Why can't Eucharistic Ministers Place host on tounge correctly?

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I can only offer this lot of people don’t stick out their tongues and that is one reason why the host gets dropped. I’ve never dropped a host or hit someone’s nose in serving as an EMOHC. But the lack of reverence- people are so bored looking, lack of correct hand position, mouth position and lack of Amen’s is enough to make one quit…
 
Br. Rich SFO:
From the many I have talked to. Many don’t do this for the right reasons to begin with. Many do not like placing the Host in peoples mouths. I believe the greatest gift is carrying the Eucharist to the ill and sick. But most EMHC do not want to do this because it’s not a very public ministry.
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That’s a very uncharitable thing to say. I’m sure the vast majority of Communion Ministers don’t do it because they want everyone to say “Look at X up the front there, he must be a fine holy Catholic”, they do it to serve God and His people. I would say most are like me, they are reluctant to become ministers to the sick because it is such an awesome responsibility to carry the Host miles away and be the only representative of the Church to those people, not to mention fear of not getting the prayers right etc.
 
I recently had a Eucharistic Minister refuse to give me the host on my tounge! She, literally, froze when I opened my mouth, then shoved the Lord towards my clasped hands!

So, needless to say, I now always try and receive from a Priest.

Sigh. 😦
 
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Kielbasi:
Practice makes perfect.
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Actually, although the above is a common saying, practice does not make perfect.

Practice makes permanent. That is how habits are formed. Practicing something the wrong way makes the wrong way permanent. Practicing something the correct way makes the correct way permanent.

So, we must always be careful with practicing - what are we doing? Are we doing it correctly? If not, we will just be creating a bad habit.

Kielbasi, I am not ranting at you - this is just something I learned, and it makes complete sense.

Sometimes we just repeat sayings without analysing them to determine if they are really true.
 
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SAHMVicki:
I recently had a Eucharistic Minister refuse to give me the host on my tounge! She, literally, froze when I opened my mouth, then shoved the Lord towards my clasped hands!

So, needless to say, I now always try and receive from a Priest.

Sigh. 😦
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Who can blame you? She should be fired, on the spot. You should report her to Father, immediately.

That’s one of the many problems with so many EMHC’s. As an over-used EMHC, I take extra care for the communicant who cares enough to receive the precious Body of Christ on the tongue.

Formation of our new Catholic candidates may or may not include a brief explanation of receiving HC on the tongue. It is clearly discouraged. There’s no doubt about it, receiving in the hand is taught in a far more favorable light. “Use your hands to form a ‘throne’ on which the Body of Christ is placed.” The Body of Christ, handled like a Dorito
 
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SAHMVicki:
I recently had a Eucharistic Minister refuse to give me the host on my tounge! She, literally, froze when I opened my mouth, then shoved the Lord towards my clasped hands!

So, needless to say, I now always try and receive from a Priest.
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I hope you also reported this minister’s abuse to the pastor? (with emphasis added)
  1. Although each of the faithful always has the right to receive Holy Communion on the tongue, at his choice, if any communicant should wish to receive the Sacrament in the hand, in areas where the Bishops’ Conference with the recognitio of the Apostolic See has given permission, the sacred host is to be administered to him or her. However, special care should be taken to ensure that the host is consumed by the communicant in the presence of the minister, so that no one goes away carrying the Eucharistic species in his hand. If there is a risk of profanation, then Holy Communion should not be given in the hand to the faithful.
    Redemptionis Sacramentum​
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cargopilot:
Who can blame you? She should be fired, on the spot. You should report her to Father, immediately.
How can you fire a volunteer? These people are giving of their time and giving of themselves. Instead of criticizing them left and right, give them a little credit for trying.

That’s one of the many problems with so many EMHC’s. As an over-used EMHC, I take extra care for the communicant who cares enough to receive the precious Body of Christ on the tongue.

Formation of our new Catholic candidates may or may not include a brief explanation of receiving HC on the tongue. It is clearly discouraged. There’s no doubt about it, receiving in the hand is taught in a far more favorable light. “Use your hands to form a ‘throne’ on which the Body of Christ is placed.” The Body of Christ, handled like a Dorito
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My experience has been that if the communicant is taller than the Eucharistic Minister then it may be difficult to actually see where the Host is going to “land”.

In the "old days’, communicants received while kneeling. When they tilted their heads back, their tongues stuck out a lot and made easy targets. It was easy for the priest to place the Host squarely on the tongue.

Try sticking your tongue out while your head is tilted back and see how uncomfortable it is to stick your tongue out when you rotate your head so it tilts forward. Do it now while reading this.

If a standing communicant tilts his or her head forward, the tongue is likely to retract, making a small target and with a small mouth opening.

I don’t know why we got away from receiving on the tongue while kneeling, in the first place.
 
You know I have a question… why can’t all you holy people recieve the eucharist in the hand? You are putting it in you mouth anyways and that practice IS allowed…

SO WHY ALL THE FUSS??!!:confused: :confused:
 
You know I have a question… why can’t all you holy people recieve the eucharist in the hand? You are putting it in you mouth anyways and that practice IS allowed…
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SO WHY ALL THE FUSS?
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The Eucharist is Christ Himself. Only those ordained are, in most countries, even allowed to touch it. Only by special indult are American Catholics allowed to touch the host.

All Popes have discouraged the practise, and St. Teresa of Calcutta said that nothing made her sadder than to see reception by hand.

Receiving in the hand cuts down on the reverence, making a common food, rather than something holy. It also, once again, diminishes the import of priests, and therefore allows more potentials to instead seek “sacramental ministry” in the stead of the priesthood.

Any more questions?
 
You know I have a question… why can’t all you holy people recieve the eucharist on the tongue? You are putting it in you mouth anyways and that practice IS allowed…

SO WHY ALL THE FUSS??!!:confused: :confused:
 
Servus Pio XII:
The Eucharist is Christ Himself. Only those ordained are, in most countries, even allowed to touch it. Only by special indult are American Catholics allowed to touch the host.

All Popes have discouraged the practise, and St. Teresa of Calcutta said that nothing made her sadder than to see reception by hand.

Receiving in the hand cuts down on the reverence, making a common food, rather than something holy. It also, once again, diminishes the import of priests, and therefore allows more potentials to instead seek “sacramental ministry” in the stead of the priesthood.

Any more questions?
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Yes. What gives you the right to set yourself up as a greater authority than the Pope? Very few Popes have discouraged communion in the hand, and many have encouraged it. Your quote from BLESSED (how dare you presume to anticipate the Pope’s decision whether or not to canonize her) Teresa is an urban myth, and I suspect you know it.

Receiving in the hand in no way reduces the role of priests in distributing communion. Whether any extraordinary ministers are used is a totally separate question. 98% of the extraordinary ministers in my parish are either women or married men, so the priesthood is not an “alternative option”. In any case I hardly see why ministering communion would discourage anyone from becoming a priest. Rather the opposite. And any young man who wants to become a priest just so he can distribute communion is likely an unsuitable candidate.
 
What amazes me is that people who are supposedly so holy and knowledgeable that they “know better” than to recieve the host in their hands cannot figure out that THERE IS NO SUCH THING as a lay “Eucharistic Minister.” Eucharistic Ministers are properly called priests. There are plenty of EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS of HOLY COMMUNION. If we are going to go out of our way to make an outward sign of our “piety” to to others, can we at least use proper terminology?
 
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Affirmed:
What amazes me is that people who are supposedly so holy and knowledgeable that they “know better” than to recieve the host in their hands cannot figure out that THERE IS NO SUCH THING as a lay “Eucharistic Minister.” Eucharistic Ministers are properly called priests. There are plenty of EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS of HOLY COMMUNION. If we are going to go out of our way to make an outward sign of our “piety” to to others, can we at least use proper terminology?
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No we can’t use the proper terminology. I’m an EMHC and I can’t count the times I’ve been ‘corrected’ about the term. When I remind other EMHC’s that we’re EXTRAORDINARY, I’m accused of being ‘too picky’, ‘making things difficult’, a ‘trouble maker’ and just plain wrong. I’ve given up and just say Eucharistic Ministers (sic) when I’m around most of the others. I’m just tired of the abuse.

I only receive on the tongue, even when it’s from an EMHC. I’m about the only one who does in my large parish. I even receive on the tongue when I’m in front of everyone as an EMHC. I have taken plenty of abuse on this, too, but won’t give up on this one.

When I’m acting as an EMHC I always take just a little more time and care for the precious few communicants who receive on the tongue. I’m always happy to see them. I even get a few line jumpers. There are so few of us who receive on the tongue here, we all know the others who do.

One other thing, I don’t ever use my hand to give one of those ‘fakey’ blessings to the non-communicant. Too many particles, and I don’t want to rub them off on them. I just say ‘may God bless you’.
 
Yes. What gives you the right to set yourself up as a greater authority than the Pope? Very few Popes have discouraged communion in the hand, and many have encouraged it. Your quote from BLESSED (how dare you presume to anticipate the Pope’s decision whether or not to canonize her) Teresa is an urban myth, and I suspect you know it.
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Receiving in the hand in no way reduces the role of priests in distributing communion. Whether any extraordinary ministers are used is a totally separate question. 98% of the extraordinary ministers in my parish are either women or married men, so the priesthood is not an “alternative option”. In any case I hardly see why ministering communion would discourage anyone from becoming a priest. Rather the opposite. And any young man who wants to become a priest just so he can distribute communion is likely an unsuitable candidate.
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“Very few Popes”? Want to bet? How about all of the Popes until 1958? There was no handling (i.e. desecration) of the Eucharist until then. After that, Paul VI, who you can thank for this version of the Mass, discouraged it. John Paul II as well. Benedict XVI, I am unsure of.

As for “St. Teresa”, I am terribly sorry, but you can blame my Confirmation teacher. Teresa was our “class saint” (sic). I left there with dire misconceptions, apparently, which I should attempt to correct.

THE PRIESTHOOD WOULD HAVE BEEN AN OPTION, but they saw it just as fit to not enter it, as apparently, now everybody can touch the host, so why again do we have priests?
However, you enjoy your bloody liberalised American Catholic Church! Go play your bloomin’ electric guitar in Mass, singing songs which blaspheme against the Sacred Tradition of the Church! TAKE THE BODY AND BLOOD OF OUR RISEN LORD IN YOUR HANDS, LIKE A SIMPLE CRACKER! THE VERY THOUGHT IS A BLASPHEMY AGAINST HIS NAME! THE INDULT ITSELF WAS ONLY JUSTIFIED DUE TO “AMERICAN CULTURE”!

Whoops, can no longer edit the post with “St. Teresa”, sorry.
 
how dare you
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Sorry bout the flame (now edited), but I made a MISTAKE. We all do that, okay? No reason to get “self-righteous” and “see, I know more than the ultratraditional moron” about it.

Thank you.

-Servus Pio XII
 
Servus Pio XII:
HOW DARE I? I MADE A BLOODY MISTAKE!!! COME OFF IT YOU SELF-RIGHTEOUS LIBERALISED SHEEPLE!!
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Whoa, Calm down there Servus Pio! AND anyone who supports communion in the hand is not a ‘liberal’. It’s been going on for what almost 40 years now?

Podo
 
I have a rather short temper. One of my faults. Terribly sorry bout the flame, which now makes the same point, but in a calm fashion.
 
Handling does not equal desecration. Or are you now wiser than Rome?
 
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