Priest didn't let me receive communion on the tongue

[MiserereMeiDei]

My 81 year old priest with arthritis in every part of his body who needs help walking up and down even a single stair has no problem giving 40-50 kneeling people communion on the tongue every week and 10-20 people every other day of the week. If he won’t even place it on your tongue when you stand it isn’t a back problem and he has no business telling you you can’t kneel or receive on the tongue when you stand when you don’t even have to.

 

[Socrates92]

plus in another of your responses:
“…then I do what I want…”

Taken out of context. @Sean, if I was understanding correctly, was simply responding to the idea of the altar being a mere table. The point is valid. The dinner table is the perfect place for crazy individualist antics. Unless you have a boring family.

Your language is incredibly arrogant and domineering plus the red herring about the poor old lady and taking the host from the ciborium as a liturgical minister shows that you still have a lot more to learn about the church.

The rest of this makes very little sense. How is the point about taking the host from the ciborium a red herring?

 

[MiserereMeiDei]

His language is neither arrogant nor domineering. The domineering one is the priest who is not doing what he is supposed to do.

The priest is not free to demand that people stand or take communion in the hand and certainly not to have them take from the ciborium. He is not free to deny them communion for kneeling or standing or because they refuse to take from the ciborium.

He must give communion to anyone at mass who is properly disposed and not prohibited.

Can. 843 §1. Sacred ministers cannot deny the sacraments to those who seek them at appropriate times, are properly disposed, and are not prohibited by law from receiving them.

 

[CarmeliteKnight]

I’ve heard of some preists doing that before, but never have I heard of a priest telling someone to take the body of Christ from the cibororum. Isn’t that against canon law?

 

[Divine3]

@Tolle_Lege Understand what you mean and they choose to use the word clericalism. I would prefer the words Jesus used. “Hypocrites, Brood of vipers, blind guides, blind fools, whitewashed tombs, You serpents” Jesus words describing the Pharisees and Scribes seem more descriptive and concrete. I can hardly look at a photo of McCarrick without feeling sick----he looks like a snake to me. God bring him to conversion.

 

[Cruciferi]

The OP and his sister are both minors. Their parents are handling the situation.

 

[TheLittleLady]

If you were my son, I would be speaking to the Pastor about this (associate? visiting?) priest. I would also make it clear that you were not going to attend, let alone serve, masses where these abuses take place (and those around here know I do not use the “liturgical abuse” phrase, well, ever).

 

[Ardent_Fire]

I recall one of the more traditionalist Catholics on youtube had a similar incident, or maybe it was their wife. Either way there was a paper trail that they followed and were able to get the proof in writing that they couldn’t be refused for wanting to kneel and receive on the tongue, obviously charitably explained. The priest wasn’t happy but he couldn’t refuse them at that point.

 

[Sean]

He is a elderly retired priest who is in residence at the parish

 

[melonhead]

As others have said, have your folks make an appointment to speak about it with him, then respectfully write the bishop.

The bishop is busy and unless its pressing bothering the bishop with little things is wrong.

Denying the Blessed Sacrament, without reason, combined with everything else I’ve read in this thread seem pressing, imho.