Why isn't it standard for small round hosts to be used?

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I’m sure this has been asked plenty of times…
why do priests keep using the large hosts for holy
Communion that have to be broken then so often
when the body of Christ is given flakes drift down :(?
Happened again this morning and I couldn’t find it.No paten .
Why isn’t it just made standard to have little round hosts?
Thanks and God bless.
 
Uh. I have never seen a priest distribute the Eucharist using hosts so large they need to be broken for distribution. What we receive is ‘little round hosts’.
 
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Really? These would be the size of a dinner plate and have to be
cracked in to sizeable pieces to be given.This is in Australia.
Some priests do some use the small round ones .
 
In our Church the host the the priest holds up over the chalice during the consecration is quite large, and I always assumed that was so it would be more visible. It’s then broken in to pieces with at least one piece into the chalice that holds the Blood of Christ. I have never seen a large host broken up off of the alter and distributed to the laity. At every parish I have ever been to, they only use the small (quarter-sized?) hosts. I’m in the US.
 
The large host used in the elevation, and is broken and distributed as part of the Eucharist so that it is shared in community, instead of consumed just by the priest.
 
We have a single big one, then a bunch of the little ones. generally the big one gets broken up and distributed by the priest, while the lay ministers distribute the little ones…other than the visual effect of holding up the big one during the transubstantiation, I’m not sure there is much of a reason!
 
Dust is not visibly bread, so the scattering of a little is not profanation of the Body.

Seriously, where do people get these super-crumbly hosts that leave visible fragments all over? I’m sure there’s some dust in the ciborium (which is cleaned properly after Communion), but I have never had visible bits stick to my hands or fall when I receive, whether small round host or broken piece of the big one.
 
It is required that the celebrant break the consecrated host at the Fractioning Rite, before commingling the Body and Blood of Christ by placing a piece of the host in the chalice. The celebrant’s host is generally larger and scored to cleanly break for the fractioning and commingling. In addition at the elevation the host should be large enough that the faithful can clearly see it as we are to gaze on the Body of Christ in adoration.

The host should be broken over a patten, but the patten itself should be on a corpal, specifically to catch any particles. That is why the corpal should always be handled diligently and folded as to contain any particles of the consecrated species. It is also why the corpal should be unfolded over a sacrarium.

Using small hosts would not alleviate your concern over particles from breaking the host as any host, large or small will be broken. In some cases in might make it worse if the small host were not made in a way to facilitate the fractioning.
 
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