How often is Christ's blood offered at your parish?

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Edward_H said:
I have no desire to receive from the chalice at all. I receive Our Lord fully and completely each Mass I go to, and I go daily.
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No problem with that in the least.
 
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I almost never receive the Precious Blood, but I don’t think if fair to say those who receive both are ignorant of the Faith. No doubt many are. There is a problem of catechisis. No doubt many are in the matter of Jesus’ body, blood, soul and divinity being present in both. But many people do know this and choose to receive both, as is their right when offered.
 
Every Catholic Church I have attended on Ohio including my home parish it was every Mass. I now live in Florida and its the same.
 
Always. This is the Diocese of Western Oregon, USA
It would be interesting to know where we are all located here on CAF, in knowing each’s locale, these various answers would be a lot more meaningful.
Most of the forums I am on give the member the option to include his location under his screen name.
 
Edward_H said:
Well their faith isn’t informed by documented Church teaching.

They either don’t “give assent” (definition of faith) to the teaching on the Real Presence/Transubstantiation or they don’t understand their faith…or they give in to “feelings” thinking that they’re doing something other than getting in two lines!

I have no desire to receive from the chalice at all. I receive Our Lord fully and completely each Mass I go to, and I go daily.
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My faith is very well formed and is continuing to be formed on a daily basis. I think your statement that those of us who choose to receive both are either ignorant of Church teaching and show a lack of faith is insulting. You can do what you like, but you don’t get to tell the rest of us we are doing something wrong.

My parish does offer both at every Mass and I receive from both almost always. Right now I refrain from receiving the blood as I have a cold sore on my lip.
 
Why is the first response of “well formed” people to take immediate personal offense?

Well formed people are formed not just about doctrine, but they’re also formed about how to do apostolate, how to pursue the human virtues, how to develop a lively interior life (such that they are not buffeted about by the world and comments…they have a deep and unshakeable mooring in the KNOWLEDGE that they are children of God).

A great priest I know said “we shouldn’t be always complaining and taking offense…in fact we never should complain or take umbrage”. He also said that we need to learn to “minimize even interior complaint.”

So I doubt the first part of your sentence.
 
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You do not know me so your judgments about me are irrelevant. I really do not care what your opinion is of my faith and my faith journey. So you can doubt my first sentence all you want. I know who I am and where I stand with God.

Obviously you have issues which make it possible to insult anyone who does not immediately acquiesce to your will. You have issues with those who receive from both species for whatever reason. Might be an overabundance of pride? A little of holier than thou? You will get the last word here as people like you always have to have the last word. I will not respond.
 
Well you told us you’re well formed, and that you also took personal offense at a not-personally aimed comment.

So it’s a rational act to draw out some conclusions on my own.
 
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Here it is offered usually every Mass.

I haven’t been to one where it hasn’t been offered.
 
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The Precious Blood is offered at Easter in my parish and daily to anyone who has celiac disease.
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What is it with the pandemic of celiac disease? I guess there were always people unable to eat bread, but it really seems to have grown.
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People are living longer. Those who have celiac don’t often have anaphylactic shock reactions but are constantly subject to poor health, inflammatory diseases (like arthritis) and bowel disorders. The people who are now living healthy lives would have succumbed to any number of illnesses before…most of them “unrelated” to diet.

And not to be crude, but it also gives people the chance to breed…and pass on their bad genes.
 
I wish I could trust other people with cold sores to refrain from the cup.
 
Sunbreak said:
My parish never offers this.
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Its a real problem for a priest to figure out how much wine to buy for this purpose. What makes it difficult is that its all supposed to be consumed at the mass- it isn’t like the Hosts which can be saved for a future mass if too much is consecrated.
 
My parish only distributes the Precious Blood at daily mass. We do not receive it on the Sunday or Holy Day liturgies, not at any other mass where our main Church is used instead of the Chapel.

Basically, we only get to receive the Precious Blood when mass is in our chapel.

A few other parishes in my area never distribute the Precious Blood, one in my area always does it.
 
I think now celiac is now diagnosed, where I suspect in the past someone may have just had “digestion trouble” or some unknown illness bogging somebody down all the time, or just diagnosed as anemic without knowing the cause of the anemia.
 
Loud-living-dogma said:
I think now celiac is now diagnosed, where I suspect in the past someone may have just had “digestion trouble” or some unknown illness bogging somebody down all the time,
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What puzzles me is that before the current era, and even now in many parts of the world, bread is a staple without which, a lot of people would starve.

A lot of places don’t have all sorts of different foods we take for granted now.

If celiac and the inability to properly digest wheat was a genetic disorder, I would think it would have died out centuries ago, at least in those areas without non-gluten based staples
 
Well, although people may be genetically pre-disposed to getting it, it isn’t necessarily a fatal disease, at least not at a young age. So people have time to have children, even if they have the illness. I suppose this would have been especially true when people had children at a younger age than they do now.
 
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