The COVID-19 and the Eucharist?

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Practicing Catholic here…

There is no teaching that the accidents of bread and wine are exempt from bacteria/viruses/etc. Same goes for our mouths/lips, hands and the vessles.

Out of obedience to my Bishop I will comply and receive on the hand for this time.
 
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Even after the bread and wine is turned into the Body and Blood of Our Lord?
 
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The Eucharist and the blood of Christ I’d imagine would protect us if anything from any virus etc.
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The accidents of natural bread and wine remain. It’s superstitious, magical thinking to believe that you will be protected from contaminants. The effect of the ordinary sacrament is spiritual; it would be miraculous to have a physical effect other than ordinary nourishment from consuming the accidents. You can pray for God’s will to be done, the rest is up to the working of nature.
 
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What is your opinion on receiving Holy Communion on the tongue being stopped? Especially if you are someone who prefers to receive that way. I think the Body of Christ is different as we will be protected from anything after receiving Our Lord. The Eucharist and the blood of Christ I’d imagine would protect us if anything from any virus etc. Many parishes have stopped Holy Communion in the tongue also which I don’t agree with, it is the Body of Christ we are receiving after all so nothing will happen. Just my opinion sorry for it. Please only practising Catholics answers only, thanks.
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As @TheLittleLady pointed out, the accidents of bread and wine remain — smell, taste, texture, molecular structure, and so on. Unless Our Blessed Lord allows it to happen, there is nothing “about” the sacred species that will ward off disease if it’s present in the distribution of those species. The fact that these accidents remain, and that Our Lord does not appear right there in front of us, standing there talking to us, is the real “miracle”.

I do not do CITH — I suppose I would if there were a drastic need for me to receive the Eucharist and there were no other way to receive, for instance, if I were dying in a church all by myself and needed to go to the ciborium and self-communicate my own Viaticum — and as I said in another post, if it comes to that, I will just not receive for the duration and content myself with a spiritual communion. Nobody aside from the priest ever has to receive communion, unless it is the one time a year that they make their Easter duty (one of the precepts of the Church).
 
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Nobody aside from the priest ever has to receive communion, unless it is the one time a year that they make their Easter duty (one of the precepts of the Church).
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Yes and even the precepts can be dispensed in extraordinary circumstances.
 
I trust my Archbishop. He has the authority – and the responsiblity – to make these decisions. I have no reason to suppose that he won’t do what he thinks best.
 
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Nobody aside from the priest ever has to receive communion, unless it is the one time a year that they make their Easter duty (one of the precepts of the Church).
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Yes and even the precepts can be dispensed in extraordinary circumstances.
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That is quite right, and if it comes to receiving CITH that one time, to keep the precept, I will just do it, and have a bottle of holy water with me, to rinse off my hands into the natural environment (dirt under the shrubs outside the church, etc). I would ask to use the sacrarium, but I foresee that the sacristan would have issues with that.

This is just personal preference and I am not suggesting that any layperson, who receives CITH and inspects their hands to ensure that no visible fragments remain, is acting irrevently or treating the Eucharist sacrilegiously.
 
Yes. The accidents remain, that is why we taste and feel bread and wine. Any bacteria/viruses or mold, that are on the bread before Consecration remain after Consecration.
 
I don’t think prohibiting COTT is going to help. I can understand the logic behind it, but haven’t seen the proof that it makes a difference. One of the study’s I have seen about communal cup shows no difference at all.
 
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I personally wouldn’t worry about it but that’s under the influence of something I heard in a talk from a priest, when he was asked about the sign of peace and someone has a cold. He said something to the effect of “so you get sick and die and go to Heaven. What’s the problem?”
 
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I don’t think prohibiting CITH is going to help. I can understand the logic behind it, but haven’t seen the proof that it makes a difference. One of the study’s I have seen about communal cup shows no difference at all.
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Did you mean to say CITH (communion in the hand) or COTT (communion on the tongue)?
 
In my over 50 years plus of receiving Holy Communion, I have never touched Jesus with my hands.
CITH is a really tough thing for me. I do not feel worthy to touch Jesus with my hand.
I hope my parish will not follow this guideline.
I wish to continue to have the Bread of Life placed on my tongue.
I have never received the Precious Blood, so if that is suspended, it would not affect me.
 
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Both forms of reception are permitted by the Church, and either can be barred for different circumstances. If Mother Church decides, in regions affected by disease, to mandate reception in the hand to try and prevent the spread of disease, she also says that the Eucharist is not “protected” from contamination (and why would it be?). She also teaches that reception in this manner is perfectly reverent.

Therese, you need to take a break from the forum. It’s not good for you to be doing what you’ve been doing the past several days.
 
Then I pray that the Bishop in my archdiocese does not go this route.
We come into contact with people everywhere. If the priest, deacon or Eucharistic Minister washes their hands, why can’t they continue to place Communion from their hand to my tongue. How is hand to hand more sanitary?
 
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