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

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ILoveYeshua said:
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 🙂
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No doubt you will be flagged for such . . .

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It is liturgical law, a different form of ecclesiastical law. However, your point is moot, because regardless of where the reception of communion is regulated, the fact remains that communion in the hand is and indult. And as @Bushum pointed out, the indult’s intention was to legalize an already-existing abuse as a compromise, so that those engaging in the practice (illicitly at first) would no longer be sinning through disobedience to the Church. Furthermore, he is correct in defining an indult as a relaxation of the certain law. And as I said in my previous post, the toleration of a practice contra legem does not in any way imply that the legislator views the contrary practice as a positive good in itself, but rather an exception made necessary in order to avoid a greater evil.
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To understand the allowance for the rite of Communion in the hand and it’s origins is to understand the environment in western Europe and the effects of the division between Protestants and Catholics. To this day in that region, the scars of division are still being dressed especially in relation to the huguenots history.

Pope St Paul VI was well aware of the need for healing in that area and Vatican II’s main goal was working on Christian unity. Hence, to understand his allowance regarding reception of Communion, takes in all those many factors. We English speaking westerners tend to have an insular anachronistic perception of how the whole thing ‘went down’ and look down our noses as the ‘liberal’ Europeans and their ‘abuses’ and ‘disobedience’. I think we should give our universal Church more credit for her decisions than simply that she took the weak stance of folding in order to prevent a greater evil.
 
AlmaRedemptorisMater said:
Methinks the emerald lady doth protest too much
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Perhaps you should read my post which was not in any way a personal attack on the 15 day long member. I was contributing in the same fashion with facts and observations. The fact that the member went postal on me with complete distortions is the members issue. I’ve got no intention of engaging that sort of behaviour.
 
Out of interest foes anyone receive the blood if Christ without touching the chalice? I remember some old people when I was younger that did.
 
Gingersnaps4 said:
I feel like if it werent reverent, Jesus would have had the apostles put out their tongues at the last supper.
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Interesting I ran across This article which suggest that the Apostles might have received on their tongues.
 
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Nelka said:
Out of interest foes anyone receive the blood if Christ without touching the chalice? I remember some old people when I was younger that did.
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Really? That’s interesting. I’ve never seen reception from the chalice like that before. Did the priest/EM tip the chalice to the communicant’s lips while they received? Seems kinda dangerous. I see a big hazard of spilling the Precious Blood that way.
 
Emeraldlady said:
I hope we don’t go back to receiving on the tongue in my lifetime because we are so aware of how transfer of saliva communicates germs and disease. When only a few people choose to do it, it seems benign but I would struggle knowing that I’m receiving the transfer of the whole congregations saliva.
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Do you also have a problem drinking the Precious Blood from the Chalice after the entire congregation before you has already done so? If you do not, then I have to ask if you have ever seen a presentation on what actually happens to the liquid inside of a vessel whenever someone drinks from any kind of cup, glass or chalice? You might want to look it up, if you have a strong stomach.

When Communion is properly given on the tongue, the Priest is always very careful about how he does it. All he does is place the host on the tongue, without touching the tongue at all.

So, your argument against Communion on the tongue doesn’t really hold up, especially if you’re also inclined to receive under both species.
 
In the hands, because receiving Jesus in the tongue I have dropped Him quite a few times. I do not want to drop him any more.
 
Telstar said:
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Emeraldlady:
I hope we don’t go back to receiving on the tongue in my lifetime because we are so aware of how transfer of saliva communicates germs and disease. When only a few people choose to do it, it seems benign but I would struggle knowing that I’m receiving the transfer of the whole congregations saliva.
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Do you also have a problem drinking the Precious Blood from the Chalice after the entire congregation before you has already done so? If you do not, then I have to ask if you have ever seen a presentation on what actually happens to the liquid inside of a vessel whenever someone drinks from any kind of cup, glass or chalice? You might want to look it up, if you have a strong stomach.

When Communion is properly given on the tongue, the Priest is always very careful about how he does it. All he does is place the host on the tongue, without touching the tongue at all.

So, your argument against Communion on the tongue doesn’t really hold up, especially if you’re also inclined to receive under both species.
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Oh it isn’t my argument against Communion on the tongue. It’s my personal reasoning for preferring in the hand. If the Church were to mandate on the tongue I would obediently accept a return to the practice.

No, I don’t take the chalice unless I happen to be the first in line. I could never even finish of a drink my children had when they were young. The thought of the backwash is ewww. That is my personal issue though.
 
Yay! A post on topic.

I receive in the hand, as I find it more reverent, seeing as I keep my head bowed. It’s a protestant convert thing, I think.
 
Perhaps; the idea of receiving on the tongue (which I’ve done many times) causes me anxiety more often than not for fear of dropping Him. I’m not so prone to that in my hands.
 
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