How do YOU recieve Communion?

[Lapey]

From a priest.

Copts don’t use a spoon. The priest puts the Eucharist directly into your mouth. We use these little communion cloths (I’m sure they have a specific name, but I don’t know what it is) to put over our mouths while consuming, too. So when the priest puts in the Eucharist you have it under your chin just in case, and then once you’re chewing you move it up to cover your mouth, to make sure you do not spill any of it.

No deacons in the Coptic Christian Rite?

 

[Lapey]

RoseMary131;10436331:

Yup, me too… I bow down before the Holy Eucharist and then recieve Him on my hand… When I get back to my pew, I’ll lick my palm, index finger and thumb… Most of the faithful do that in my parish…

Quick question…if the concern of particles is so great, why not simply receive on the tongue? I am in no way saying that you have to, only wondering why not if it is of the concern that you obviously see. My question comes from my thoughts while I watch people for the most part receive on the hand with no regard for the particles, yet you realize this actuality. Just curious not trying to change what you do.

 

[Lapey]

Just wondering…

Only on the tongue. I used to receive in the hand then as I came close to ordination and served as an acolyte I received from the fractioned celebrants host most often and this allowed me to actually see the particles in my hand after I received. Then I too started licking my hands and trying to pick the pieces of Jesus with my other hand to consume Him. Then the thought came to me, if you this concerned about this just receive on the tongue! And I made the switch, about 5 years ago. I am now at peace when I receive.

PS. I too only receive from the priest celebrant. But this is because I am standing next to him at the altar!

 

[Zekariya]

In the mouth whether in a Western or Eastern parish. I don’t trust my hands and, I am an Eastern Catholic; that is how Eastern Christians receive Communion.

 

[aemcpa]

On the tongue and only from clergy. If at an OF Mass, I genuflect then receive standing. If at an EF Mass, I kneel to receive at the communion rail.

This is my answer as well. The insistence on one’s “rights” to handle the Blessed Sacrament smacks of American liberalism rather than Catholicism. Why do those who receive in the hand never speak of how it is spiritually preferable to receiving on the tongue?

 

[Melissa]

I receive on the tongue after a profound bow. I have nerve damage in one hand and I drop mundane objects all the time due to this problem, so I just don’t dare receive in the hand (me, personally–I have no problem w/ the practice and my children who aren’t similarly afflicted receive in the hand). My pastor alternates where he is, so every other week I receive from him, the other weeks I receive from an EMHC because we pretty much always sit in the same place every week.

 

[Zekariya]

No deacons in the Coptic Christian Rite?

There are ordained deacons in the Coptic Rite, though, there are also altar servers that take on the name of deacon even though they are not ordained deacons. It can be confusing at first to visitors.

 

[Brendan]

Kneeling and on the tongue.

In fact, in our parish, the offering of the Eucharist Intincted by a priest is the norm, so Church law precludes the reception of Holy Communion in the hand in such circumstances.

 

[Parisian]

Kneeling at the communion rail, on the tongue, by a Priest.

 

[garn9173]

Standing and in the hand. In my Parish, I have a 1 in 8 chance of receiving from a Priest. So I don’t have an issue with Eucharistic Minister’s distributing Communion.

 

[Jennet]

I’m receiving my first Holy Communion this Easter and I intend to receive it kneeling, on the tongue, and under one kind only.

This is not particularly because I’m a raging traditionalist. I’m quite happy at a well-celebrated novus ordo Mass. It’s just that this is important to me. Not because I think that those who receive standing and in the hand are being irreverent or doing it “wrong”; rather because it would just feel wrong for *me *to receive any other way. I look at covering my head in much the same way!

Unfortunately, I have yet to mention my intentions to my priest. When the matter was raised by someone in RCIA a few weeks ago, he seemed to suggest that he thought everyone should now be receiving in the hand and that those who didn’t were a bit, er, old-fashioned or over-sensitive. I know he can’t *refuse *me the host, but I don’t want him to think I am being awkward either. Anyway, please pray for me!

 

[maltmom]

I receive on the tongue by either my Priest or a EMHC.

 

[Eric_Olsen]

I do the same. on the tongue from the priest only.

Kneeling, on the tongue, and from clergy only - not from an EMHC.

 

[agnes_therese]

This is my answer as well. The insistence on one’s “rights” to handle the Blessed Sacrament smacks of American liberalism rather than Catholicism. Why do those who receive in the hand never speak of how it is spiritually preferable to receiving on the tongue?

I’ve never heard this ‘insistence on one’s “rights” to handle the Blessed Sacrament’. I do hear people saying “I follow what the Church, in her wisdom, has allowed.”

 

[Lapey]

I do the same. on the tongue from the priest only.

I guess this is my standard question, no deacons there? Deacons are ordinary ministers of Holy Communion.

 

[jediliz]

on the tongue. I NEVER receive in the hand because I am afraid I may not remember to check for fragments… I may have received on the hand ONCE in my whole life, maybe in teh 8th grade at an all 8th grade classes Mass…but I really can’t recall now.

I am dreading 1st communion Mass @ my sister’s parish in another diocese. They obviously teach in the hand only in 2nd grade as I noticed my 6th grade nephew when he went to communion this weekend at my parish, he received in the hand. Maybe they don’t encourage tongue? (a few people at their parish may receive on the tongue as I have observed before, but those are either visitors from my diocese or they are very traditional ). One time when I was forced to go to an EMHC at that parish, this woman was short and obviously NOT expecting a tongue!

 

[aemcpa]

I guess this is my standard question, no deacons there? Deacons are ordinary ministers of Holy Communion.

Most places don’t have deacons. There are fewer than 40,000 deacons in the whole world, compared to over 400,000 priests. A majority of the whole world’s permanent deacons are in the United States, but even here many parishes don’t have one, and they typically don’t serve at all the Masses in the places where they serve. I would be surprised if more than 20-25% of the Sunday Masses in the US had the services of a deacon, and worldwide it is almost certainly below 5%.

 

[Lapey]

Most places don’t have deacons. There are fewer than 40,000 deacons in the whole world, compared to over 400,000 priests. A majority of the whole world’s permanent deacons are in the United States, but even here many parishes don’t have one, and they typically don’t serve at all the Masses in the places where they serve. I would be surprised if more than 20-25% of the Sunday Masses in the US had the services of a deacon, and worldwide it is almost certainly below 5%.

You’re right, I am guilty of only thinking at my area. Thanks!

 

[aemcpa]

I’ve never heard this ‘insistence on one’s “rights” to handle the Blessed Sacrament’.

Then you haven’t even read all the way through this thread, much less through the other ones on this forum or hundreds and thousands of other commentaries in other places.

 

[frenchbeatle]

On the tongue, and I try to go to the priest. I don’t get any blank looks of confusion going to the priest.