What Do You Say At Reception of the Eucharist?

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When taking the Eucharist are you supposed to say something to the Priest when he presents it to you. You know he says “the body of Christ.” Are you supposed to say something before receiving?
 
Yes, you are supposed to say ‘Amen’. By this you are assenting not just to your belief that what appears to be bread and wine has been transubstantiated into the Body and Blood of Christ, but also that you are in full union with the Catholic Church - itself the Body of Christ too.

So it is important that if you are in mortal sin you don’t receive without confessing your sins. If you refuse to believe (not just have doubts, but actual determined disbelief) in a Church teaching you shouldn’t receive either. And non-Catholics shouldn’t receive.
 
Are you really a “new catholic”? My question is based upon your post that you are coming from another Christian faith tradition [Episcople]. Have you truly been brought into full communion with the Catholic Church [made a profession of faith and received Conformation and first Eucharist after receiving the Sacrament of Reconcilliation] or did you just start attending a catholic parish?

If you received instruction and have been formerly received into the Church then you faied to receive basis catechesis and perhaps you failed to receive other important information and instruction…run don’t walk to you parish office and inquire about this lack of information …

If you just made a change of church, please contact the parish office and inquire about adult formation instruction in the Catholic faith and reception into full communion…You should not be receiving the Eucharist at Mass without being in full communion with the Church and having made that public profession of faith.

This prohibition is not because catholics [or the Church] view you as less worthy…you may very well be better disposed to receive the Eucharist than any catholic…but it denotes a unity that is not present within the Christian communities…it is also a sign of respect for your faith traditions…

All parishes have an RCIA formation for non catholics who wish to convert to the Christian faith. Many include Christians of other faith traditions in this formation journey [and even catholic adults in need of Confirmation]. Othe rparishes may offer seperate formation programs for baptized christians and conformandi.
 
Your posts on this thread are greatly applauded. Very, very insightful.
 
Just as an addendum, when receiving at the Extraordinary Rite (aka, the Mass of Bl John XXIII, Tridentine Mass, etc), the communicant does not say “Amen”.
 
Sina said:
why not Chris? Just wondering, never heard of that.
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I’m not sure why or when it was dropped–hopefully Christ will not 🙂 . But in very old catechetical instructions and liturgical descriptions from Church Fathers like St. Cyril of Jerusalem and it says to say “Amen.”
 
Sina said:
why not Chris? Just wondering, never heard of that.
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I’ve never checked up on the reasons, but the specific instructions are in the Missal booklet.

I do say Amen when receiving at the Ordinary Rite, as I did when I received as an Episcopalian prior to coming into full communion with the Church.

It’d be interesting to know the reasons why or why not Amen is included or not as a response to receiving the Host.
 
Saying, “Amen” when receiving is an affirmation by the recipient that it is the Body of Christ.
 
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