What to do if someone doesn't consume the Host in front of the priest?

[ProVobis]

My guess is that he is pro-communion on the tongue and was using this as an opportunity to outline one of the benefits.

This is true but I also addressed the OP. As one of the conditions for CITH:

1. As to the way to carry out the new rite: one possible model is the traditional usage, which expresses the ministerial functions, by having the priest or deacon place the host in the hand of the communicant. Alternatively, it is permissible to adopt a simpler procedure, namely, allowing the faithful themselves to take the host from the ciborium or paten. The faithful should consume the host before returning to their place; the minister’s part will be brought out by use of the usual formulary, The body of Christ, to which the communicant replies: Amen. [Note: Rome later forbid the Communicant to take the Host themselves.]

ewtn.com/expert/answers/communion_in_hand.htm

 

[Annabelle_Marie]

My understanding is that communion-in-the-hand is supposed to be consumed immediately. Communion on the tongue has no such restriction.

Interesting…except when I read about Eucharistic miracles…and everytime the Eucharist was taken for ill intentions…it was received on the tongue as was the only way allowed.

 

[grasscutter]

This is true but I also addressed the OP. As one of the conditions for CITH:

ewtn.com/expert/answers/communion_in_hand.htm

Oops! I’m sorry for taking it upon myself to interpret someone else’s words. I hadn’t stopped to consider that you might have meant more than that.

Forgive?

 

[ProVobis]

Oops! I’m sorry for taking it upon myself to interpret someone else’s words. I hadn’t stopped to consider that you might have meant more than that.

Forgive?

Forgiven and forgotten.

 

[MissBorgia]

I generally sit in the front pew. I have seen a couple of people walk away with the Host. Each time, I stop them or have someone else stop them.

I couldn’t imagine NOT protecting the Eucharist.

I can’t imagine either. about that time i would start a fistfight.

 

[Stylites]

This exact situation occured at our mass, many years ago. My wife saw the girl flipping the Blessed Sacrament from hand to hand and then putting it in her pocket.

No one else saw this. My wife went after the girl, stopped her, told her to get the host out of her pocket, (the mother of this girl was dumb-founded as to what was happening until she saw her daughter pull the host out of her pocket), then my wife told her to put the host in her mouth- the girl did as she was told. Then my wife simply said, " don’t do that again". The mother I’m sure had some choice words for her daughter when they got home.

Same situation about a year later with me this time. I saw a grown man take the host and start toward his pew. I went after him and said, " you need to consume the host". He did. But come to find out, he was mis-informed about taking communion to a sick person in the home.
It was explained to him and all was well.

When we see this, it is important to take action through the shortest and most expedient route possible at the time. We can’t be wishy washy about it. Don’t wait until next Sunday or even after mass. It may be too late.

My pastor has told us that he wants any parishioner if they see someone not consume the host to ask for it back. He does not want us to just tell them to consume it. His reasoning is that they are probably not Catholic, or have bad intentions for it. He wants it to be given to back.