Receiving communion at Tridetine Mass

[toknowservelove]

There is one parish that offers the Tridetine Mass and I’d like to go and take my mother. I understand that during this rite you are supposed to kneel and receive on the tongue. Is that correct? Or is it similar to the NO, that people receive either in the hand or on the tongue, but always standing? My other question is, if you are supposed to kneel, what does someone, like my mom, who is elderly and can’t kneel do? Can they simply stand? Thanks for shedding light on the subject.

 

[Skeptic92]

There is one parish that offers the Tridetine Mass and I’d like to go and take my mother. I understand that during this rite you are supposed to kneel and receive on the tongue. Is that correct? Or is it similar to the NO, that people receive either in the hand or on the tongue, but always standing? My other question is, if you are supposed to kneel, what does someone, like my mom, who is elderly and can’t kneel do? Can they simply stand? Thanks for shedding light on the subject.

In the NO the preferred way to receive is still kneeling and on the tongue, most people just don’t, also in the TLM you have to receive kneeling and on the tongue, for your Mother, just speak to the Celebrant of the Mass (As a Solemn High Mass has 3 Priests, not just one), he will aim to sort something out for you.

Also there are several types of Mass in the Old Rite, Low Mass, Missa Cantata, Solemn High Mass, Dialogue Mass, Sung Mass and Solemn Pontifical Mass. All of these have different aspects, and some different actions, for example in Low Mass the Celebrant mainly speaks in a Low tone, and the responses of the Servers are generally very quiet (we are actually told to be quite quiet at a Low Mass, myself and the other server whos training me attempt to be loud enough for the congregation to hear though), and the congregation does not have to respond to what the Priest says.

 

[jmcrae]

There is one parish that offers the Tridetine Mass and I’d like to go and take my mother. I understand that during this rite you are supposed to kneel and receive on the tongue. Is that correct?

You will see a kneeling bench with an Altar rail at the front of the Church. Normally, everyone will go forward and kneel in a row on the bench to receive on the tongue - you don’t have to kneel on the floor, and you can lean on the rail for support - it is just like kneeling in your pew.

I have bad knees and I can’t kneel on the floor, but I have never had any trouble kneeling at the Altar rail, because it is up off the floor, and I can lean on the rail to get up and down.

As soon as you receive, you get up and someone who hasn’t yet received will take your place. You then return to your pew to kneel and pray in thanksgiving.

My other question is, if you are supposed to kneel, what does someone, like my mom, who is elderly and can’t kneel do? Can they simply stand? Thanks for shedding light on the subject.

She can stand next to the end of the Altar rail, and receive on the tongue. No one will think any less of her for this. Persons who use wheelchairs can also go next to the rail to receive.

 

[Jim_Dandy]

I am disabled. I sit in my walker near the front of the Church, walk up to the altar rail pushing my walker, receive the Eucharist on my tongue while standing, then return to my place. Others receive on the tongue, kneeling.

Women wear veils. It’s expected. As a general rule, Communion is never given standing or in the hand. Always on the tongue, kneeling. Exceptions are made, of course, for frailty or disability. I’m unable to kneel.

 

[archangel04]

Also you don’t have to say Amen, I did the first time lol. Just kneel and open mouth. Your mother can receive standing as long as she receives COTT.

 

[laszlo]

There is one parish that offers the Tridetine Mass and I’d like to go and take my mother. I understand that during this rite you are supposed to kneel and receive on the tongue. Is that correct? Or is it similar to the NO, that people receive either in the hand or on the tongue, but always standing? My other question is, if you are supposed to kneel, what does someone, like my mom, who is elderly and can’t kneel do? Can they simply stand? Thanks for shedding light on the subject.

Everyone should receive in tongue, receive into hand is not allowed according to the 1962 rite. Those who cannot kneel for medical reason can receive standing, but better to clear this case with the priest before Mass.

Some communities require the veil, others not.

 

[ProVobis]

Also you don’t have to say Amen, I did the first time lol.

The priest says it for you in the beautiful words:

Corpus Domini nostri Iesu Christi custodiat animam tuam in vitam aeternam Amen

 

[Chatter163]

There is really no reason to say anything to the priest. Anyone who cannot kneel, especially if he/she is elderly, simply stands and the clergy understand that. Everyone else kneels.

If there is a communion rail (someone else spoke about “benches,” which I found somewhat confusing, as there is typically a kneeler and a rail, no bench), just aproach it and kneel; stand if one truly cannot kneel. However, occasionally EF Masses are celebrated in modern churches that do not have communion rails. I have seen two solutions employed in such situations

a) Prie-dieu kneelers are used. The same kneeling is done as at altar rails, only two or four at a time.
b) The front pew on one or both sides is left vacant during the Mass, then the communicants come up, enter the front pew and kneel. The priest walks across the front of the pew and administers communion, just as if he were behind the rail.The communicants then exit the pew on the other side, making room for the next group.

 

[toknowservelove]

Thanks everyone!

 

[barb_finnegan]

I’ve gone several times to a convent of traditional Sisters for Sunday Mass, and there is an elderly lady who sits in front of me with her daughter. She can’t get up and kneel at the rail, so the priest comes down and gives her Communion after everyone else has received. She doesn’t have to get up, because it takes two people (her other daughter and her son-in-law) to lift her out of the pew and walk. The aisle of the chapel is very narrow, too.

 

[Dempsey1919]

This is how you should receive communion during the EF Mass:

Approach the Communion rail and kneel down.

The Priest will walk along the Communion rail distributing the Most Holy Eucharist.

When he approaches you, tilt your head back slightly, open your mouth and stick your tongue out. Make sure you actually stick your tongue out because it is very hard for the priest to give communion on the tongue if you only stick it out a little bit.

Don’t say Amen before you receive the Eucharist.

While distributing the Eucharist, the Priest will say May the Body of Our Lord Jesus Christ Preserve Your Soul Unto Life Everlasting in Latin.

I hope you enjoy the EF Mass.

 

[ProVobis]

And the communion rail allows you to wait a few seconds (perhaps give silent thanks) after you receive before you get up and return to your pew.

 

[crazzeto]

There is one parish that offers the Tridetine Mass and I’d like to go and take my mother. I understand that during this rite you are supposed to kneel and receive on the tongue. Is that correct? Or is it similar to the NO, that people receive either in the hand or on the tongue, but always standing? My other question is, if you are supposed to kneel, what does someone, like my mom, who is elderly and can’t kneel do? Can they simply stand? Thanks for shedding light on the subject.

You kneel at the communion rail and receive on the toung. You also don’t say “Amen”, the priest will say it for you. God bless, take it slow, perhaps don’t sit at the front and do your best to keep up. It’s a different, but wonderful experience. I also recommend getting at least an inexpensive copy of the 1962 missal.