How do YOU recieve Communion?

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Lapey said:
I guess this is my standard question, no deacons there? Deacons are ordinary ministers of Holy Communion.
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My church has one in formation. I believe he’ll be ordained next year. One other church in our area has a deacon. I’ve actually never attended Mass where a deacon was present.
 
Standing, in-hand, like everyone else at Mass. And I would never lick my hands after communion. Gross. If there are no discernible pieces of Eucharist left behind (and why would there be with a typical round host?) then there is no Eucharist.
 
Usually I receive standing and in the hand after a profound bow.

It does not matter to me one way or another who I receive from.

For those of you who say you will only receive from a priest, I hope none of you ever end up in an elder-care situation where the only way you may receive communion with any regularity is from an EMHC, who is usually a woman! :eek:

I work in a skilled nursing facility, where the majority of our residents are Catholic, and we are lucky if we get a priest to come celebrate Mass once a year. If it were not for a wonderful group of women who volunteer their time 2 times a month, our residents may have no connection what-so-ever to the Church.
 
Standing and on the tounge. I usually receive from the priest or deacon because of where I sit.
 
agnes_therese said:
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.”
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Why don’t those people follow what the Church prefers rather than what it allows?

Communion in the hand is only allowed by indult.
 
kyria said:
In the hand and I bow before receiving Our Lord, and I don’t mind receiving from an EMHC.
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This is what I usually do too. 🙂 Unless I got my hands dirty or something. I have to say receiving on the tongue makes me a bit nervous, and that distracts me from prayer because I’m not the most coordinated person
I’ve never experienced or heard of anyone being surprised or upset by people receiving on the tongue, priest or EMHC, though- not even during the swine flu scare.
 
JackieMom said:
So is the TLM in many parishes.
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Incorrect. The Extraordinary Form has never required an indult as it was never abrogated.

It can be celebrated by any priest without the permission of his ordinary.
 
JackieMom said:
Standing, in-hand, like everyone else at Mass. And I would never lick my hands after communion. Gross. If there are no discernible pieces of Eucharist left behind (and why would there be with a typical round host?) then there is no Eucharist.
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My parish uses a concelebration host which is then broken into 24 pieces. There is always the possibility of visible particles which is why I check. And not all round hosts have sealed edges. For a long time we got our Hosts from the good Sisters who baked a host with crumbly unsealed edges. We always had to check for particles with those.

It’s no worse to lick off crumbs than to actually receive the Host in your hand and then put it in your mouth.
 
JackieMom said:
You’re right. It WAS.
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There are many such as The Latin Mass Society in England & Wales who have always contested that an indult wasn’t required. Pope Benedict XVI in Summorum Pontificam supported this position when he confirmed that the Mass of Pope John XXIII had never been abrogated.
 
Tounge
Standing
Profound bow (but with further consideration I may just genuflect instead)
Priest or properly consecrated hands
 
Kneeling, on the tongue, and from clergy only - not from an EMHC. 👍
 
Phemie said:
My parish uses a concelebration host which is then broken into 24 pieces. There is always the possibility of visible particles which is why I check. And not all round hosts have sealed edges. For a long time we got our Hosts from the good Sisters who baked a host with crumbly unsealed edges. We always had to check for particles with those.

It’s no worse to lick off crumbs than to actually receive the Host in your hand and then put it in your mouth.
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Well, I hope hand lickers don’t touch anything after communion. I do NOT want to use the hymnal after that person. Yuck.
 
JackieMom said:
Well, I hope hand lickers don’t touch anything after communion. I do NOT want to use the hymnal after that person. Yuck.
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As opposed to those who’ve been blowing their nose, run their hands through their hair, have patted the dog before they left the house, been drooled on by their baby?

Boy, you’d never have received Communion from the priest we had for 3 years at the beginning of the century! We just kept our eyes closed to avoid seeing where his hands were before he gave out Communion, that way we avoided gagging.
 
Whatever way is customary at the Mass I am attending, from whoever the presider sends out. With reverence and awe.
 
Kneeling on the tongue. Though, I don’t really care if it’s the Priest, Deacon or EMHC giving it to me. If the church says it’s fine for these people to distribute communion, then it’s fine with me.
 
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