Poll: How do you typically receive the Body of Christ?

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Is asking what your favorite color is a can of worms?

There should be no controversy because there are many ways to receive communion.
 
I do not feel worthy to touch the Body of Christ with my hand, and I have always had this fear of mishandling the Chalice and spilling the Precious Blood. Those are the reasons, I accept on my tongue with folded hands.
 
I was told to receive the Body with my hands in preparation for my First Communion, but I like to receive on the tongue nowadays. See? We can be civil here on CAF 🙂
 
Prior to receiving on my tongue, I usually genuflect rather than just bowing. I do this just as the person in front of me is receiving Communion.
 
I receive at the communion rail kneeling and on the tongue. The way the Holy Mother Church decreed we were to receive for centuries (and the way we still should).
 
That’s the way we did it back when I celebrated my First Communion. But that was a looooooooooooooong time ago. 😇
 
babochka said:
Communion in the hand is not an indult and has not been for decades. Whatever your opinion on the prudence of the decision by the Church, it is time to stop spreading this misinformation.
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Please show me when and how this stopped being an indult. If you are correct then I will stop saying it. I have been so far unable to find any source confirming what you said.
 
pnewton said:
A self-contradictory phrase, as canon 93 is also canon law. It is actually an allowance within canon law.
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Canon 85-93 simply allows for dispensation defined as the relaxation of canon law. You are playing word games. Communion in the hand was a relaxation of the law to allow for an abuse that was already occurring to be made licit.
 
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Canon 85-93 simply allows for dispensation defined as the relaxation of canon law. You are playing word games. Communion in the hand was a relaxation of the law to allow for an abuse that was already occurring to be made licit.
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Pointing out a logic error is not a word game. Canon Law is a service of the Catholic Church, not the Jewish Pharisees.
 
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I said it was an allowance to break the law. Canon 93 allows for a dispensation to relax and ignore an established law. You know what I mean but you insist on continuing to play word games. As proof of this you have not even addressed the actual point or even attempted to refute it. Instead you choose to focus on semantics.
 
I receive on the tongue when receiving from a priest (which is 95% of the time) and by hand if not receiving from priest.
 
Typically I have received right over left (I’m left handed), but I am working in switching to tongue. That said I have done left over right (weird and requires more focus on that), and I probably spent several Masses/service (I believe it was Easter weekend) while wanting to implement a switch (to the tongue) but not having the courage (I’m 17 and didn’t want my parents and their 50 questions if you get my meaning) and since then, I by default switched back this Sunday in part because I was Altar serving and it slipped my mind.
 
As far as I am aware, it 1) is still an indult, and under present rules once granted to a person, it cannot be taken away, presumably the CCL could be changed to prohibit the indult (or just a Vatican decree) and then the indult could be revoked, but a priest or deacon on their own can’t prohibit it.
 
I am afraid non-priests will drop the host when trying to put it in my mouth.
 
I typically ‘receive the Body of Christ’ with ‘Great Adoration and Devotion’ while in the ‘Presence of Christ’.
 
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