How Do You Receive the Eucharist?

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On the tongue…and almost always TLM, thanks be to God!

“Other”? :confused:
The mind boggles!
Do you mean folks with celiac “disease”, etc, paralyzed/disabled people and similar?
 
On the tongue

less risk of it being dropped etc but it was what I was taught at confirmation class (1985) and stuck with it. We all stand in our church
 
At the OF, standing and in the hand as that is the norm at those parishes. Only one OF parish was I able to receive kneeling and on the tongue as they also have a rail, as the parish also hosts EF Masses periodically.

At the EF Masses that I am able to attend when I am able to: on the tongue and kneeling always.
 
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A poll for how people generally receive the Eucharist.
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I am in a line. When it is my turn, I bow my head, with open hand over other open hand, after they say body of Christ, I say Amen then that someone gives me the Eucharist

:crossrc:
 
In the hand since gradeschool, but after we left the church and came back and learned more reverence, on the tounge.
 
With a humble & contrite heart and a deep sense of wonder & awe in the glorious gift of salvation I am being allowed to share in. :signofcross:
 
Deo_Gratias42 said:
Other
Kneeling and on the tongue
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I think that would fit under the first option “on the tongue” since the OP doesn’t ask about our posture.

But I am curious as to what constitutes “other.” Intinction perhaps? That does fall under “on the tongue” but it is not very common…

Maybe the OP could clarify?

Anyway, on the tongue, standing. Then I receive from the chalice, standing also (I have never seen anyone receive the chalice kneeling) unless something prevents me. Sometimes there is no EMHC distributing the chalice for my “line,” possibly because they ran out of the Blood, (or ran out of EMHCs!). Today I did not receive from the chalice because I have a cut on my lip.
 
I put “other” - sometimes on the hand and sometimes on the tongue.
 
It depends.

Priest/Deacon/Bishop: Most of the time: on the tongue. Occasionally, in the hand.
Extraordinary Minister: in the hand.
 
PacoG said:
It depends.

Priest/Deacon/Bishop: Most of the time: on the tongue. Occasionally, in the hand.
Extraordinary Minister: in the hand.
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Just curious, why this way?

Sometimes I’ve heard people say that it’s because some EMHCs look confused or upset when you open your mouth, like they haven’t been trained to communicate that way. I’ve never personally experienced this.

Anyway, just wondering.
 
See quotes from Pope Benedict XVI (as Cardinal):

He notes in God and the World “I wouldn’t be fussy about it. It was done in the early Church. A reverent manner of receiving Communion in the hand is in itself a perfectly reasonable way to receive Communion” (pg 410)

"…we know that until the ninth century Communion was received in the hand, standing. That does not of course mean that it should always do so. For what is fine, sublime, about the Church is that she is growing, maturing, understanding the mystery more profoundly. In the that sense the new development that began after the ninth century is quite justified, as an expression of reverence, and is well founded. But, on the other hand, we have to say that the Church
could not possibly have been celebrating the Eucharist unworthily for nine hundred years. If we read what the Fathers say, we can see in what a spirit of reverence they received Communion…

We should be concerned only to argue in favor of what the Church’s efforts directed toward, both before and after the ninth century, that is a reverence in the heart, an inner submission before the mystery
of God that puts himself into our hands…"

Cardinal Ratzinger “God Is Near Us” Ignatius Press Pg 70 2001

Have a blessed Lords Day!
 
There are many practical reasons for receiving on the tongue, and I find no compelling reason to ever receive in the hand.

As to the Pope’s claim about communion being received in the hand in the early church: I think there is mixed evidence, if anything, it was not the norm after the 4th century.

A souce: franciscan-archive.org/apologetica/tongue.html
Contrary evidence: Pope St. Leo the Great
(440-461) is an early witness of the traditional practice. In his comments
on the sixth chapter of St. John’s Gospel he speaks of Communion in the
mouth as the current usage: “One receives in the mouth what one believes by
faith.”.
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Pope St. Gregory the Great (died in 604) in his dialogues he relates how Pope St. Agapitus performed a miracle during Mass, after having placed the Body of the Lord into
someone’s mouth.
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In his article on “Communion” in the Dictionaire d’Archeologiae
Chretienne, Leclerq declares that the peace of Constantine in 313 A.D.
served toward bringing the practice of Communion in the hand to an end.
After persecution had ceased, evidently the practice of Communion in the
hand persisted here and there. Church authority apparently judged that it
invited abuse and deemed it contrary to the custom of the Apostles
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Reasons to receive on the tongue:
  1. Less chance of particles falling to the ground or being left in the hand
  2. Much less chance of someone walking off with a host and committing a sacrilege
  3. It seems to have been the norm for at least 1600 years (see above), and then communion on the hand was only permitted via an indult for English speaking countries.
  4. As far as I know, communion on the tongue is still the universal law of the Western Church, and it is only by indult that communion in the hand is allowed (in certain locations). Just as the English speaking world should not set ourselves about by saying “We Believe” in the creed, we should not set ourselves apart from the universal church in this manner.
  5. Communion in the hand came about via disobedience.
Reasons to receive in the hand:
???
 
anp1215 said:
Just curious, why this way?

Sometimes I’ve heard people say that it’s because some EMHCs look confused or upset when you open your mouth, like they haven’t been trained to communicate that way. I’ve never personally experienced this.

Anyway, just wondering.
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From the way I see it: the bishop/priest/deacon’s hands are blessed. They are ordinary ministers. I see it as a recognition of their authority and the command to feed Our Lord’s sheep (us, the laity) .

The EMHC’s hands are the same as mine. They are just deputized.
 
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