How Do You Receive the Eucharist?

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tafan said:
You can “vote with your feet” at times.
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Surely some could vote with their knees as well.👍
Actually I like that as a bumper sticker politically. “you can vote with your knees” and a picture of someone praying.
 
Moore11 said:
… if not then I think it a little hypocritical to criticize people for kneeling before their God.
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Considering the topic of this thread, criticizing anyone is rather silly. It’s supposed to be about how we each* individually* receive communion, not a critique of each other.
 
anp1215 said:
Hmm. I’ve never heard that before.

That’s the old GIRM.

Here is the updated GIRM:

The norm established for the Dioceses of the United States of America is that Holy Communion is to be received standing, unless an individual member of the faithful wishes to receive Communion while kneeling (Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Instruction, Redemptionis Sacramentum, March 25, 2004, no. 91).
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Thankyou that helps a lot, I have found your quote on a web page, do you have a link to the document. The document you referenced is a vatican document that is not the GIRM, althrough it does address the issue.
 
pnewton said:
Considering the topic of this thread, criticizing anyone is rather silly. It’s supposed to be about how we each* individually* receive communion, not a critique of each other.
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I have not been trying to criticize anyone.
 
tafan said:
Thankyou that helps a lot, I have found your quote on a web page, do you have a link to the document. The document you referenced is a vatican document that is not the GIRM, althrough it does address the issue.
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Hi, actually that is the GIRM #160. This is the updated version that went into effect when the changes in the English Mass went into effect in Advent last year. I’m not really sure why that document is referenced after.
 
Thanks everyone, the new USCCB norm helps a lot. I had not seen that wording before, so I stand corrected. It does not seem to be an issue of obedience to our Bishops at all to receive kneeling at the NO mass. My apologies for all of the outdated confusion.

Now if someone could explain 1004 to me, in light of CCC paragragh 1520 to me (as opposed to paragraph 1532) Sorry, different thread 🙂
 
tafan said:
Thanks everyone, the new USCCB norm helps a lot. I had not seen that wording before, so I stand corrected. It does not seem to be an issue of obedience to our Bishops at all to receive kneeling at the NO mass. My apologies for all of the outdated confusion.

Now if someone could explain 1004 to me, in light of CCC paragragh 1520 to me (as opposed to paragraph 1532) Sorry, different thread 🙂
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You are welcome.
 
Depends on whether I’m at an Ordinary Form or Extraordinary Form Mass: “When in Rome, do as the Romans do,” that sort of thing.
 
anp1215 said:
Hmm. I’ve never heard that before.
That’s the old GIRM.

Here is the updated GIRM:

The norm established for the Dioceses of the United States of America is that Holy Communion is to be received standing, unless an individual member of the faithful wishes to receive Communion while kneeling (Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Instruction, Redemptionis Sacramentum, March 25, 2004, no. 91).
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Thanks. I knew that the GIRM posted was outdated, but I wanted to see what sort of responses I’d get on the CITH (Plus, I didn’t feel like looking it up at the time!). I must say, however, that the wording is rather… eh… strange. A person is to stand unless he kneels. Right. Why not just say that a person can use whatever posture (standing or kneeling) that he prefers? It’d sound so much better.
 
The_Curt_Jester said:
Thanks. I knew that the GIRM posted was outdated, but I wanted to see what sort of responses I’d get on the CITH (Plus, I didn’t feel like looking it up at the time!). I must say, however, that the wording is rather… eh… strange. A person is to stand unless he kneels. Right. Why not just say that a person can use whatever posture (standing or kneeling) that he prefers? It’d sound so much better.
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Yes, the wording is weird. Who knows.
 
anp1215 said:
Yes, the wording is weird. Who knows.
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Since this is a “fix” of the wording from the last edition, it looks to me like they wanted to add that one clause “unless an individual member of the faithful wishes to receive Communion while kneeling” without changing anything else in the sentance.
 
PacoG said:
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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Ummmm…no. A priest in the Roman Rite has his hands consecrated (not blessed) for the purpose of confecting the Eucharist (a bishop is a priest). A deacon does not have his hands consecrated. And priests in the Eastern Churches also do not have their hands consecrated.

Therefore the deacon’s hands are no different than the EMHC, and yours. What sets the deacon apart from you and the EMHC, is that due to his ordination, he is an Ordinary Minister of Holy Communion. That makes him higher up in the pecking order.
 
The_Curt_Jester said:
On the tongue (and kneeling) whether at the TLM or NO. Never from an EMHC either!
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So, if you are ever in a hospital or nursing home/rehab center, or home-bound or a shut-in, you won’t receive Communion? Because in the above situations, the person most likely to bring the Eucharist to you is an EMHC. We have less clergy, so the Ordinary Ministers are being stretched to the limit, and often delegate Communion Calls to the EMHC who is able to carry out this ministry.
 
ClayPots47 said:
So, if you are ever in a hospital or nursing home/rehab center, or home-bound or a shut-in, you won’t receive Communion? Because in the above situations, the person most likely to bring the Eucharist to you is an EMHC. We have less clergy, so the Ordinary Ministers are being stretched to the limit, and often delegate Communion Calls to the EMHC who is able to carry out this ministry.
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The question in the poll specified “at Mass”. The presence of at least one priest is assured. 😉
 
Thank you all for polling and commenting. 🙂 To clarify my “other” option, to be honest I don’t know what I hand in mind as another means of reception. 😛 I guess I just left it open for any possibilities. And, as for posture I was specifically asking about tongue or on the hand, but by leaving Other available I learned that some also receive kneeling, so that is education for me. 😃 God bless
 
I always receive on the tongue. I have partial paralysis in my right hand (no sense of feel in index and middle fingers, sometimes my motor skills are very lacking), and based on the number of times I drop mundane things like ink pens, keys, umbrellas, and inability to manage small objects–I just feel that in the hand is too much of a risk for me. Especially at a time like this–I have some sort of injury to my right index finger (I have no recollection of getting it, I just can see it) and my finger is balkier than usual at moving.
 
I’ve only seen one person kneel for Communion and receive on the tongue at a Daily OF Mass. She made sure she was near the very end of the line as to not hold up anyone and the priest had no issue with that. Plus, this parish has no Communion rail either. It would be awkward for me to do that due to me being larger and having knee issues.
 
ClayPots47 said:
So, if you are ever in a hospital or nursing home/rehab center, or home-bound or a shut-in, you won’t receive Communion? Because in the above situations, the person most likely to bring the Eucharist to you is an EMHC. We have less clergy, so the Ordinary Ministers are being stretched to the limit, and often delegate Communion Calls to the EMHC who is able to carry out this ministry.
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I certainly didn’t read it like you did. We are talking about how we recieve not how we might recieve in some kind of circumstance in the future.🤷
 
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