Nothing “extra” is supposed to be added other than the required ingredients. Any extra addition would, minimally, make the substance illicit. The question of validity comes down to whether what is used changes the essential nature of the bread to something other than wheat bread. Would a little bit of honey or sugar as sweetener necessarily invalidate the substance, therefore? Probably not. Would using something other than wheat flour? Yes. Would using a heavy degree of shortening such that it is now a cookie and not bread? Yeah. Would putting in something really odd (date nuts, for example) invalidate? Yep. But a lot of the recipes which are typically promoted for use in homemade Eucharist bread in the Latin Church are iffy. (You can google up the recipes easily). It is probably not the case that they are invalid Eucharists, but the mere messing with the bread at all calls that into question. Which is why it ought not be done.
I have gone to Byzantine Rite Divine Liturgy twice. It was very reverant, and I liked the way the Eucharist was given by the priest. A friend of mine who is Byzantine Rite explained how the Eucharist is given and what I should do. Is the Eucharist given the same way in all of the Eastern Catholic Churches? The Divine Liturgy I attended was Byzantine Catholic. I would like to go to Maronite and Melkite Rite Divine Liturgies because there are parishes of those Rites close by, but I want to know about the Eucharist in those Rites.
The use of the spoon is also intinction.
I phrased it badly. It’s just that a Western Catholic going to an Eastern Church for the first time, may be a little “thrown off” when confronted with a spoon, instead of the outward appearance of a cube of bread dipped in wine.
no.
Do all the Eastern Rites give the Eucharist this way? So far, from my experience and what another poster said, this is how the Byzantine and Melkite Rites give the Eucharist. I am interested in going to a Maronite Rite Divine Liturgy. Does the Maronite Rite also give the Eucharist this way?
Both times I’ve received communion in the Maronite rite it was a typical “latin” host which the priest held in his hand and dipped into the Precious Blood and then placed on my tongue. No spoon was involved.
Do you know if the Maronite Divine Liturgy always uses unleavened hosts that are intincted? Or do they sometimes use leavened bread that is soaking in the wine like some of the other Eastern Rites use? Which other Eastern Churches use cubes of leavened bread soaking in the wine and administered with a spoon? I want to make sure I do the proper protocol to receive at the Maronite Church. Do I open my mouth and stick my tongue out, or open my mouth and lean my head back without sticking my tongue out?
The terminology “only wheat” is potentially problematic; other sites translate it “only wheaten”; I could not find it in latin at the Vatican website. (mondosearch wasn’t working).
No, I don’t know for certain. I’ve only attended a couple of times,
There is no Melkite rite, they are a part of the Byzantine Rite. The slavic Church in the Byzantine Rite use the spoon. The Melkties use the spoon for presanctified liturgy during Great Lent but most of the time they do inticition by hand. The bread is not cut into cubes, it is more of a rectangle.
There is some question as to this. Was it the Passover meal or not? The Gospel of John seems to have the Last Supper occurring before Passover.
Would it be best for me to just call the church before I go to the Divine Liturgy, tell them I am Latin Rite but wish to receive, and ask them the proper protocol?
Not a bad idea…I wish I would have done the same before I went to my first Divine Liturgy. I wasn’t expecting quite the whack on the toofs–maybe Father noticed my backwards Sign of the Cross and thought he’d teach that Latin boy a lesson
