only 2 priests. both priests are present during Communion and are assisted by 6 EMHCs. there’s at least 1000 people by my estimate, as the Church is quite big and its always “standing room only” every Sunday Mass

yes, it would be more preferable to have more priests and deacons. i too didn’t approve the use of EMHCs at first, but have come to realize the necessity for them. and i’d rather have this problem in my parish (the necessity of too many EMHCs) rather than have only one priest in the parish and not have the necessity of EMHCs (meaning there’s only a handful of people at Sunday Mass)
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You’re lucky to have a parish that is so full of life, so full of people. I understand what you are saying about which problem you’d rather have. Just think, you or I could live somewhere that doesn’t have mass every week. I would find that very hard, I think.

We need to pray for more vocations. :gopray:
 
Pug said:
You’re lucky to have a parish that is so full of life, so full of people. I understand what you are saying about which problem you’d rather have. Just think, you or I could live somewhere that doesn’t have mass every week. I would find that very hard, I think.

We need to pray for more vocations. :gopray:
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actually, my current parish now is half full. the last one i described was my former parish which is the church is 3x bigger, and is always brim full of people for every mass. sometimes i’m surprised how the priest is still able to say Mass at 7pm. every Mass is concelebrated by both priests
 
Pug said:
You’re lucky to have a parish that is so full of life, so full of people.
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Yes, then everyone should be EMHC and all should be gathered at the altar distributing communion to one another. That would be luck indeed. :rolleyes:
 
ProVobis said:
Yes, then everyone should be EMHC and all should be gathered at the altar distributing communion to one another. That would be luck indeed. :rolleyes:
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:eek:

I didn’t mean the abundance of EMHC. I was glad for that many people in the pews. For that many faithful. Choy metaphorically mentioned “standing room only”. I am the sort of person who gets all excited on Easter Vigil when 30 new people enter the Church. My comment was a manifestation of that aspect of my personality. It is in keeping with my earlier comment on the thread about deacons. Getting a new deacon at our parish was great cause to thank the Holy Spirit, so I get happy about it and it stays high up in my awareness for a few weeks.

I detest the standing around the altar, holding hands, giving communion to each other idea. Not that you said holding hands, but that is part of my image of that sort of thing.
 
choy said:
actually, my current parish now is half full. the last one i described was my former parish which is the church is 3x bigger, and is always brim full of people for every mass. sometimes i’m surprised how the priest is still able to say Mass at 7pm. every Mass is concelebrated by both priests
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That concelebration fact is interesting. It is rather unusual to see in my parish on a typical Sunday. Sometimes another priest will pop in at communion time, though.
 
LookingForFaith said:
I recieve the Eucharist with the full knowledge that I am in no way worthy to recieve such a gift. That being said, I recieve in my hand. Simply because I was raised to do so. But if the rule was changed and COTT was the only way to do so, I would.

In the end, it’s not really all that important. Receiving on the hand or on the tongue. Is one way really better than the other? I mean, Jesus didn’t feed the bread at the last supper to the apostles. He handed It to them. I can see how people think that COTT is more reverent, but it’s the intent and what’s in your heart that God is paying attention to.

Just my :twocents:
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Well said my friend.:blessyou:
 
Pug said:
That concelebration fact is interesting. It is rather unusual to see in my parish on a typical Sunday. Sometimes another priest will pop in at communion time, though.
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the way they do it, one priest leads the Liturgy of the Word until the homily, then leaves. the other priest then presides over the next half of the Mass. then just before communion, the other priest returns

they alternate every mass, and alternate every week. so the priest who’s the main celebrant for 11am this week will be the concelebrant for 11am next week.
 
I recieve the Eucharist with the full knowledge that I am in no way worthy to recieve such a gift. That being said, I recieve in my hand.
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The nuns did not teach this. They taught “I before E except after C”. 🙂
 
Ockham said:
In summary, the Church for most of its history did think the manner of reception mattered and made COTT the norm as a higher form of reverence. Yes what’s in your heart is important but the external form is too. I was taught CITH too but after my own research learned and now practice COTT.
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This was my experience as well. A major factor in my changing was learning that the Pope only allows COTT at his Masses. That really got me thinking that this does matter.
 
choy said:
the way they do it, one priest leads the Liturgy of the Word until the homily, then leaves. the other priest then presides over the next half of the Mass. then just before communion, the other priest returns

they alternate every mass, and alternate every week. so the priest who’s the main celebrant for 11am this week will be the concelebrant for 11am next week.
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That alternation each week sounds fair. I read a cool, concelebration factoid recently:
VATICAN CITY, JUNE 10, 2010 (Zenit.org).- When the 15,000 priests who are in Rome to close the Year for Priests gather for Friday’s papal Mass, the Eternal City will witness a first in its history: the Eucharistic celebration with the greatest number of concelebrants.
15,000 concelebrants. That’s abundance.
 
Pug said:
That alternation each week sounds fair. I read a cool, concelebration factoid recently:
VATICAN CITY, JUNE 10, 2010 (Zenit.org).- When the 15,000 priests who are in Rome to close the Year for Priests gather for Friday’s papal Mass, the Eternal City will witness a first in its history: the Eucharistic celebration with the greatest number of concelebrants.
15,000 concelebrants. That’s abundance.
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So many concelebrants; yet so many parishes without priests. 😦
 
I was taught CITH in RCIA as the only option; COTT was not mentioned. I did my own research, though, and since baptism and confirmation have received only COTT. I have never received CITH. I recently started receiving while kneeling (all of this in the OF).

When I read that the Holy Father wants all Catholics to receive kneeling and on the tongue, that was good enough for me.

I cannot think of a more appropriate posture to receive the Creator and Lord of the universe. Prostrate, perhaps, but it’d be tough to receive. 😃
 
Pug said:
That alternation each week sounds fair. I read a cool, concelebration factoid recently:
VATICAN CITY, JUNE 10, 2010 (Zenit.org).- When the 15,000 priests who are in Rome to close the Year for Priests gather for Friday’s papal Mass, the Eternal City will witness a first in its history: the Eucharistic celebration with the greatest number of concelebrants.
15,000 concelebrants. That’s abundance.
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wow, thats a lot of concelebrants

i wonder how many EMHCs they would have
 
GwenL said:
I was taught CITH in RCIA as the only option; COTT was not mentioned. I did my own research, though, and since baptism and confirmation have received only COTT. I have never received CITH. I recently started receiving while kneeling (all of this in the OF).

When I read that the Holy Father wants all Catholics to receive kneeling and on the tongue, that was good enough for me.

I cannot think of a more appropriate posture to receive the Creator and Lord of the universe. Prostrate, perhaps, but it’d be tough to receive. 😃
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Ditto!

Amen Brother Ben! (jokingly saying) smile

Although I used to receive CITH, I changed to CITT several years ago. I was taught by watching some of the elderly who I could see were so humble and very close to the Lord. It moved my heart so much that I immediately start receiving on the tongue. I now kneel as well.
 
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