Time to end communion on the tougue

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Isn’t it time the church does away with the unsanitary practice of placing the communion host directly on the recipients tongue. I have spoken with several priests and they all prefer to place the communion host in the recipients hands. One of those priests has recently begun draping a cloth over his left arm and is seen frequently wiping his fingers on the cloth during distribution of communion. This indicates one thing, his fingers have come in contact with saliva. In the health field, this would be classified as “contamination”.

From a pure health standpoint, placing the host in the hands would be prophylactic in avoiding the transfer of viruses and bacteria that may be contained in saliva.

There is a simple remedy to this very real health threat. All the church needs to do is proclaim that as of a predetermined date the communion host will be placed in the recipients hands only.

Of course another problem exists with the Eucharistic Ministers. They need to cleanse their hands before they distribute communion.
 
You’re not going to have too much luck with that line of thinking around CAF. Please feel free to do a search for the large number of threads that have been started about this practice.
 
What of the people with no hands, how are they supposed to receive our Lord then?! It is never time to end communion on the tongue, literally, either, as it always goes on a tongue eventually or you shouldn’t have it to begin with!😃
 
=Not a Die Hard;5021599]Isn’t it time the church does away with the unsanitary practice of placing the communion host directly on the recipients tongue. I have spoken with several priests and they all prefer to place the communion host in the recipients hands. One of those priests has recently begun draping a cloth over his left arm and is seen frequently wiping his fingers on the cloth during distribution of communion. This indicates one thing, his fingers have come in contact with saliva. In the health field, this would be classified as “contamination”.
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From a pure health standpoint, placing the host in the hands would be prophylactic in avoiding the transfer of viruses and bacteria that may be contained in saliva.
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There is a simple remedy to this very real health threat. All the church needs to do is proclaim that as of a predetermined date the communion host will be placed in the recipients hands only.
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Of course another problem exists with the Eucharistic Ministers. They need to cleanse their hands before they distribute communion.
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First what evidence other than your highly valued opinion can you give that this is NECESSARY?

Second, dispite this being because of reverence for Our God, Our Creator, the preferred method recommended by our Pope, you what, know more more, know better?

Third, Ordinary minister of Holy Communion (please, every day, nearly every church, nearly every Mass, is hardly extrodinary) wash hands before? OK, and what about after, when they MAY have tiny fragments (that is the ENTIRE JESUS CHRIST) residue on their hands… and oh, by the way, what about all those folks receiving the very God that made tham. What about their hands:blush::hmmm::whacky:

And by the way. Dinn’t I hear from a doctor that the number one way germs are transmitted is by the, AHHHHHH hand?

Love and prayer friend,
 
Am I the only one to take note of the date on which this OP was started? 😉
 
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Am I the only one to take note of the date on which this OP was started? 😉
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Nope! I always check after reading those sorts of threads. 🙂 Not only is it April Fools’ Day, but there are a small number of posts in about three years from the OP.
 
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Am I the only one to take note of the date on which this OP was started? 😉
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So at first my response was to be your looking at the join date, but then :rotfl: :clapping::clapping::clapping:

Oh, and if this is correct and the pastor is getting saliva on his fingers, he’s doing it wrong.
 
I will never not receive on the tongue. I am a die hard and genuflect before receiving the Most Precious Body of our Lord and genuflect again before receiving the Most Precious Blood of our Lord.

I have never heard of any outbreaks stemming from receiving communion. As an extraordinary minister of communion, I have more faith in God than to worry about a few germs I may or may not pick up giving someone the Most Sacred Communion. Its an honor and I have no problems with it.
 
Actually, if done correctly, it should be more sanitary to distribute Communion on the tongue. What about all those people sneezing and coughing in their hands, and then shaking hands with others, and touching the back of the pew in front of them. Everyone at Mass, then, is carrying some type of virus or bacteria all over their hands. And then the priest goes and touches everybody’s hands? :eek:

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If it is Communion on the hand that has given the OP such pride and snobbishness, maybe it’s time to get rid of Communion on the Hand…
 
We are only discussing about receiving the Body of Christ. What about the Blood of Christ? if we are worried about the contamination as the OP mentioned, shouldn’t the OP also be worried about drinking His Blood - out of the same chalice – or we might have to have some sort of “lunch kit” for each parishioner. 😃
 
If receiving on the tongue makes the original poster uncomfortable, what will the use of the spoon in the Byzantine (and I think Syriac tradition) do to him?
 
I always receive on the tongue. If I ever felt the priest or EMHC’g finger’s on my tongue (which I never have) I would know that one of us was doing it wrong.
 
Maybe it was an April fool’s joke… but I like to chime in about the chalice.

Not only do we all drink from the same one, but afterwards, the priest and/or his deacons all drink from it to finish the Blood and then one of the deacons {a lot of times me, because I love doing this part for some reason} takes it to pour water for cleaning it, and drinks the water too, just to make sure a single drop is not left behind.

I think it would be hard for any germaphobe to be a deacon in our Church. 🙂
 
Not_a_Die_Hard said:
Isn’t it time the church does away with the unsanitary practice of placing the communion host directly on the recipients tongue. I have spoken with several priests and they all prefer to place the communion host in the recipients hands. One of those priests has recently begun draping a cloth over his left arm and is seen frequently wiping his fingers on the cloth during distribution of communion. This indicates one thing, his fingers have come in contact with saliva. In the health field, this would be classified as “contamination”.

From a pure health standpoint, placing the host in the hands would be prophylactic in avoiding the transfer of viruses and bacteria that may be contained in saliva.

There is a simple remedy to this very real health threat. All the church needs to do is proclaim that as of a predetermined date the communion host will be placed in the recipients hands only.

Of course another problem exists with the Eucharistic Ministers. They need to cleanse their hands before they distribute communion.
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I disagree with you. Those who are able to receive should be allowed to receive by hand or tongue. I received by hand for almost 19 years before I received by tongue for the first time and I prefer the tongue. BTW my parish does make Eucharistic Ministers cleanse for distributing communion
 
Not_a_Die_Hard said:
Isn’t it time the church does away with the unsanitary practice of placing the communion host directly on the recipients tongue…From a pure health standpoint, placing the host in the hands would be prophylactic in avoiding the transfer of viruses and bacteria that may be contained in saliva.
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I did giggle a bit, in case this was an April Fool’s joke. Just in case…

Rather, it’s time that those who wish to receive on the tongue OPEN their mothes wide enough, and the priest holds the Eucharistic Bread on the edge, AND there’s an altar servew with a paten under the communicant’s chin.
 
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