Rec'g On the Tongue Question

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I know this sounds pathetic but I’m afraid to have the priest place the Eucharist in my mouth because my mouth is small (compared to an average mouth), therefore, if he did, Christ would either drop out of his hand or he would have to shove Him in my small mouth.

That’s why I have to have our Lord be placed in my hand though I would prefer to have the put it in my mouth but like am too nervous to have the priest do it!

Suggestions?
 
Both ways are acceptable. I prefer to receive by mouth, and I am willing to suffer through the awkwardness of having someone place something in my mouth (including touching my tongue in many cases), beacuse I perceive a certain reverence in that method. But that is merely my preference.
 
Dear Paris,

I have served as an EMHC, and found on occasion with elderly people who wear dentures, that they slip down out of place when they open their mouth to receive the host. It must be an extremely embarrassing matter for them, and I felt compassion for them when I saw the look on their faces. In cases like yours and for these people, I am grateful to God that there is the option to receive in the hand. Be at peace.

Carole
 
According to the Instruction of 2004 Redemptionis Sacramentum:

“93. The Communion-plate for the Communion of the faithful should be retained, so as to avoid the danger of the sacred host or some fragment of it falling.”

The 2002 General Instruction of the Roman Missal (GIRM) describes how to use the Communion-plate in the case of intinction (i.e. when the consecrated host is dipped in the Precious Blood by the minister giving Communion):

“287. … each communicant, holding a communion-plate under the chin, approaches the priest …”.

The 1975 GIRM 117 had the same, whenever the host was received (not just for intinction):

“117. … The communicants reply: Amen and, holding the communion plate under their chin, receive the sacrament.”

So if a Communion-plate is not being provided you could ask for one. If there is a refusal to provide one, you could bring your own.
 
I receive on the tongue but receiving on the hand is allowed as well.
 
Paris Blues:
I know this sounds pathetic but I’m afraid to have the priest place the Eucharist in my mouth because my mouth is small (compared to an average mouth), therefore, if he did, Christ would either drop out of his hand or he would have to shove Him in my small mouth.

That’s why I have to have our Lord be placed in my hand though I would prefer to have the put it in my mouth but like am too nervous to have the priest do it!

Suggestions?
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I wouldn’t worry about the priest having any trouble. Remember, he places the Host in mouths of small children without trouble. Lean your head back, open your mouth as wide as you can and stick out your tongue. I assure you the priest will be able to handle placing the Host.
 
I switched over to receiving on the tounge. However, I recommend that you first do it when there are Communion-plates in use.

To get used to it you can always practice with necco wafers. Just have someone say “Not the Body of Christ” to you and place it on your tounge and repeat until you feel comfortable. The person placing it might find it easier to hold the necco wafer with the thumb on top and index finger on bottom.
 
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Madia:
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To get used to it you can always practice with necco wafers. Just have someone say “Not the Body of Christ” to you and place it on your tounge
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:rotfl::rotfl:Sorry it just struck me funny. I used to receive in the hand. One day took a chance and switched. I will never go back to the hand. Just open wide (since you have a small mouth) stick your tongue out.
 
bauerice said:
:rotfl::rotfl:Sorry it just struck me funny. I used to receive in the hand. One day took a chance and switched. I will never go back to the hand. Just open wide (since you have a small mouth) stick your tongue out.
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Yes! Open wide, stick your tongue way out, and don’t curl it up from side to side(u-shape looking face on) keep it flat. Be careful not to scrape the host off with your upper teeth when pulling your tongue back in. Personally I still can’t fathom why anyone would want to “eat” like baby birds do, but “Everyone to their own taste, said the old lady as she kissed the cow.”
 
Okay so here I was at the Immaculate Conception Mass Thursday night, and when it was time to recieve Communion, the.

As I was recieving Communion, the Host stuck to the side of my mouth, on my teeth and well first when I bit down, I only got It broken in two halves in my mouth but it stuck to the roof and side of teeth! I couldn’t get Him to go down, swallow I meant.

So I didn’t dare take my hand in my mouth because It ain’t food, it’s our Lord. So I had to have it kind of dissolve in my mouth because no matter how hard I tried to get Him off from clinging to my mouth, He wouldn’t let go! LOL!

Is this common? :confused:
 
Paris,

I am happy for you becoming Catholic. Welcome aboard. It is common that from time to time we have problems with “stickage” of the communion host. However I have been watching your posts over the last few weeks.

In an attempt to maintain some charity in this post I must point out to you that I have noticed a considerable amount of scrupulosity in your posts. I am sure you are a genuine person but I get funny feelings when I read your incessant fixation with the tiny little details. If I can give you some advice I suggest that you pray for the gift of discernment. Heaven knows we all have our problems and we must trust in the lord. But for heavens sake take a deep breath and don’t sweat the small stuff. Jesus knows that you love him. Scupulosity is anunfounded apprehension and consequently unwarranted fear that something is a sin which, as a matter of fact, is not. St. Alphonsus describes it as a condition in which one influenced by trifling reasons, and without any solid foundation, is often afraid that sin lies where it really does not. This anxiety may be entertained not only with regard to what is to be done presently, but also with regard to what has been done.

So remember this…In with the good air…out with the bad air.
 
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decn2b:
Paris,

I am happy for you becoming Catholic. Welcome aboard. It is common that from time to time we have problems with “stickage” of the communion host. However I have been watching your posts over the last few weeks.

In an attempt to maintain some charity in this post I must point out to you that I have noticed a considerable amount of scrupulosity in your posts. I am sure you are a genuine person but I get funny feelings when I read your incessant fixation with the tiny little details. If I can give you some advice I suggest that you pray for the gift of discernment. Heaven knows we all have our problems and we must trust in the lord. But for heavens sake take a deep breath and don’t sweat the small stuff. Jesus knows that you love him. Scupulosity is anunfounded apprehension and consequently unwarranted fear that something is a sin which, as a matter of fact, is not. St. Alphonsus describes it as a condition in which one influenced by trifling reasons, and without any solid foundation, is often afraid that sin lies where it really does not. This anxiety may be entertained not only with regard to what is to be done presently, but also with regard to what has been done.

So remember this…In with the good air…out with the bad air.
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I’m overcoming scrupulosity.

I’m sorry you get a funny feeling when reading my posts. I got a funny feeling reading that which told me perhaps I shouldn’t get so detailed.

It’s not that I was suffering scrupulousity talking about how the Host “sticks” to the roof of my mouth…is was only a question. Just making sure if it just didn’t happen to me!
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make sense?
 
Paris Blues:
Okay so here I was at the Immaculate Conception Mass Thursday night, and when it was time to recieve Communion, the.

As I was recieving Communion, the Host stuck to the side of my mouth, on my teeth and well first when I bit down, I only got It broken in two halves in my mouth but it stuck to the roof and side of teeth! I couldn’t get Him to go down, swallow I meant.

So I didn’t dare take my hand in my mouth because It ain’t food, it’s our Lord. So I had to have it kind of dissolve in my mouth because no matter how hard I tried to get Him off from clinging to my mouth, He wouldn’t let go! LOL!

Is this common? :confused:
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Hi Paris,
it is good to see the enthusiasm and desire to be correct in all things. If only we would all be able to maintain that child like desire to please God in all things at all times.

first when I bit down
It would appear that someone was remiss in telling you to NEVER bite or chew Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament of Holy Communion. Receive Him, I prefer on the tongue, and let Him disolve in your mouth on your tongue. The tongue the holiest and unholiest part of the body. Holiest because it is the portal through which Jesus has chosen to enter and become one within us as He is one within the Father. Unholiest because it is through the mouth that uncharitable thoughts and blasphemies are spread.

**So I had to have it kind of dissolve in my mouth because no matter how hard I tried to get Him off from clinging to my mouth, He wouldn’t let go! **
That is the quiet time to absorb and realize that all of the power that holds all of creation in existance is resting peacefully on your tongue and He will never let go. Use this time to adore Him. “Oh come let us adore Him, O come let us adore Him, O come let us adore Him, Christ The Lord.”
 
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John-the-Seeker:
first when I bit down
It would appear that someone was remiss in telling you to NEVER bite or chew Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament of Holy Communion.
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This is something the nuns told us that had no theological basis nor support in magisterial teachings or disciplinary norms.

The Greek word “trogo” used in Scripture is translating literally is “gnaw, chew, nibble, or munch.” It is perfectly in accord with Scripture and the teaching of the Magisterium to “bite” or “chew” or “trogo” the Blessed Sacrament.

If you find a magisterial text that contradicts me, then I’d be happy to change my mind, as we all should strive to “think with the Church” as St. Ignatius Loyola put it.

See here from EWTN:
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It would appear that someone was remiss in telling you to NEVER bite or chew Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament of Holy Communion
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This is simply not true, there is no Church law Prohibiting Chewing the Eucharist.

In fact John 6:54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day…

The original greek translation of “eats” is based from the original greek word “to Knaw”…Interesting our lord tells us Whoever Knaws on his flesh. It is Ok in my opinoin to let the host dissolve out of reverence. But it is also misinformation telling people that its wrong to Chew the Eucharist.

Before the Second Vatican Council, chewing the Eucharist was prohibited by long-standing custom (not by Church law — priests, for instance, still chewed because they had a much larger host to consume)
 
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John-the-Seeker:
Hi Paris,

That is the quiet time to absorb and realize that all of the power that holds all of creation in existance is resting peacefully on your tongue and He will never let go. Use this time to adore Him. “Oh come let us adore Him, O come let us adore Him, O come let us adore Him, Christ The Lord.”
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Huh???
 
Since Christmas is coming up, most Polish parishes have Oplatek available. Can you have someone practice with you? It’s the same type of matter as the Host.

About oplatek
 
Paris Blues:
Okay so here I was at the Immaculate Conception Mass Thursday night, and when it was time to recieve Communion, the.

As I was recieving Communion, the Host stuck to the side of my mouth, on my teeth and well first when I bit down, I only got It broken in two halves in my mouth but it stuck to the roof and side of teeth! I couldn’t get Him to go down, swallow I meant.

So I didn’t dare take my hand in my mouth because It ain’t food, it’s our Lord. So I had to have it kind of dissolve in my mouth because no matter how hard I tried to get Him off from clinging to my mouth, He wouldn’t let go! LOL!

Is this common? :confused:
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Christ said take and eat. It most certainly is food; divine food, but something to be eaten. That is why the Church has urged that the hosts be made larger ane thicker than they used to be, so that the appear as bread, not as something that can’t be immediately identified as bread.
 
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otm:
That is why the Church has urged that the hosts be made larger ane thicker than they used to be, so that the appear as bread, not as something that can’t be immediately identified as bread.
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I have not heard about this. Do you have a source you could quote and/or provide a link? Thanks!
 
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msproule:
I have not heard about this. Do you have a source you could quote and/or provide a link? Thanks!
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Not immediately at hand; it is a good bit older.

I suspect that if you look through USCCB site, you may find it.

I haven’t seen the paper thin bleached white hosts we had pre Vatican 2 for ages and ages. They definitely stuck to the roof of the mouth or the teeth, and were so insubstantial that they were impossible to chew.

And while we are on the subject of chewing (which really seems to offend some people, or at least bother them greatly), it might be appropriate to recall the passage from John 6 in which John reports Jesus’ commentary on eathing the Body; the word in Greek translates out closer to “gnaw”, and is a very graphic word. Jesus didn’t say “Take and swallow”; He said “take and eat”. If that was his command, one would think that should be good enough to relieve the anxiety some people seem to feel about the issue.
 
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