Individuals Practicing Intinction Allowed?

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I was out of town this weekend and found a parish to go to Mass on Sunday.

I was disturbed to find individual practicing Intinction (Dipping the consecrated host into consecrated wine) I saw one person do it and thought it was very odd then noticed many other take Communion in the hand then walk over to the extraordinary minister and dip the consecrated host into the consecrated wine. Some made sure it did not drip by scraping the host on the edge of the “Glass Challis” others just put their hand under the host in case it dripped.

I take the host on the tongue because I do not think I am worthy to hold my God in my hands, and that is my decision, but I am sure that it is not respectful and may even be blasphemy to allow the precious blood to drip on either the hand or the floor.

I think I have to at least send the Paster a letter and maybe even to the Bishop.

Is this practice wide spread, I was in Southern California, and this was the first time I have seen it.

Please help,

Divine_Mercy
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Divine_mercy said:
I was out of town this weekend and found a parish to go to Mass on Sunday.

I was disturbed to find individual practicing Intinction (Dipping the consecrated host into consecrated wine) I saw one person do it and thought it was very odd then noticed many other take Communion in the hand then walk over to the extraordinary minister and dip the consecrated host into the consecrated wine. Some made sure it did not drip by scraping the host on the edge of the “Glass Challis” others just put their hand under the host in case it dripped.

I take the host on the tongue because I do not think I am worthy to hold my God in my hands, and that is my decision, but I am sure that it is not respectful and may even be blasphemy to allow the precious blood to drip on either the hand or the floor.

I think I have to at least send the Paster a letter and maybe even to the Bishop.

Is this practice wide spread, I was in Southern California, and this was the first time I have seen it.

Please help,

Divine_Mercy
:gopray:
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From the General Instruction on the Roman Liturgy:
The faithful must receive the Eucharist from a priest, deacon, or extraordinary minister; self-communicating is not permitted for the faithful (GIRM 160). (Specifically, self-intinction, whereby a layperson dips his/her own host into the communion chalice, is strictly prohibited).
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salinadiocese.org/bulletin%20inserts.htm
 
The following may be helpful if writing a letter. From the 2004 Instruction Redemptionis Sacramentum:

“[104.] The communicant must not be permitted to intinct the host himself in the chalice, nor to receive the intincted host in the hand.”

Regarding concerns about dripping the Precious Blood the Communion Plate is described as being used when receiving the Body and Blood of Christ by intinction.

From the 2002 General Introduction to the Roman Missal (GIRM) 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.”
 
Maybe your last paragraph says it all. Southern California has a couple of dioceses that are certainly marching to a drummer that isn’t a resident of Vatican City.😦
 
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