Why do you, or don't you recieve Christ's blood at Holy Communion?

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I will receive under both species once the priest uses intinction. Until then, I will not. A whole parish drinking from common cups is unsanitary and needlessly puts people at risk. Secondly, I never liked the idea of “helping yourself” to the body or the blood, at least as far as I am concerned, and I do think things would be better across the board if the practice of handling the chalice and receiving in the hand was suppressed.

However, I do not besmirch those who receive in the hand or take the chalice into their hands. I’m more than a little disturbed by those on this thread, though, who have besmirched me or others like me for our practices. I do not just “pass by” the chalice; I reverently bow my head and make the sign of the cross in acknowledgement of Our Blessed Lord’s blood. In no way am I “passing by” Our Blessed Lord’s blood when I have received the totality of the sacrament under the body. Off handed comments like “I don’t know how one can just pass by the blood of the Lord… He wouldn’t just pass by you” is infuriating because it is a judgment based on appearances and personal opinions. It is prejudice such as this that has driven so many people away from the Mass of Paul VI and back to the Tridentine Mass.
 
I am very blessed to be at a parish where we receive on the tongue!
We kneel, Father takes Host and dips it in the Precious Blood to be placed on our tongue.

Amen!
 
I receive only the Precious Blood (when it is offered) because I cannot consume the Host because I am gluten intolerant (no wheat allowed). It makes me much more appreciative of the Precious Blood.
 
Since you asked:
I don’t receive the blood because Christ is fully present in his body AND I refuse to use the kind services of the wine service volunteers.

Regards.
 
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kmktexas:
Well, right now I’m in Venezuela so Communion isn’t offered under both species regularly.

Back in Texas, I usually receive only the one species as well.

I have two reasons:

First, I realized that I was thinking of the Cup as the Precious Blood and not as the Body and Blood (Soul and Divinity) all present in each species. This occured to me when I was teaching my second grade CCE class. So I started to receive under one species only to remind myself.

Once, I started doing that I found that I really focused on Christ within me. Stopping at the Cup station after I had already received seemed a little redundant and distracting. I just wanted to go straight back to my seat and do my Thanksgiving. That’s my second reason.

Not really rational I know, but you asked. :o
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I believe in addition to being a sacrament, it is also a sacramental, witht hat said it is kinda like saying well why use an actual rosary when you can keep track on your hands.
1). Christ institued it with both as formeerly stated
2). Being that it is aslo a sacramental and NOT just a symbol, you get extra graces as it would seem to me.
3). i may be wrong but, the prcious blood doesn’t containh the precious body, but the precious body under the species of bread contain both, please correct me if i am mistaken.
4). if we truly believed that tthat was Jesus’ body which it is, (unfofortunatley most Catholics don’t) then could we get enough of him, i don’t believe it detracts from it’s understanding, by recieving the blood. I’ts like saying you can have too much of good thing
 
I receive Christ’s blood at Communion because I want to. Additionally, it is symbolically more complete.
 
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Sean.McKenzie:
I believe in addition to being a sacrament, it is also a sacramental, witht hat said it is kinda like saying well why use an actual rosary when you can keep track on your hands.
1). Christ institued it with both as formeerly stated
2). Being that it is aslo a sacramental and NOT just a symbol, you get extra graces as it would seem to me.
3). i may be wrong but, the prcious blood doesn’t containh the precious body, but the precious body under the species of bread contain both, please correct me if i am mistaken.
4). if we truly believed that tthat was Jesus’ body which it is, (unfofortunatley most Catholics don’t) then could we get enough of him, i don’t believe it detracts from it’s understanding, by recieving the blood. I’ts like saying you can have too much of good thing
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Points 2 and 3 are blatently incorrect and are not held by the Catholic Church. Indeed #3 is rank heresy.
 
I do not receive from the chalice for the following reasons:

1.) I am afraid of dropping it.

2.) I receive all of Jesus in the host.

3.) I don’t like drinking after other people.

4.) I don’t like the taste of wine.

5.) I would have trouble drinking from the chalice with the Host in my mouth, and I refuse to chew the Host. Also, I have the host in my mouth for longer if I didn’t drink from the chalice, and I like to kneel in the pew and pray for a little while with the host in my mouth- as close to Jesus as I can get.

6.) At my favorite parish in town, it isn’t even offered, so it’s not even an option there.
 
No, I do not receive under the appearance of wine. The most immediate reason for this is that I go to the Traditional Mass virtually every Sunday, where this is not an option for the faithful. My parish does not seem to have it as an option when the Novus Ordo is celebrated. When I’m in churches that do allow this practice, I still do not. My main reasons there are:
  1. The Host contains the full Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity.
  2. I simply don’t think lay people should be distributing Holy Communion.
  3. This was one of the first changes introduced to the Mass during the Protestant Revolt, and is a break with hundreds of years of liturgical tradition in the Latin Rite.
  4. Countless Saints seemed to have reached high levels of perfection by receiving under only one of the Species.
Of course I readily submit to the will of the Church, which now allows this. I don’t mean to knock those who do receive under the appearance of wine.
 
I don’t partake of the wine/blood and never have. When my parish first started offering both, the priest told us that it was being instituted to further the feeling of community within the congregation. He explained that either form was the complete body & blood of Christ, but the communal cup was a symbol of our brotherhood. It just seemed to me that it did not add anything to the worship of God.

As the priest was explaining the reasons for taking the Host and then the wine, I could not help but remember the story of the Irishman who caught a pixie. The pixie told the Irishman that he could have two wishes in exchange for the pixie’s release. The Irishman thought for a minute and requested a bottle of whiskey that never went dry. Instantly there was a bottle in the Irisman’s hand. He immediately took a long drink, looked at the bottle and it was still full. The pixie then asked him what his second wish was, and the Irishman replied that the first bottle of whiskey was so wonderful, he wanted another bottle just like the first one. 😉
 
I have essential tremor in my head and hands (think Katharine Hepburn) which makes partaking of the Cup entirely too risky. I would certainly spill It.
 
I agree with this entire Post.

Anyone ever think to why the church stopped distributing the precious blood? Spillage, drops on the floor, etc. It is just another “job” for a lay person to do to make them feel that they are “participating” and another sign of “irreverence” in the lack of caution the church now takes in believing and protecting the real presence.
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dezembrum:
No, I do not receive under the appearance of wine. The most immediate reason for this is that I go to the Traditional Mass virtually every Sunday, where this is not an option for the faithful. My parish does not seem to have it as an option when the Novus Ordo is celebrated. When I’m in churches that do allow this practice, I still do not. My main reasons there are:
  1. The Host contains the full Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity.
  2. I simply don’t think lay people should be distributing Holy Communion.
  3. This was one of the first changes introduced to the Mass during the Protestant Revolt, and is a break with hundreds of years of liturgical tradition in the Latin Rite.
  4. Countless Saints seemed to have reached high levels of perfection by receiving under only one of the Species.
Of course I readily submit to the will of the Church, which now allows this. I don’t mean to knock those who do receive under the appearance of wine.
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I never receive Christ’s blood at communion.

First of all, I hate the taste of wine. But mainly, I worry about catching other people’s germs. I have no problem drinking and eating after family and friends ( because I know if they’ve been sick), but I don’t care to drink after strangers.

Karen
 
I know His blood in in the Host as well; it’s just that receiving the precious blood is–well, deeply precious to me–the idea of drinking his blood–I don’t know–it does something emotionally to me, something that makes me feel physically close to him. Because I’m washed in his blood and forgiven. Also, I kind of like how when I drink from the chalice, some of the precious blood remains on my upper lip and may last awhile. In a way, though, this is kind of a problem–because I wonder if when I wipe it off with my finger (and then lick it, and make the sign of the cross with my thumb and finger–later I found out this is an Hispanic custom after making the Sign of the Cross(I’m not Hispanic)) some of it is somehow lost…or remains on my hand…I don’t know. Still, when I was confirmed, I wasn’t prepared for how quickly you receive the cup after the host–it coincided with a flood of elemental experience resulting from a real baptism in the Holy Spirit…that was the most incredible day of my life. So I felt like a baby who kind of chokes on the milk, or being hit by a wave in the ocean–it was all feeling, and very personal. Frankly–I’d like to just grab the chalice and gulp down the whole thing! (Don’t worry–haven’t given in to that impulse!) As a matter of fact–I used to kid around (not really kidding, you know?) about why you can’t just mainline the Eucharist instead of receiving once or twice a day. This is all just emotional and spiritual, I know–one drop or particle is the whole Christ. But still, I love the Eucharistic Lord so much…I’m very grateful we’re allowed to receive the precious blood. It always amazes me, after never knowing this existed as a protestant, how much I need and desire His physical presence on a daily basis.
 
I’m not baptised or confirmed yet (I’m starting RCIA in September) so I won’t be able to take the Eucharist until around this time next year, after baptism and confirmation at Easter.
 
I started receiving the Cup because it was a change in the Euchrist Ritual, (in my younger days, there was no cup). The first couple of times I just viewed It as wine but the third time something miraculously happened to me. As I reached for the Cup, the wine was shining so brightly that the whole inside of the Chalice was lit up, I knew immediately that the wine was truly the Blood of Christ, from that day on I can not take the Cup without thinking of this wonderful miracle the Lord bestowed on me.

God Bless!
 
I don’t receive the Precious Blood, because only the Body of Christ is available up in the choir loft (two of the choir members are EMHCs, and they bring the Body of Christ up). Receiving the Precious Blood would mean going down the many flights of stairs, walking all the way to the front of the church, and coming back up again – we’d never get back in time.
 
I like some time for reflection & prayer after receiving the Eucharist. At daily Mass there is sometimes not enough time for my reflection if I receive under both species so I receive only the Body of Christ.

Most Sunday Masses I receive the Blood of Christ also.

I try to be open to the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Both species are available most times in our diocese which is a very generous and profound gift. When I feel moved to receive both I do, but I am aware that it is not necessary to do this in order to have received Christ fully.
 
Good Shepherd said:
I started receiving the Cup because it was a change in the Euchrist Ritual, (in my younger days, there was no cup). The first couple of times I just viewed It as wine but the third time something miraculously happened to me. As I reached for the Cup, the wine was shining so brightly that the whole inside of the Chalice was lit up, I knew immediately that the wine was truly the Blood of Christ, from that day on I can not take the Cup without thinking of this wonderful miracle the Lord bestowed on me.

God Bless!
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That sounds so 1972ish…

You choose to receive the Precious Blood…
 
Pariah Pirana:
That sounds so 1972ish…

You choose to receive the Precious Blood…
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I don’t yunderstand this reply but doesn’t it sound so, so 1988ish???

I don’t receive the Precious Blood because I am a recovering alcoholic and need to be completely abstinent from alcohol in order to avoid the physical craving that kicks in whenever I ingest alcohol. I am so grateful the CCC allows for sinners like myself to fully partake in the Eucharist without hurting myself.

Thank you, Jesus!🙂
 
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