How to receive the precious blood?

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I am a new Catholic and have only been receiving communion since Easter. Our RCIA teachers helped us practice on receiving both the body and blood of Christ. My question is one of logistics. After I receive the body, there isn’t enough time to finish it before receiving the precious blood. I know we are not supposed to return to our seats with the host still in our hands, but should I simply put the body host in my mouth, receive the precious blood and then chew the precious body? it seems wrong to only partially chew the body before receiving the second host, but that is what I have been doing.

I’m sorry if I am using inappropriate language here. I just want to be sure I’m doing everything correctly when I receive communion. I’ve watched our pastor who seems to chew very quickly after receiving the precious body, but I’ve been unable to do it that quickly.

Thanks for any help you can give.
 
Well, I don’t have any diffrent advice to give you other than try to keep the partially consumed host to the side of your mouth while taking a drink. I struggle with this too, but I don’t know what else we can do. I’d be interested in hearing other peoples’ ideas.
 
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I am a new Catholic and have only been receiving communion since Easter. Our RCIA teachers helped us practice on receiving both the body and blood of Christ. My question is one of logistics. After I receive the body, there isn’t enough time to finish it before receiving the precious blood. I know we are not supposed to return to our seats with the host still in our hands, but should I simply put the body host in my mouth, receive the precious blood and then chew the precious body? it seems wrong to only partially chew the body before receiving the second host, but that is what I have been doing.

I’m sorry if I am using inappropriate language here. I just want to be sure I’m doing everything correctly when I receive communion. I’ve watched our pastor who seems to chew very quickly after receiving the precious body, but I’ve been unable to do it that quickly.

Thanks for any help you can give.
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I simply place the Host in my mouth, I don’t chew, and receive the Precious Blood, allow the Precious Blood to soak into the Host for a few seconds and then swallow it.
 
Communion can be given by intinction. The priest (or extraordinary minister) dips the Body of Christ into the Blood of Christ and says “The Body and Blood of Chirst” before placing them on the person’s tongue. So obviously there is no problem in having both in the mouth at once and consuming them together.

From the 2002 General Instruction of the Roman Missal (GIRM) approved for the USA, which can be accessed from romanrite.com/girm.html :
“287. If Communion from the chalice is carried out by intinction, each communicant, holding a communion-plate under the chin, approaches the priest, who holds a vessel with the sacred particles, a minister standing at his side and holding the chalice. The priest takes a host, dips it partly into the chalice and, showing it, says, Corpus et Sanguis Christi (The Body and Blood of Christ). The communicant responds, Amen, receives the Sacrament in the mouth from the priest, and then withdraws.”

From the 2004 Instruction Redemptionis Sacramentum:
“[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]”
Footnotes:[191] Missale Romanum, Institutio Generalis, n. 245.
[192] Cf. ibidem, nn. 285b and 287.
 
As long as you don’t self-intinct…that is dip your host into the precious blood and then consume it.

As Catholics, only priests can self-communicate…we as lay faithful or even deacons must wait to receive communion from either an ordinary minister of communion, a priest or deacon or from an extraordinary minister of communion…a trained and commissioned lay minister of communion.

WELCOME HOME TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
 
Thanks for all the responses. It’s great to find this site and forum, where I can learn more and grow in my faith.

At my church, we receive each host separately, so I will try the suggestion placing the body host to the side of my mouth, receiving the blood, and allowing the blood to soak into the body and then swallow.

Again, thanks to everyone for your interest and help:D
 
pmoo said:
Thanks for all the responses. It’s great to find this site and forum, where I can learn more and grow in my faith.

At my church, we receive each host separately, so I will try the suggestion placing the body host to the side of my mouth, receiving the blood, and allowing the blood to soak into the body and then swallow.

Again, thanks to everyone for your interest and help:D
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Depending on the diameter of the Host I would not necessarily try to swallow it whole. I wouldn’t want you to choke! I tend to after a few seconds to simply fold the host in my mouth to make it easier to swallow.
 
Keep in mind also that in the Eastern Rites, they use levened bread that is cube sized and put into a chalice with the Precious Blood. When you receive the Sacrament, you are receving the Body and Blood together, and it is placed into your mouth by the priest via a golden spoon.

This certainly adds to the precedent that it’s OK to consume the Precious Blood while the Body is still in your mouth.
 
Again, thanks to everyone for helping me receive communion. At my church, the host is about the size of a quarter, maybe larger. However, today at our 8AM mass, I followed the suggestion to move the body host over to the side of my mouth until receiving the blood. It worked, and I like this method much better. Previously, it felt awkward and just not right in some way. Now, I feel I am being much more reverential.:angel1:
 
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