Preventable loss of the Blessed Sacrament

[SacredHeartFan]

Not to someone who’s found this thread for the first time.

Besides, musicmantg11’s post caused this topic to come back to the more current listings of posts. Maybe it was the Lord’s way to bring it to the attention of someone who is new to CAF and who really needs to learn to check his or her “paten hand.”

Ok the horse is recoving from it’s heart attack!

 

[GemmaRose]

Ok the horse is recoving from it’s heart attack!

 

[Lepanto]

We use commercially made “anti-crumbly” hosts in my parish.

As a sacristan, I am amazed daily at how many crumbs I see in the ciboria after Mass. I mean MANY, MANY crumbs.

I can only guess how many countless crumbs end up trampled on the floor by people who receive Jesus in the hand.

It truly is appalling that communion in the hand is still tolerated. We say that the Eucharist is the “body of Christ”, yet we certainly don’t treat it that way.

 

[GemmaRose]

I had a VERY strange experience once.

I was at Mass during my lunch hour in lower Manhattan, and I noticed something on the floor, just beyond my reach, next to where the side/end of the pew meets the floor.

For all the world it looked like the rim of a Host (like a very slim crescent moon). I could hardly concentrate on the Mass because one half of my brain kept saying, "That’s part of a Host! " while the other half was saying, “It can’t be… What did somebody do - bite into it and drop what was left?”

I knew that the only way I could reach it was to get out of the pew and get on my knees in the aisle and reach around for it, and I didn’t want to disrupt the Mass in any way, especially since I wasn’t sure what it was.

As soon as Mass ended, I got up, and in what I assume looked like a really strange genuflection, I picked it up **AND IT WAS PART OF A HOST !! **

(I hadn’t called the Priest to come and pick it up because I really had convinced myself that my eyes must have been playing a trick on me and because of the size and shape of the fragment, it certainly couldn’t have been a piece of a Host, so I didn’t want to bother Fr. A.)

I immediately went into the sacristy, and I was so unhinged by the experience that I could barely speak. I whisphered, “Fr. A - look what I found!”

I gave him the Sacred Fragment, kissed my hand, and went back to work.

To this day, I can’t figure out how you can bite into a Host (and these were the smaller white hosts, not the larger whole wheat ones), leave a crescent moon shape, have it not crack and break apart, and then lose it on the floor.

 

[Joannm]

I had a VERY strange experience once.

I was at Mass during my lunch hour in lower Manhattan, and I noticed something on the floor, just beyond my reach, next to where the side/end of the pew meets the floor.

For all the world it looked like the rim of a Host (like a very slim crescent moon). I could hardly concentrate on the Mass because one half of my brain kept saying, "That’s part of a Host! " while the other half was saying, “It can’t be… What did somebody do - bite into it and drop what was left?”

I knew that the only way I could reach it was to get out of the pew and get on my knees in the aisle and reach around for it, and I didn’t want to disrupt the Mass in any way, especially since I wasn’t sure what it was.

As soon as Mass ended, I got up, and in what I assume looked like a really strange genuflection, I picked it up **AND IT WAS PART OF A HOST !! **

(I hadn’t called the Priest to come and pick it up because I really had convinced myself that my eyes must have been playing a trick on me and because of the size and shape of the fragment, it certainly couldn’t have been a piece of a Host, so I didn’t want to bother Fr. A.)

I immediately went into the sacristy, and I was so unhinged by the experience that I could barely speak. I whisphered, “Fr. A - look what I found!”

I gave him the Sacred Fragment, kissed my hand, and went back to work.

To this day, I can’t figure out how you can bite into a Host (and these were the smaller white hosts, not the larger whole wheat ones), leave a crescent moon shape, have it not crack and break apart, and then lose it on the floor.

As an EMHC I have people often come up to receive and take the host in their teeth. They stick out their tongue just a little and when you go to put it on their tongue they bite down on it and walk away. So I can see it happening.

 

[Spiller]

We use commercially made** “anti-crumbly” hosts** in my parish.

As a sacristan, I am amazed daily at how many crumbs I see in the ciboria after Mass. I mean MANY, MANY crumbs.

I can only guess how many countless crumbs end up trampled on the floor by people who receive Jesus in the hand.

It truly is appalling that communion in the hand is still tolerated. We say that the Eucharist is the “body of Christ”, yet we certainly don’t treat it that way.

You need to upgrade. A week ago we got slammedby college graduates and their families coming to Mass. I was distributing Holy Communion and I had to snap at least the last 50 hosts I distributed in half on the interior of the ciborium. There were really no crumbs to speak of

CIH is here to stay.

N.B. Unless you are ordained or permanently instituted you should be received those vessels purified – sans crumbs.

 

[Father_Fred]

A week ago we got slammedby college graduates and their families coming to Mass. I was distributing Holy Communion and I had to snap at least the last 50 hosts I distributed in half on the interior of the ciborium. There were really no crumbs to speak of

So Spiller alone at this Mass distributed more than 100 large Fragments of the Blessed Sacrament. Between Spiller and any other Eucharistic minister(s) present it is a very safe bet that at least one small but clearly recognizable Fragment

fell in that distribution of Holy Communion.

Our Lord Jesus Christ says that Fragment, being Himself, is really worth speaking of. He asks Spiller: happened to It?

 

[Lepanto]

My parish uses machine-manufactured “non-crumbly” hosts.

As a sacristan, I am constantly amazed at all of the particles that I see in the ciboria after each Mass. What I have learned is that there is NO SUCH THING as “non-crumbly” hosts.

I’m even more amazed that some Catholics, even after proper catechesis regarding the Real Presence, still insist for some reason that they must receive on the hand.

I can only imagine the number of particles trod underfoot of the communion line.

Please read my signature!

 

[Jean_Anthony]

This thread is closed. Thank you all.