My Church doesn't give the congregation the Blood of Christ! Why?

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My Church doesn’t give the congregation the Blood of Christ, only to the Priest himself. He gives only the Body of Christ to us. Don’t they go hand in hand? Like you’re not receiving Jesus totally?
 
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My Church doesn’t give the congregation the Blood of Christ, only to the Priest himself. He gives only the Body of Christ to us. Don’t they go hand in hand? Like you’re not receiving Jesus totally?
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No, it’s not necessary because in receiving either the host or from the chalice you are receiving Christ entire.
 
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My Church doesn’t give the congregation the Blood of Christ, only to the Priest himself. He gives only the Body of Christ to us. Don’t they go hand in hand? Like you’re not receiving Jesus totally?
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We receive the total whole Christ—Body, Blood, Soul, Divinity and all His grace by receiving one species alone (either the Host or the Precious Blood).

Ps. Look up the Utraquist heresy.
 
Matthew 26:27
Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you.
 
From the CCC
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The Eucharistic presence of Christ begins at the moment of the consecration and endures as long as the Eucharistic species subsist. Christ is present whole and entire in each of the species and whole and entire in each of their parts, in such a way that the breaking of the bread does not divide Christ.207
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Yup–the all of you was to the Apostles, our first Bishops and priests.
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Who was present with our Lord Jesus at the Last Supper. Was it not the Apostles. The all of you–was said to the Apostles–who became our first priests/Bishops. They (the priests/Bishops) still receive both species.

Did you look up the Utraquist heresy?
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It is not necessary to receive both species… One suffices to receive wholly the sacrament… It is HERESY to think other wise…

In the Host there is Jesus’ Body Blood Soul and Divinity… they cannot be separated from His glorified body which we receive.
 
CherishNY said:
My Church doesn’t give the congregation the Blood of Christ, only to the Priest himself. He gives only the Body of Christ to us. Don’t they go hand in hand? Like you’re not receiving Jesus totally?
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The Church, centuries ago, stopped giving the Chalice to the lay faithful to correct the misunderstanding you seem to have (based on your post here). The Eucharist is not the dead body and blood of Christ. It is the living, resurrected body and blood of Christ. A living body is not living for very long unless it has blood. Blood doesn’t stay alive for very long outside of a body. Since Jesus has died, and risen again- and will never die again, the body and blood cannot be separated. The Eucharist we receive in the Host is as complete as it is in the chalice. The chalice is often only received by the priest for practical reasons- it’s not always good to have one person drinking from the same cup, and when a liquid is being distributed, there is always the risk of spilling it. When that liquid happens to be the Body and Blood of Christ, that’s more of a problem than just a stained carpet or a slippery mess. A dropped host is much simpler to deal with- the priest just picks it up, and makes sure no crumbs fell (which there shouldn’t be any, if the hosts are of good enough quality).
 
Walking_Home said:
Who was present with our Lord Jesus at the Last Supper. Was it not the Apostles. The all of you–was said to the Apostles–who became our first priests/Bishops. They (the priests/Bishops) still receive both species.
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His/her point was, why do non-priests receive AT ALL, since Jesus said “take this, all of you” to the Apostles about the “bread” and the “wine”. In other words, if “take this, all of you, and drink from it” is exclusive to the Apostles (bishops/priests), why is the “take this, all of you, and eat it” not exclusive to them?
 
The Byzantine Churches (Catholic and Orthodox) DO receive under both kinds as a matter of fact, and NOBODY has accused them of holding to the Ultraquist heresy.

Exception–usually babes in arms receive only the Precious Blood.
 
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The Byzantine Churches (Catholic and Orthodox) DO receive under both kinds as a matter of fact, and NOBODY has accused them of holding to the Ultraquist heresy…
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That might be true, but then I’ve never seen any Byzantine Catholics complaining when the Liturgy of the PreSanctified Gifts is offered. No, they have universally been grateful to be recieving Our Lord in the Mystery of the Eucharist in any form whatsoever.

I’ve seen far too many Roman Catholic complain when only one species is offered, or thinking that they are ‘missing out’ on something.
 
bpbasilphx said:
The Byzantine Churches (Catholic and Orthodox) DO receive under both kinds as a matter of fact, and NOBODY has accused them of holding to the Ultraquist heresy.

Exception–usually babes in arms receive only the Precious Blood.
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Well there you go—has any Eastern complained the babes are not receiving Holy Communion completely, enough, totally, etc. —that the little ones are being cheated. This kind of “ideology” is becoming more, and more visible within the Latin Rite. Utraquism is part of our Latin history and the return of the Chalice to laity --from what now is becoming more clear --rebirth it.
 
CherishNY said:
but He also says “take this, all of you and eat it, this is my body”

So I’m not understanding what you mean…
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And all the laypeople (I hope) who are present don’t do that either - those who are in mortal sin certainly need to refrain, same with those who haven’t fasted for an hour before Communion, those who aren’t Catholic, kids who haven’t made their first Communion and so on …

For that matter, I doubt Judas took the Eucharist either. How could he while in grave sin?

Moral of the story - ‘all’ doesn’t mean literally every single last one … rather like the ‘all’ of Jerusalem and Judea who went to see John the Baptist clearly doesn’t.
 
japhy said:
His/her point was, why do non-priests receive AT ALL, since Jesus said “take this, all of you” to the Apostles about the “bread” and the “wine”. In other words, if “take this, all of you, and drink from it” is exclusive to the Apostles (bishops/priests), why is the “take this, all of you, and eat it” not exclusive to them?
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Because Jesus said ‘unless you eat the flesh of the son of Man and drink His blood you will not have life within you’. That much is true.

The Church, in its spirit-guided power-of-binding-and-loosing sorta way, has defined that particular passage of scripture for us, such that we know that we need not receive at every Mass, nor need we receive the Precious Blood, to fulfil it.
 
Well, put it this way:

What, apart from the tangible Matter, do you think you’ll be deprived of if you don’t get both species?

See?
 
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