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I’m trying to receive the Eucharist on the tongue after receiving in the hand for years. Is there a “standard” technique for doing so. I think the one thing I don’t quite get is how far to stick my tongue out.

I know both ways of receiving are accepted, but as my study of the faith continues, I feel compelled to receive our Lord in this way.

God bless,
Bryan
 
It is unfortunate that people today are not taught the “how to” of receiving on the tongue. As an EMHC the biggest problems I have seen is people not sticking their tongue out enough so that the minister basically has to stick their fingers in their mouth. Also there are quite a number of people who do not stick out their tongue but clamp down on the host with their teeth when I try to put it in their mouth. Then there are those who sort slurp, meaning they wrap their lips around the host, and usually around the ministers fingers as well. The proper way to receive is to lift up your chin and tilt your head back slightly and put your tongue out past your lips but not hanging down (picture a panting dog, you don’t want to do that). Then don’t pull your tongue back in quickly. YOu should open your moth wide. The host should stick to your tongue but if your mouth is not open wide enough it can hit your lips or teeth as you pull your tongue back in and the host could fall. It could also slip off if you do it too fast.
 
bscastro said:
I’m trying to receive the Eucharist on the tongue after receiving in the hand for years. Is there a “standard” technique for doing so. I think the one thing I don’t quite get is how far to stick my tongue out.

I know both ways of receiving are accepted, but as my study of the faith continues, I feel compelled to receive our Lord in this way.

God bless,
Bryan
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Why do you go forward marching backwards?
 
Pfaffenhoffen said:
Why do you go forward marching backwards?
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I like this comment more for people who seem to be more focused on avoiding sin than on approaching God. They seem to be trying to hit the “narrow gate” but have their eyes firmly fixed on matters of sin (what is or isn’t, how serious etc…)

As for the idea of receiving on the tongue as somehow “Marching backwards”…Or am I missing something here??

Peace
James
 
bscastro said:
I’m trying to receive the Eucharist on the tongue after receiving in the hand for years. Is there a “standard” technique for doing so. I think the one thing I don’t quite get is how far to stick my tongue out.

I know both ways of receiving are accepted, but as my study of the faith continues, I feel compelled to receive our Lord in this way.

God bless,
Bryan
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I seem to be saying amen and receiving simultaneously. I feel very uncoordinated. We didn’t receive any instruction on receiving, I’ll think I’ll try Joanmn’s tips.
 
asd72 said:
I seem to be saying amen and receiving simultaneously. I feel very uncoordinated. We didn’t receive any instruction on receiving, I’ll think I’ll try Joanmn’s tips.
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Perhaps a good reason to go back to the old communion formula, which didn’t involve any “amen”.

May the body of our Lord Jesus Christ preserve your soul unto life everlasting.
 
wasserfall said:
Perhaps a good reason to go back to the old communion formula, which didn’t involve any “amen”.

May the body of our Lord Jesus Christ preserve your soul unto life everlasting.
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Yup, and it is a lot easier for a short Eucharistic minister to distribute Communion on the tongue with a Communion rail.
 
for 25+ years I have received eucharist on the tongue and don’t really pay that much attention of the actual how to. the hardest part is educating a visiting or new priest I am confirmed because being anglican though a liberal anglican I don’t do the sign of the cross too. The current priest has been the only priest out of 25+ years that I didn’t have to show in any way what so ever though may be it helped that I am serving but only minorly so I guess because i could have been working toward confirmation or something as one doesn’t have to be confirmed to serve since in the anglican church. Though I guess it must be a natural step forward to take at some point.
 
Joannm said:
It is unfortunate that people today are not taught the “how to” of receiving on the tongue. As an EMHC the biggest problems I have seen is people not sticking their tongue out enough so that the minister basically has to stick their fingers in their mouth. Also there are quite a number of people who do not stick out their tongue but clamp down on the host with their teeth when I try to put it in their mouth. Then there are those who sort slurp, meaning they wrap their lips around the host, and usually around the ministers fingers as well. The proper way to receive is to lift up your chin and tilt your head back slightly and put your tongue out past your lips but not hanging down (picture a panting dog, you don’t want to do that). Then don’t pull your tongue back in quickly. YOu should open your moth wide. The host should stick to your tongue but if your mouth is not open wide enough it can hit your lips or teeth as you pull your tongue back in and the host could fall. It could also slip off if you do it too fast.
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As an EMHC, I agree with all of this. I will also add that it’s helpful to keep your head still. Once someone tried to kind of snap it up from my fingers as I was moving my hand with the host toward her mouth. Basically, my hand collided with her face and it was really awkward. However you open your mouth, if you are still I can work with that.

If you’re uncomfortable receiving on the tongue, I recommend receiving from a priest the first few times. They obviously have so much experience administering Holy Communion, so if you make a mistake, they’ve seen it before and can deal with it more easily.
 
Pfaffenhoffen said:
Why do you go forward marching backwards?
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Want to explain this? Is this a backhanded insult in some way?

I asked a fairly simple question respectfully and the first respondent answered it quite well. The this?
 
bscastro said:
Want to explain this? Is this a backhanded insult in some way?

I asked a fairly simple question respectfully and the first respondent answered it quite well. The this?
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He’s stated in other posts that we should move into the future so he tends to not be crazy about practices such as COTT.
 
Aggies08 said:
get some necco wafers and practice 😃
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:thumbsup:I was going to suggest some small cracker, like Wheat Thins. I think this is a really good idea, so you can get comfortable. You could ask the priest for some unconsecrated wafers to practice on.
 
wasserfall said:
Perhaps a good reason to go back to the old communion formula, which didn’t involve any “amen”.

May the body of our Lord Jesus Christ preserve your soul unto life everlasting.
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I agree. I’ve come across a number of priests who will try to ram the host in the person’s mouth before letting them say “Amen”. Yes, I’m serious. Maybe they’re rushing or perhaps they don’t like people receiving on the tongue? I’m not sure why they do this, but it makes it very difficult to say Amen – and then some priests get mad if you don’t!
 
JRKH said:
I like this comment more for people who seem to be more focused on avoiding sin than on approaching God. They seem to be trying to hit the “narrow gate” but have their eyes firmly fixed on matters of sin (what is or isn’t, how serious etc…)

As for the idea of receiving on the tongue as somehow “Marching backwards”…Or am I missing something here??

Peace
James
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Receiving communion in the hand is something more natural and an acquisition of the Vatican II. Why going backwards.
Let us thing:
  1. would Jesus Christ give communion in the tongue in the first mass? No.
  2. Would the first christians give communion in the tongue? No.
Why then it appeared.
We must study the history of the Church and see why a certain Elohist vision of God led to it…
Vatican II put it to the origins.
Receiving communion in the tongue is too much like giving food to a child. It id not adult.
On the other hand, and that is what worries me most, it seems for some that it is a sacrilege to receive the Lord in our Hands !!! That we are unfit to receive in the hands !!! But if we are unfit to receive in the hand we are unfit to receive in the tongue for the same reasons.

But tell you, it does not cause any trouble to me if people receive in any way !!!
 
roadsend said:
Receiving on the tongue is normative in the Catholic Church.
Communion in the hand is only allowed by indult.
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And so…?
That is juridical jargon and changeable…
If I receive by indult or by normative does it make any difference?
You know, in the future, everybody will receive in the hand.
Simply old people are hard to change (I am old).
Tell you a story: the beloved Pope John Paul II always give the communion in the tongue. Once, in Paris, a small child showed the palm of the hand. Our dear Pope hesitated and deposited the host in the child’s hand.
Popes also have a resistence to change.
Now, Pope Benedict XVI came again with the question. He is a traditionalist Pope. He wants to give everybody communion in the tongue. For sure, if I was blessed to receive communion by Him, I would receive in the tongue, thanks to God.
Simply, history will not cahnge, old ways like latin (I am a teacher of latin) and gregorian and communion on the tongue will disappear.
But the RCC will go on forever…Amen.
 
superamazingman said:
Come on now. We aren’t marching backward, but if we get off the road, sometimes you need to look back to see where the road is, and how to get there.
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Tell me: if in the first Mass the communion was not in the tongue, why did it started that way?
This is history of the Church !!!
 
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