Intinction: COMMUNICANT holds the paten?

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This is purely speculative. I’m curious about the following from the GIRM:
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.
I checked the Latin, and sure enough, “holding” is the right translation of tenens. I really expected the English to be a mistranslation (I would think that each communicant would have a paten held under his or her chin, not that they would be holding the paten themselves).

Can anyone hazard a guess to why that is? Does anyone attend a parish where intinction is done? Does the communicant hold the paten or does another minister?
 
I receive by intinction. An altar server stands at the side of the priest and holds the paten under my chin. The priest holds both the vessels for the Body and Blood, a second minister is not holding the chalice as seems to be indicated in your citation from the GIRM.
 
japhy said:
This is purely speculative. I’m curious about the following from the GIRM:
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.
I checked the Latin, and sure enough, “holding” is the right translation of tenens. I really expected the English to be a mistranslation (I would think that each communicant would have a paten held under his or her chin, not that they would be holding the paten themselves).

Can anyone hazard a guess to why that is? Does anyone attend a parish where intinction is done? Does the communicant hold the paten or does another minister?
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I do not know, no have ever seen intinction in a Latin parish. However in the Byzantine Rite the faithful approach the priest who is holding the chalice with both the Body and Blood. A deacon assists the person to hold a long purificator under their which is held at one end by the priest at the base of the chalice. But it is the person that hold the other end.
 
BeeSweet said:
I receive by intinction. An altar server stands at the side of the priest and holds the paten under my chin. The priest holds both the vessels for the Body and Blood, a second minister is not holding the chalice as seems to be indicated in your citation from the GIRM.
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Is this done with a special set of vessels designed for intinction (like found here)?
 
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