POLL: How do you receive Communion?

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  • On the tongue
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  • Sometimes on the tongue and sometimes on the hand
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This is NOT a debate. I like stats and curious to know how CAF posters range.
 
I prefer to receive on the tongue. There is a church I attend sometimes during the week, where the Deacon only serves to the hand. I haven’t seen the Priest serve, here. He seems a little shaky, like he might have a neurological condition. I have never seen anyone take it on the tongue, there, from the Deacon I mentioned earlier. Is this unique?
 
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I don’t think it’s allowed. All faithful have the right to receive on the tongue. The deacon can’t decide he won’t give you communion that way.
 
I genuflect too - before receiving -
and every time, when I arise, even the Priest is there smiling -
( or the Eucharistic ministers )
They like seeing the head down genuflect and me receiving on the tongue.
 
Normally, at my own Byzantine Parish, it is in the mouth. ( On the tongue doesn’t really describe how we do it.) Usually, at Mass I receive on the tongue, but if I get a sense that it would really throw off the person who is distributing Holy Communion, I will receive in the hand. This is quite an unusual situation, but it has happened.
 
In the hand, except when I’m attending an Eastern Catholic parish.
 
What interests me is the closeness of the results.

Of course, I know there is a degree of self selection involved, but even so.

It really makes it clear how much CAF posters differ from the average Catholic.
 
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Old newsVatican City, Jun 25, 2008

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/pope_prefers_communion_on_the_tongue_msgr._marini_says

Receiving Eucharist kneeling will be norm at papal liturgies​

Jun 26, 2008

www.ncregister.com

Why Communion on the Tongue is More Suitable Than in the Hand

Here's why Communion on the tongue is, all things being equal, the most suitable manner of reception.
www.ncregister.com www.ncregister.com

Why Communion on the Tongue is More Suitable Than in the Hand

Here’s why Communion on the tongue is, all things being equal, the most suitable manner of reception.

http://w2.vatican.va/content/france...papa-francesco_20180321_udienza-generale.html

http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/details/ns_lit_doc_20091117_comunione_en.html
 
I’ve noticed at the Spanish language Masses, which are pretty big around here, almost everybody receives on the tongue. Including me, because I don’t want to break the priest’s rhythm. I’m good with either way.
 
I’m a little surprised on the tongue is in the lead. Since there are so many US posters here I would have expected in the hand to be in the lead.

I didn’t respond to your poll for obvious reasons, but come Easter, I’ll be another for on the tongue which is the norm at my parish. 😀
 
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I’m a little surprised on the tongue is in the lead.
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It’s because of the forum; if this were general population Catholics around the US, as @paperwight noted, we would see more in-the-hand, but this forum attracts more “on-the-tongue types”.
 
I usually receive on the tongue but if I have had a cold or there’s an outbreak of flu in the hand.
 
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I’m a little surprised on the tongue is in the lead. Since there are so many US posters here I would have expected in the hand to be in the lead.
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Note also that 21 percent of posters will do it sometimes one way and sometimes the other way. A lot of people may have a preference but really don’t care all that much and will just follow whatever everybody else is doing. I slightly prefer hand. But obviously when I’m at TLM I receive on the tongue. When I see most of the other people at Mass receiving on the tongue, I’ll receive on the tongue. I don’t give it a second thought. And I’m not going to make a big insistence that the priest or EMHC give me Jesus in my hand.
 
I received on the tongue for years and years and years. Then we switched parishes, and it’s just not as common at our new parish.

One Sunday I had a cold and decided to receive in the hand, making a “throne” with my hands and receiving Our Lord as King of my heart and my life. I have been receiving this way now for months, and honestly, it has been a beautiful spiritual experience. Go figure.
 
From a basic public health level…I prefer the hand. I’ve never seen a priest/deacon sanitizing his hands after each tongue delivery…I have seen them sanitize before distributing eucharist to all though…

Admittedly, I do take the wine, and imagine the quick wipe probably really isn’t sanitizing anything, but I’m usually one of the first 3 to 4 to receive…
 
I put in the hand. That’s because 99.99999999% of the time that’s how I’ve received. But at the same time I was okay with receiving on the tongue at one Mass where the priest was intincting the host.
 
In Korea, there is a cultural aspect. When I was using my wheelchair, I would go for mass for the sick in the hospital- and there, I would always have to receive it on the hand. Everyone in Korea receives it on the hand and as I was baptized in Canada, I tried to receive it on the tongue and the the nun refused to give the host to me. So, I use my hand in Korea…but in Canada, on the tongue, definitely.
 
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