The host dip.

[dprewett]

Last sunday a woman dipped the host int the blood of christ. I have seen this maby one other time. When I visited a Byzinten catholic church the Host was already dipped when I recieved receiving both kinds at the same time. I thought it was rude for the lady to put her hand in a chalice that others were going to drink from. Then I thought maby she was ill and trying not to pass her sickness but then she should have just skipped it. anyway is this an OK thing to do in a Roman Catholic Church. I have been taught no but she was allowed to do so.

 

[benedictgal]

Last sunday a woman dipped the host int the blood of christ. I have seen this maby one other time. When I visited a Byzinten catholic church the Host was already dipped when I recieved receiving both kinds at the same time. I thought it was rude for the lady to put her hand in a chalice that others were going to drink from. Then I thought maby she was ill and trying not to pass her sickness but then she should have just skipped it. anyway is this an OK thing to do in a Roman Catholic Church. I have been taught no but she was allowed to do so.

Latin Rite Catholics are forbidden from doing this practice. We receive Holy Communion; we don’t take. The best explanation comes from Francis Cardinal Arinze, the Prefect for the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments:

One thing I’ve seen before [is] where they have the ciborium out, and people come up and take our Precious Lord out of there and dip our Lord into the Precious Blood and place it on their own tongue themselves.

Forbidden. Not correct. Because the nature of the Holy Eucharist is such that the person who is not a priest celebrating the Mass must be given the Body of Christ. You say “amen”. And you receive, on the tongue or in the hand. If you are not the priests celebrating Mass – if you are the deacon assisting – you must be given [Communion]. You may not take.

Even if you are bishop or cardinal, and you are not celebrating that Mass, you must be given. You must not take.

[Edited]

I hope this helps.

 

[drafdog]

When receiving Eucharist by intinction, the Eucharistic minister dips the host in the wine and administers it to the recipient. The recipient is never permitted to dip the host. Extraordinary ministers of Eucharist are supposed to be trained to stop people from doing this. Perhaps you could bring this to the attention of the pastor.

Matthew

 

[solayan]

Hi,

I’m new here but intinction is a practice I ran into at a previous parish so it’s something I’ve done a bit of research into.

My understanding is that it is allowed if the priest dips the host in the precious blood and then places it on the person’s tongue. It is not allowed for a communicant to take the host and dip it themselves.

If anyone knows more about this feel free to clarify or correct me.

 

[puzzleannie]

. I thought it was rude for the lady to put her hand in a chalice that others were going to drink from.

not only rude but absolutely forbidden. practice is called self-intinction. there is a recent thread on the topic of intinction, so search on that word, that explains the difference between the accepted practice–which is the norm in the Eastern Church–of the priest (not lay ministers) intincting, or “dipping” the host into the chalice before administration, and self-intinction.

It should be reported to the priest so that the minister who distributes the host can assure people consume it immediately, so the congregation knows the rules, and the ministers should all be retrained. It is not fair to put you on the spot so you don’t know how to react. If it happens again, put your hand or purificator over the chalice and instruct the person in a low voice to consume the host immediately, then administer the cup.

here is the result of a quick search
forums.catholic-questions.org/search.php?searchid=1726418
the 3rd and 4th threads are the most recent on this topic

 

[benedictgal]

Hi,

I’m new here but intinction is a practice I ran into at a previous parish so it’s something I’ve done a bit of research into.

My understanding is that it is allowed if the priest dips the host in the precious blood and then places it on the person’s tongue. It is not allowed for a communicant to take the host and dip it themselves.

If anyone knows more about this feel free to clarify or correct me.

This is what Redemptionis Sacramentum says regarding intinction:

104.] ***The communicant must not be permitted to intinct the host himself in the chalice, nor to receive the intincted host in the hand. ***

Thus, we cannot “take”; we must receive.

 

[dprewett]

I thought this was something not to be done. Thanks.

I hate to even take this to our priest. I have only seen it once in our parish and it is a very large parish. I do not wish to make it seem as though he is not doing his job. He does a wonderfull job and if he had seen this would have corrected it later. How best should I go about this. Should I just let it go?

 

[benedictgal]

I thought this was something not to be done. Thanks.

I hate to even take this to our priest. I have only seen it once in our parish and it is a very large parish. I do not wish to make it seem as though he is not doing his job. He does a wonderfull job and if he had seen this would have corrected it later. How best should I go about this. Should I just let it go?

This is an abuse that needs to be addressed as charitably as possible. The fact of the matter is that self-intinction is pretty much like “self-communion”. This is a reprobated practice that must be stopped immediately. There is no grey area here.

 

[puzzleannie]

I thought this was something not to be done. Thanks.

I hate to even take this to our priest. I have only seen it once in our parish and it is a very large parish. I do not wish to make it seem as though he is not doing his job. He does a wonderfull job and if he had seen this would have corrected it later. How best should I go about this. Should I just let it go?

in no way could he interpret your question about this practice as criticism. Simply ask, as you have done here, and explain you have never seen it and want to know what to do if it happens again. That is his job, to tell you how to do yours.

 

[Colin_Adian]

There is a family at my Parish that like to practice self-intinction. I always have the purificator ready when they receive as they don’t seem to get the hint that it is wrong.

 

[Karl_M]

There is a family at my Parish that like to practice self-intinction. I always have the purificator ready when they receive as they don’t seem to get the hint that it is wrong.

I’m an EMHC. We were trained to tell people not to do it, and to put our hand over the cup to stop them, or pull the cup against ourselves, or turn away, etc, if necessary.

I’ve only had people go to dip once at a funeral-and all but one person took it well.

The deacon told me that one time, at a wedding, a woman tried to start a huge argument in the communion line, but he stood his ground and she finally had to go to her seat without dipping.

 

[Cavaille-Coll]

Although it happens rarely while I’m holding the Precious Blood, occasionally someone (usually a visitor) will come with a Host in their hand, whereupon I put my hand over the cup. Usually, though, if they get more than five feet away from the priest without consuming the Host, he’ll chase after them and make them consume it. Most of us know to keep an eye out for people attempting to steal Hosts.

 

[JugglingReferee]

I do some travelling during the summer, all work related. I always make sure to learn the Mass time for parishes when I’m out of town.

I also consider myself an aware person. At my regular parish, we don’t have what other parishes have. What do other parishes have?

Well, I’ve noticed at other parishes, there are volunteers that stand a few yards behind the EMCHs and watch each person consume the host. It’s fairly obvious to someone like me why they’re there; even prior to knowing that people have chosen to not consume the host properly.