When receiving the Eucharist no communion plates are being used?

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I’ve attended two different parish churches this month and it suddenly dawned on me that when I received the Eucharist there was nothing, no plate, being held underneath my hands or the hands of the Eucharistic minister. I don’t remember when this happened. I can’t believe that I have been so lost in prayer that I hadn’t noticed this change. Is this the norm now?

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The pastor at my parish uses a paten when he can, but just for him or the associate pastor. I suppose they are at the discretion of the pastor. I imagine that using a paten for every Eucharistic Minister would be logistically challenging to say the least.
 
No, I haven’t been away. We changed priests recently. One retired and then we had an interim priest and then we finally have a new priest. Somewhere in there, the plates disappeared. I just don’t know when it happened. LOL I did witness a Eucharistic calamity recently. A Eucharistic minister tripped and fell spilling the chalice of the Holy Blood all over the carpet. It was mortifying. They reverently covered the spill with white cloths and continued on with the Communion line. I had to step around it. After Mass, three ladies, armed with all kinds of cleaning supplies, proceeded to remove It from the carpet. And I don’t think any Communion plates would have helped that situation, sadly.

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Egad. They should have used water ONLY and blotted over and over. 😮
 
Sadly I saw a girl have the same dreadful accident some years ago. She sobbed for days, “I spilled His blood”, she kept saying, and then stopped going to Mass.
 
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I said cleaning supplies and I should correct myself that I don’t know what was in the bottles. I would think water and blotting only also. It was just a mortifying thing to be witness to and I hope I don’t see anything like that again. ✝️
 
Oh no! Poor thing! Accidents happen. I hope she comes back to Mass. I’m really sorry to hear that.🛐
 
I’ve never been in a parish where a Communion-plate was used. Not even in Europe.
 
How sad. To reject the guidelines of Holy Mother Church that way!
 
lightacandle said:
I’ve attended two different parish churches this month and it suddenly dawned on me that when I received the Eucharist there was nothing, no plate, being held underneath my hands or the hands of the Eucharistic minister.
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The communion patens don’t work. They do provide commendable sign value, but they are rather useless in preventing dropped hosts from hitting the floor. Those on long handles wielded by young servers can often add to the woes…
 
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The pastor at my parish uses a paten when he can, but just for him or the associate pastor. I suppose they are at the discretion of the pastor. I imagine that using a paten for every Eucharistic Minister would be logistically challenging to say the least.
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Perhaps another reason to further limit the number of individual distributing Holy Communion at each Mass?
 
Yes it is the norm, and has been for a very long time; very rarely have i seen a catch plate being used. But then you have to figure what to do when you dont have any altar servers and only Eucharistic Ministers avail and no ushers, then what do you do ? There is also no designated place for the Tabernacle, some Churches have the Tabernace directly behind the Altar, some off to the side by a few feet, some really far off to the side, some priests will let a lay person bring the Eucharist from the Tabernacle to the Altar ( seen it happen ) what else, ahh the bells that are used during the Concecration are not mandatory either, bolted down kneelers at the altar to recieve communion are not mandatory, recieving under both the Body and Blood are not mandatory, receiving communion isn’t mandatory either.

Lots of things that would seem to need be standard practices across the board for every Parish are not. The only thing that is is the Liturgy . the mass it self what ever the technical name is, ANY beans, if a catch plate or what ever the tech name is important to you, you can always send a letter to your local bishop to address your concern. Or you could always donate those catch plate things buy about 4-8 of em pending how much they cost, and give them to your priest or deacon, and then there is no excuse that they can’t afford it. Or don’t use them because they don’t have them.
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**93.] The Communion-plate for the Communion of the faithful should be retained, so as to avoid the danger of the sacred host or some fragment of it falling.
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While I believe their use typically does more harm than good (except for the positive sign value their use projects), I do agree they should be used given the language you provided from RS.

Sadly I don’t think it’s largely about $$$. I think most pastor have little knowledge of RS and would just discount RS’s comment on this matter if it were brought to their attention.

One question I have is should they be employed in cases where communion is offered under both kinds and someone is receiving communion under the appearance of wine?
 
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