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

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Online_Knight said:
Isn’t intinction a bad idea because of the likelihood of the Precious Blood of our Lord dripping off of the Body and onto the floor? Are there steps taken to prevent this from happening? If not, I am against intinction completely.
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A Communion-plate (paten) must be employed; in fact, a paten should always be used, no matter what the mode of reception is.
 
Affirmative…

As for a paten I have not seen one used in years…

james
 
Online_Knight said:
Isn’t intinction a bad idea because of the likelihood of the Precious Blood of our Lord dripping off of the Body and onto the floor? Are there steps taken to prevent this from happening? If not, I am against intinction completely.
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not when done properly with vessels designed for the purpose, not anywhere near the risk of allowing several hundre people to handle the chalices.
 
and if the blood of our lord should fall to the floor ,who cleans it up.
 
robert_ambrose said:
and if the blood of our lord should fall to the floor ,who cleans it up.
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The altar servers knee on the floor with candles on both sides of the drop of Blood. The priests will figure it out. Probably get a clean purificator, collect the drop from the floor, and bury the purificator or something to the like. (at least that is what some of the old priests i know would do. Old priests tend to know whats up better then younger ones, by old I mean 70+)
 
zagjames said:
The altar servers knee on the floor with candles on both sides of the drop of Blood. The priests will figure it out. Probably get a clean purificator, collect the drop from the floor, and bury the purificator or something to the like. (at least that is what some of the old priests i know would do. Old priests tend to know whats up better then younger ones, by old I mean 70+)
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The after wiping up the spill the purificator would be thoroughly rinsed in the sacrarium (sp?) and laundered as usual.
 
Eilish_Maura said:
The after wiping up the spill the purificator would be thoroughly rinsed in the sacrarium (sp?) and laundered as usual.
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Yes but because the sacrarium has to drain directly into the dirt, it is equivelent to burying the purificator. I know several priests who would feel it better to discard a purificator if the precious Blood has touched it. And by discard, I mean in the way any holy thing should be discarded, by being returned to the earth.
 
zagjames said:
Yes but because the sacrarium has to drain directly into the dirt, it is equivelent to burying the purificator. I know several priests who would feel it better to discard a purificator if the precious Blood has touched it. And by discard, I mean in the way any holy thing should be discarded, by being returned to the earth.
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They may need to re-evaluate that kind of thinking - it may have touched the Precious Blood but it was not ruined nor broken or other reason something would be buried.
 
zagjames said:
Yes but because the sacrarium has to drain directly into the dirt, it is equivelent to burying the purificator. I know several priests who would feel it better to discard a purificator if the precious Blood has touched it. And by discard, I mean in the way any holy thing should be discarded, by being returned to the earth.
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But don’t most purifictors have the Precious Blood touch them? Does the priest not wipe the chalice after purifying it with water? Surely sometimes this would be imperfectly done and some Precious Blood (albeit somewhat diluted) would end up on the purificator? :confused:
 
Eilish_Maura said:
They may need to re-evaluate that kind of thinking - it may have touched the Precious Blood but it was not ruined nor broken or other reason something would be buried.
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I think it is because some of them grew up altar serving in parishes in very rural areas that didn’t have perfect facilties, or served as priests in WW2 and Korean War and their pragmatic ways of doing things in situations that are less then perfect have carried over to today. I would guess thats where they would be coming from.
 
LilyM said:
But don’t most purifictors have the Precious Blood touch them? Does the priest not wipe the chalice after purifying it with water? Surely sometimes this would be imperfectly done and some Precious Blood (albeit somewhat diluted) would end up on the purificator? :confused:
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they shouldnt be getting any on them, but to be sure they are always washed in the sacrarium
 
NOT ME!

Fear of drippage.

Also “do this in memory of me”

Jesus didn’t say “This is my Blood, have a dunk!”

No objection to those who would, but I just couldn’t.
 
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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YES
 
Communion at daily Mass in my parish is always by intinction, with a paten. My husband was received into the Church this Easter and his first communion was via intinction. So, yes, yes, yes, I wish Fr. would distribute communion this way at every Mass.👍
 
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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Yes.
 
I’d like to see intinction adopted widely, and not as a communicant’s noption, but as the only means of administering communion. Why? Because it completely eliminates the option of reception in the hand.

This is the practice in my parish.
 
Brenda_V said:
puzzleannie is correct here. Only the Priest or Deacon is allowed to give via intinction. Someone quoted in a pp the correct method. That means no EMHC’s allowed to help out

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True, there’s a silver lining in every cloud isn’t there.🙂

I think that intinction would be such a messy way of receiving. The priest would have to actually dip the consecrated host into the wine & then give it to the communicant. That would be my only worry about intinction.
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Jakub said:
Affirmative…

As for a paten I have not seen one used in years…

james
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Niether have I, more’s the pity. But then, I don’t see the reverence for the Body of Christ that I saw during the years when they used a paten. In my opinion, this is not simply a coincidence.

When the laity began receiving in the hand, standing to receive with no paten, reverence began to fade.
 
CradleCath said:
I think that intinction would be such a messy way of receiving. .
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It’s not. As I (and others) have mentioned before, it is the standard way of recieving in our parish, and the ONLY way of recieving in most of the Eastern Catholic Churches.

There are often special patens for it.

Here is a pic of my daughters First Holy Communion. You can see the priest’s paten with the chalice inserted. (my son is the altar boy holding the recipients paten)

forums.catholic-convert.com/download/file.php?mode=view&id=4001
 
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