TLM "Amen" at Communion

[Magnum_V8]

When you attend the TLM, does the priest say “Amen” at Communion, or do you?

At the parish where I often attend the TLM, the priest does. I recently spoke with someone who said the people do. I know for a fact the priest at the TLM I attend does say “Amen”, and my missal even shows it. But the person I was speaking with said when he was an altar boy, he would respond “Amen” for the people.

What gives? I always thought it was a “no-no” for the people to say it.

 

[GandalfTheWhite]

When you attend the TLM, does the priest say “Amen” at Communion, or do you?

At the parish where I often attend the TLM, the priest does. I recently spoke with someone who said the people do. I know for a fact the priest at the TLM I attend does say “Amen”, and my missal even shows it. But the person I was speaking with said when he was an altar boy, he would respond “Amen” for the people.

What gives? I always thought it was a “no-no” for the people to say it.

It’s the priest.

The priest says:
Corpus Domini nostri Jesu Christi custodiat animam tuam in vitam aeternam. Amen.
(May the Body of Our Lord Jesus Christ keep your soul unto life everlasting. Amen.)

 

[tradcathconvert]

Gandalf is correct. If everyone is aware of the rubrics and following them, it is the priest who says amen. The laity who say amen at the TLM I attend, are new and just don’t know the procedure yet.
Maybe the altar boy saying the Amen was a local custom. I have been serving for about 7 years now, and have been in charge of the servers for almost 3 years. We have never said the Amen, but as I say, there is such a thing as local custom. Maybe someone else has more information.

 

[m134e5]

When you attend the TLM, does the priest say “Amen” at Communion, or do you?

At the parish where I often attend the TLM, the priest does. I recently spoke with someone who said the people do. I know for a fact the priest at the TLM I attend does say “Amen”, and my missal even shows it. But the person I was speaking with said when he was an altar boy, he would respond “Amen” for the people.

What gives? I always thought it was a “no-no” for the people to say it.

Things weren’t perfect when the TLM was the norm, as some would have you believe. When Bishop Finn celebrated a TLM in August, clear instruction on how to receive communion was given- and it was explained that the priest, not the communicant, says “Amen”. When a parish in my town had a TLM on All Souls’, the pastor gave very clear and specific instructions that when we received communion, the priest was to say “Amen”- not the communicant.

 

[Joe_Kelley]

At the time the Corpus Christi phrase was intoduced [in Massachusetts] , I think that was still the TLM, we were clearly instructed to respond Amen. Before that neither the communicant not the altar boy said anythng.

There were one or two cases of someone responding Texas.

 

[lak611]

At the time the Corpus Christi phrase was intoduced [in Massachusetts] , I think that was still the TLM, we were clearly instructed to respond Amen. Before that neither the communicant not the altar boy said anythng.

There were one or two cases of someone responding Texas.

That probably was the transitional Mass in 1966-1967. I have an old missal and that is what it says in there. “Corpus Christi” would indicate the transitional Mass, not the TLM.

 

[rwoehmke]

As an altar boy from 1943 to 1958 we never said amen at this particular time in the Mass . It was the priest who did so.

 

[Magnum_V8]

Off-topic here;

Does anyone remember Kevin Costner’s movie, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves…at the scene of the bishop ministering Holy Communion to Maid Marian, he says, “Corpus Christi.” I guess they didn’t put a whole lot of effort into researching the issue.

 

[Joe_Kelley]

That probably was the transitional Mass in 1966-1967. I have an old missal and that is what it says in there. “Corpus Christi” would indicate the transitional Mass, not the TLM.

Thanks for the dates. I think that is the case. I have lost track of when what changed.

Before the Corpus Christi phrase was introduced the priest said: Corpus Domini nostri Jesu Christi cutodiat animam tuam in vitam aeternam. Amen. My missal says to each person. As I recall it said to every second or third person. He was moving to fast to say it to each.

 

[lak611]

Thanks for the dates. I think that is the case. I have lost track of when what changed.

That was the transitional Mass.

Before the Corpus Christi phrase was introduced the priest said: Corpus Domini nostri Jesu Christi cutodiat animam tuam in vitam aeternam. Amen. My missal says to each person. As I recall it said to every second or third person. He was moving to fast to say it to each.

That was the TLM.

 

[lak611]

As an altar boy from 1943 to 1958 we never said amen at this particular time in the Mass . It was the priest who did so.

That is how it has been in the TLM’s I have gone to from 2001 to the present time.

 

[kleary]

The rubrics for the 1962 Missal has the priest praying a prayer at the time Holy Communion is distributed to each communicant. “May the body of or Lord Jesus Christ keep thy soul unto life everlasting, Amen.”

There is no “response” to this prayer by anyone. “Amen” is not a response.

The confusion comes from a change in the rubrics from the 1962 Missal to the Mass of 1965, which was carried over to the Novus Ordo.

The new rubric has the priest praying that prayer silently at the altar when he receives Holy Communion, and then at the distribution saying “Corpus Christi” and the communicant, (who no longer must kneel to show belief in Transubstantiation") responds “Amen” to show belief in Transubstantiation.

When one kneels to receive no response is to be given by the communicant, even in the Novus Ordo- because kneeling for reception shows the belief.

Ken

Ken

 

[lak611]

When one kneels to receive no response is to be given by the communicant, even in the Novus Ordo- because kneeling for reception shows the belief.

I made my first Communion in 1976 in a NO Mass. I received kneeling at the rail. I said “Amen” in response to “The Body of Christ” which was said by the priest. It was not until 1980 or so that Communion was received standing. When I received kneeling at the rail, I said “Amen”. I was instructed to do so.

When I go to the TLM, I do not say anything. The priest says the “Amen”.