Receiving the Eucharist

[Booter]

I would never do it but I’ve seen it done in the winter where somebody receives the Eucharist while wearing gloves (i.e thin gloves not bulky gloves). Is this Ok?

 

[lutherlic]

A good question. I am interested in the answer too.

However, even if it is allowed, I personally am not keen on it. Hands are generally not clean as it is and gloves are likely to be washed even less frequently.

Receiving on the tongue makes this unnecessary handling of our Lord’s sacred body a non-issue.

 

[jimrob]

My understanding is that the standard method of receiving the host is on the tongue. In some Provinces of the Church, the Bishops’ Conference permits the laity to receive the host in the hand. There is no provision for placing the host on a glove, or anything other than the communicant’s tongue or uncovered palm, and the minister should not do so.

 

[Aelred_Minor]

What a strange idea. I’ve certainly never seen it. Someone needs to turn up the heat in the church building I guess.

I would be nervous about fragments sticking to the fabric of the gloves. With bare hands you can consume any fragments without much trouble, but with gloves it could be more difficult.

 

[thistle]

I would never do it but I’ve seen it done in the winter where somebody receives the Eucharist while wearing gloves (i.e thin gloves not bulky gloves). Is this Ok?

The Church allows us to receive on the tongue or in the hand. Gloves cover the hands so I would assume its forbidden.

 

[TheMc]

I would never do it but I’ve seen it done in the winter where somebody receives the Eucharist while wearing gloves (i.e thin gloves not bulky gloves). Is this Ok?

No, it’s certainly not. You may receive in the hand itself, or on the tongue. If the hand is not available, then you are obligated to receive on the tongue, if you want to receive…

 

[MartyrForJesus]

No, it’s certainly not. You may receive in the hand itself, or on the tongue. If the hand is not available, then you are obligated to receive on the tongue, if you want to receive…

I was thinking of something along those lines. Thanks for clearing that one up, TheMc.

God Bless.

 

[zab]

When I attended a training session for Extraordiary Ministers of Holy Communion, we were instructed not to give Communion in the hand to people wearing gloves. Either they had to remove both gloves or receive on the tongue. Common sense will tell you that trying to pick up the thin Host with a glove on could be difficult and could cause one to drop the Host. There is also the matter of the glove having touched the Sacred Host and would need to be purified in case the glove picked up any crumbs or particles from the Host. Our First Communicants are instructed not to wear gloves when making their First Communion.

 

[puzzleannie]

I would never do it but I’ve seen it done in the winter where somebody receives the Eucharist while wearing gloves (i.e thin gloves not bulky gloves). Is this Ok?

if you are wearing gloves or have anything in your hands–tissue, purse, missal, baby–you must, must, must receive on the tongue.

 

[ConstantineTG]

I don’t think gloves are expressedly forbidden. But ask yourself this, if you see some particles on your glove, will you go and lick your glove? If the answer is no, then remove your glove or receive on the tongue.

 

[puzzleannie]

I don’t think gloves are expressedly forbidden. But .

yes it is expressly forbidden to take communion in the hand with your gloves on or with anything else in your hand,.

 

[A_Catholic]

When I attended a training session for Extraordiary Ministers of Holy Communion, we were instructed not to give Communion in the hand to people wearing gloves. Either they had to remove both gloves or receive on the tongue. Common sense will tell you that trying to pick up the thin Host with a glove on could be difficult and could cause one to drop the Host. There is also the matter of the glove having touched the Sacred Host and would need to be purified in case the glove picked up any crumbs or particles from the Host. Our First Communicants are instructed not to wear gloves when making their First Communion.

Good points, but you say that the glove would have to be purified and that is why it cannot touch the consecrated Host. In the Latin Mass, all vessels touching the precious blood and the consecrated host are purified, and also the priest’s hands are purified after communion. But in the Novus Ordo Mass, although they purify the vessels, no one’s hands who have touched the consecrated hosts are purified, including the priest’s. Do you, as an EMHC, purify your hands after distributing communion? And certainly none of the people who received in the hand have had their hands purified. So although that argument has validity in the Latin Mass, it does not have any validity in the Novus Ordo Mass. But you have to wonder why that was thrown out.

 

[ConstantineTG]

yes it is expressly forbidden to take communion in the hand with your gloves on or with anything else in your hand,.

Where does it say?

 

[thistle]

Where does it say?

It does not have to state no gloves allowed. It states you may receive on the tongue or in the hand. If you have gloves on then you cannot receive in the hand because they are covered by the gloves.

 

[A_Catholic]

Where does it say?

Good point. We are told here that we can’t receive with gloves on because there will be particles left on the glove. But if you receive in the hand, won’t there also be particles left in your hand? What is the difference?