If intinction was made an option at your parish, would you use it?

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I think I’m missing something here… If an EMHC can distribute not only the consecrated Hosts but also the cups of Precious Blood, then why could they not distribute Holy Communion by intinction (especially if they were using the intinction set seen in the link noted above)? I’m confused. Can someone please explain?

Anyway, I was never comfortable with the intinction method. I was always afraid the Precious Blood would drip down my chin! (It never did, thank God.)

Additionally, I’ve read that there have been no documented cases of disease transmission causes by drinking from the cup of Precious Blood.
*“Dear God, do You know the greatest grief one of Your creatures can bear? It is the thought that she can never love You enough. ” *- St. Gemma Galgani
 
GemmaRose said:
I think I’m missing something here… If an EMHC can distribute not only the consecrated Hosts but also the cups of Precious Blood, then why could they not distribute Holy Communion by intinction (especially if they were using the intinction set seen in the link noted above)? I’m confused. Can someone please explain?

Anyway, I was never comfortable with the intinction method. I was always afraid the Precious Blood would drip down my chin! (It never did, thank God.)

Additionally, I’ve read that there have been no documented cases of disease transmission causes by drinking from the cup of Precious Blood.
*“Dear God, do You know the greatest grief one of Your creatures can bear? It is the thought that she can never love You enough. ” *- St. Gemma Galgani
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You must be an ordinary minister of the Holy Communion, to mix the species.
 
GemmaRose said:
I think I’m missing something here… If an EMHC can distribute not only the consecrated Hosts but also the cups of Precious Blood, then why could they not distribute Holy Communion by intinction (especially if they were using the intinction set seen in the link noted above)? I’m confused. Can someone please explain?

Anyway, I was never comfortable with the intinction method. I was always afraid the Precious Blood would drip down my chin! (It never did, thank God.)

Additionally, I’ve read that there have been no documented cases of disease transmission causes by drinking from the cup of Precious Blood.
*“Dear God, do You know the greatest grief one of Your creatures can bear? It is the thought that she can never love You enough. ” *- St. Gemma Galgani
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Probably because they are the extraordinary minister, which means that they are not permitted to change or do anything to the Sacred Species except distribute it. Only the ordinary minister, the priest, may touch it for any other function(even though, technically, no one should really touch it anyway, except on their tongue). To let EMHCs do it takes them from a minister of Holy Communion to a minister of the Eucharist, as they are physically doing things to the Host…and it makes them seem more ‘ordinary’, rather than ‘extraordinary’ as they are supposed to be.
 
GemmaRose said:
Additionally, I’ve read that there have been no documented cases of disease transmission causes by drinking from the cup of Precious Blood.
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You don’t do enough reading. 😉

(And how would you expect it to be “documented” in any case? “I have partaken of the common cup and later had a cold”??)

cf. [post=1824552]Re: Karl Keating’s E-Letter of January 16, 2007[/post] (also: the latter half of the post it references, not to mention the E-Letter itself)

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Brian_Millar said:
I was a a methodist service once and they had little paper cups on a tray with grape juice in it for that purpose, that seemed to be a good way to go, more like what you would do as a caterer, it reminded me of that as I saw them spread out on a platter.
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Being a Military Brat we shared our Chapel with the Protestants as well so I got to see the little glass and/or plastic containers they used for the symbol of the Precious Blood that got left behind every so often so I once asked a good Holy Sister why we didn’t do it this way and she pointed out to me the nightmare of making sure all that Precious Blood was washed properly as well as the time it would take to do so. Made a whole lot of sense to me.

Brenda V.
 
I most certainly would receive the Body and Blood by intinction. The Eastern Rites do it now. I don’t receive the Blood of Christ by drinking from a common cup. It just is not sanitary to do so. But if the Church did start allowing the option of intinction, I sure hope they make it mandatory to use a paten and/or communion cloth so none of the Precious Blood spills.
 
mbywb said:
But if the Church did start allowing the option of intinction, I sure hope they make it mandatory to use a paten and/or communion cloth so none of the Precious Blood spills.
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It already is mandatory.
 
japhy said:
I meant in regards to intinction.
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I saw intinction used at an inner-city parish in Detroit; it’s the only method of distribution that they use. This parish also used patens and a communion rail.

However, I’ve never in my entire life seen intinction used anywhere else*, even though I know that it is an approved method and has been for centuries.

*I’m not including the occasional times that I’ve seen communicants self-intinct, since I know this is illicit.
 
yes i would receive via intinction if our parish began this practice.
 
I am Latin rite Catholic, but I have received by intinction at Eastern rite Catholic Masses. I would have no problem with it in the Latin rite. I no longer receive the Holy Eucharist under both species since I do not think it is sanitary to drink from the same cup as other people. Even though it is the Sacred Blood of Christ, germs can be on the edge of the cup. I know of priests, who are loyal to the Majesterium of the Church, who do not recommend it either.
 
i don’t know if there is any difference- right or wrong receiveing holy communion directly to our tongue by the priest or by our own hand. :confused:
hope you ppl out there can generously share your knowledge bout it with me. Thanks:)
 
Lepanto said:
Regardless of your current method (tongue/receiver vs. hand/taker or chalice/skipper vs. chalice/drinker)…would you change your communion method to intinction if it was offered as an option?
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well, as many disgusted , distribution of Holy communion depend for the type of people or t6he pastoral zone. If there is huge number of people like in my parish - Sudan, ofcause you have to save time otherwise we have to follow instruction of Jesus :Do this in memory of me. the body and blood need to be taken both to reflect our acceptance ; suffering and died with our lord.
 
zagjames said:
You must be an ordinary minister of the Holy Communion, to mix the species.
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No, but I wish I was. 😉
muffinmojo said:
Probably because they are the extraordinary minister, which means that they are not permitted to change or do anything to the Sacred Species except distribute it. Only the ordinary minister, the priest, may touch it for any other function(even though, technically, no one should really touch it anyway, except on their tongue). To let EMHCs do it takes them from a minister of Holy Communion to a minister of the Eucharist, as they are physically doing things to the Host…and it makes them seem more ‘ordinary’, rather than ‘extraordinary’ as they are supposed to be.
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Thanks for the explanation (instead of sarcasm)… I guess that’s what confuses me - I was looking at intinction as another method of the distribution of both Species by an EMHC and thus allowable, rather than intinction as “physically doing something to the Host.”
tee_eff_em said:
You don’t do enough reading.😉

(And how would you expect it to be “documented” in any case? “I have partaken of the common cup and later had a cold”??)

cf. Re: Karl Keating’s E-Letter of January 16, 2007 (also: the latter half of the post it references, not to mention the E-Letter itself)

tee
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Hey, all I remember is that about 20 or more years ago I read that somebody somewhere did a study and that there were no documented illnesses caused by a Communion cup in the Catholic Church. Even though I’m “icky” about such things, that article put my mind at ease and I decided then to trust the Lord that if I received His Precious Blood that I wouldn’t get sick from the cup, and have received from the cup, when offered, ever since, and have never gotten sick. (I do not receive from the cup when I am sick, however.)
*“Dear God, do You know the greatest grief one of Your creatures can bear? It is the thought that she can never love You enough. ” *- St. Gemma Galgani
 
GemmaRose said:
Hey, all I remember is that about 20 or more years ago I read that somebody somewhere did a study and that there were no documented illnesses caused by a Communion cup in the Catholic Church. Even though I’m “icky” about such things, that article put my mind at ease and I decided then to trust the Lord that if I received His Precious Blood that I wouldn’t get sick from the cup, and have received from the cup, when offered, ever since, and have never gotten sick.
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Okay.
GemmaRose said:
(I do not receive from the cup when I am sick, however.)
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Ummmmm…

Have you “never gotten sick” (in the last 20 years)? Or do you “not receive from the cup” when you are sick?

Which is it? :confused:

tee
 
tee_eff_em said:
Okay.

Ummmmm…

Have you “never gotten sick” (in the last 20 years)? Or do you “not receive from the cup” when you are sick?

Which is it? :confused:

tee
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Sorry for the confusing post! :o

In the past 20 years or so, I can count the number of colds I’ve had on one hand, and when I have them, I do not receive from the cup. If I’m not mistaken, each and every time I’ve gotten a cold in the past 15 years, it was because my boss insists on coming in to work with the most slobbery of colds (even though he admonishes us to stay home if we’re sick - which we would do if we had a salary comparable to his earnings) and spreads it to the entire office.
*“Dear God, do You know the greatest grief one of Your creatures can bear? It is the thought that she can never love You enough. ” *- St. Gemma Galgani
 
After I received treatment for cancer, my immune system seemed to be lower. I found that when I was taking from the Cup, I had more colds, etc. I thought nothing of it until I read an article by a priest, I think in the Homeletic and Pastoral Review, that he had had similar experiences-- more illnesses when he received from the Cup when he was not serving Mass. Perhaps it was the cancer treatment that gave more a lower immune system for a few years, or I might have gotten it from some older child who was coming down with an illness and drank from the Cup. I don’t know. I do know that our bishop does not allow certain types of distribution of the Sacred Species during strong flu seasons, so it does not sound too heathy to me. Also, the cold sore virus, as far as I know, can be gotten from cups. I have never had a cold sore, and I do not want to get one. I receive the Host on the tongue most of the time, and I have no problem receiving by intinction since it is very sanitary.
 
I think you all know this–but just in case you don’t–please know that drinking from the chalice is NOT necessary.

I personally never do, for various reasons (not just hygiene). Yet, per Catholic doctrine, I still receive the entire body, blood, soul, and divinity of Christ when I receive the consecrated host.*

*On the tongue, of course. 😉
 
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