How to receive the Precious Blood

[fin]

in the past, ive experienced receiving the Sacred Host in my hand, then dipping the Host in the Precious Blood. I’ve read somewhere here that it is considered liturgical abuse. Unfortunately, that was a sort of common procedure at the chapel i attended.
if so, how does a person receive the Precious Blood, whenever it’s being offered during Holy Communion.?

 

[puzzleannie]

Receive the host, preferably on the tongue, but in the hand is acceptable. Consume it immediately, chewing if necessary, and swallow. Then go to the station where the minister of the cup is standing. Take the chalice from the minister, who says Blood of Christ. Respond Amen and take a small sip, really just a taste. In Eastern Rite churches the procedure is different and has been described many times on that forum. If you never drank wine before, please taste it beforehand so the taste does not surprise you into an inappropriate gesture. This is essential for parents preparing children for first communion.

 

[Walking_Home]

in the past, ive experienced receiving the Sacred Host in my hand, then dipping the Host in the Precious Blood. I’ve read somewhere here that it is considered liturgical abuse. Unfortunately, that was a sort of common procedure at the chapel i attended.
if so, how does a person receive the Precious Blood, whenever it’s being offered during Holy Communion.?

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You are correct. We the laity are not to dip the Host in the Precious Blood. A person can either drink from the Chalice directly or receive a by intinction. Intinction can only by done by a priest–and the person receives on the tongue.

vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccdds/documents/rc_con_ccdds_doc_20040423_redemptionis-sacramentum_en.html#Chapter%20III

[103.] The norms of the Roman Missal admit the principle that in cases where Communion is administered under both kinds, “the Blood of the Lord may be received either by drinking from the chalice directly, or by intinction, or by means of a tube or a spoon”.[191] As regards the administering of Communion to lay members of Christ’s faithful, the Bishops may exclude Communion with the tube or the spoon where this is not the local custom, though the option of administering Communion by intinction always remains. If this modality is employed, however, hosts should be used which are neither too thin nor too small, and the communicant should receive the Sacrament from the Priest only on the tongue.192]

[104.] The communicant must not be permitted to intinct the host himself in the chalice, nor to receive the intincted host in the hand. As for the host to be used for the intinction, it should be made of valid matter, also consecrated; it is altogether forbidden to use non-consecrated bread or other matter.

 

[otjm]

. If this modality is employed, however, hosts should be used which are neither too thin nor too small, and the communicant should receive the Sacrament from the Priest only on the tongue.

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I see that you highlighted “Priest only” and I am presuming you are reading that as “only from the priest”. It seems to me, however, that what it says is “Only on the tongue”, as in, not in the hand.

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[Teelynn]

I am a cradle catholic. Grew up in Catholic School being taught by nuns. If you were caught even looking like you were chewing the host, you would have a long talk with Sr. Eugene…and NO ONE wanted to have a long talk with Sr. Eugene. We were taught UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES COULD YOU CHEW THE HOST. You would allow the host to melt in your mouth and then swallow it. “How dare anyone even think of chewing the Precious Body!!” To this day, I absolutely cannot chew the host. And when I see other people chewing the host, I cringe!! Goes to show you how impressionable we are when we are little and being taught how to receive The Lord.

 

[Catholig]

Receive the host, preferably on the tongue, but in the hand is acceptable. Consume it immediately, chewing if necessary, and swallow. Then go to the station where the minister of the cup is standing. Take the chalice from the minister, who says Blood of Christ. Respond Amen and take a small sip, really just a taste. In Eastern Rite churches the procedure is different and has been described many times on that forum. If you never drank wine before, please taste it beforehand so the taste does not surprise you into an inappropriate gesture. This is essential for parents preparing children for first communion.

Puzzleannie,

I thought you weren’t meant to chew…

Catholig

 

[Walking_Home]

I see that you highlighted “Priest only” and I am presuming you are reading that as “only from the priest”. It seems to me, however, that what it says is “Only on the tongue”, as in, not in the hand.

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Every reference that concerns intinction—says the priest performs the intinction.

 

[Walking_Home]

Puzzleannie,

I thought you weren’t meant to chew…

Catholig

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Catholig—I know you asked this of Puzzleannie–but allow me to answer. Many of us back in the day—were taught to let the Host soften in our mouth --then swallow. I still do this. Later on–people were taught to chew. Both forms --chewing–not chewing are fine. What matters is that we receive our Lord.

 

[fin]

thanks for the information. i hope that chapel i attended would change their ways. I was thinking of informing them so that they’d know. had i known at that time it was liturgical abuse, I wouldn’t have dipped in the Prwecious Blood anymore.

 

[puzzleannie]

Puzzleannie,

I thought you weren’t meant to chew…

Catholig

Christ said my Body is real food and my Blood is real drink.
Yes you can chew if necessary, in fact if you are going to receive from the cup you will probably have to so that you are not drinking with food in your mouth.