Why left hand?

[palmas85]

Paris Blues:

I already have taken First Communion!
Two after that…so = 3!

Though I realized that I forgot to make reverance like bowing head or something. :crying: :crying: :crying: I should try to remember to do that this Sunday.

Yeah like bowing head or something… Your instructors in RCIA did teach you that the Eucharist is the actual body and blood of Christ didn’ t they??

 

[Paris_Blues]

palmas85:

Yeah like bowing head or something… Your instructors in RCIA did teach you that the Eucharist is the actual body and blood of Christ didn’ t they??

HAHA! Haven’t you read my other posts OF COURSE I KNEW THAT IT WAS OUR LORD!

Knew that since Janurary 2005…

 

[palmas85]

Paris Blues:

HAHA! Haven’t you read my other posts OF COURSE I KNEW THAT IT WAS OUR LORD!

Knew that since Janurary 2005…

Well just my opinion, tiny as that may be, but since the Eucharist is Christ Jesus in the flesh, not an image or representation, I don’t think I could forget to “bow head or something” as a form of reverence. It shouldn’t be something that you have to categorize, it should be almost an instinctual thing like breathing for instance.

No hard feelings, many who have been in the faith all their lives don’t feel that great sense of awe and humility when in the presence of Christ either.

 

[Fashina86]

GoLatin:

I guess so that you don’t toss It in your mouth.

You can also receive Holy Communion on the tongue. You do not need special permission for this, it is still the “preferred” method of the Church. You cannot be denied Holy Communion if you receive It on the tongue. You also cannot be denied Holy Communion if you choose to receive It kneeling, as many people, myself included, do.

Many, myself included, feel that receiving Holy Communion on the tongue is more reverent.

:yup: I was one of two who receive First Holy Communion that way in my 2nd grade class. We geuflect before rather than kneel then, because we would rather not make the priests any more irritated than possible… (yes that happens in my parish… even genuflecting makes one priest mad.)
Laura
ps but don’t feel pressured… this discussion is getting a bit too heated and things are being taken too personally. this is just my :twocents: and my preference. Good luck

 

[asteroid]

Deacon Ed:

Scotty,

Some of these quotes are quite fradulent, invented by people who are opposed to communion in the hand. Pope John Paul II did, indeed, write what was cited. The citation, however, is incomplete (perhaps a deliberate attempt to mislead?). In the very next sentence we read:

quote :It is obvious that the Church can grant this faculty [distribution of communion] to those who are neither priests or deacons, as is the case with acolytes in the exercise of their ministery, especially if they are destined for future ordination, or with other lay people who are chosen for this to meet a just need, but always after an adequate preparation.

Earlier in the same document the pope speaks of the fact that communion in the hand has been permitted by Rome.

Deacon Ed

Thanks for posting that. I’m not a church historian but did wonder about the quotes - especially about the JPII quote.

The quote did seem to have to do with distributing the host rather than how we receive the host but it seemed that the Pope was saying that eucharistic ministers and suchlike should not be allowed and that the laity who here and elsewhere distribute the host in the mass and later to the sick are doing something wrong.

So thanks for clarifying and showing what John Paul was actually saying.

 

[Petergee]

Left or right, it doesn’t matter. Just don’t do what a surprisingly large number of people do - they come up with BOTH hands stretched out flat towards me, or rounded together into a big cup, often with a gap between them at the bottom of the “cup”, which I’m afraid the Host will fall through. I’m totally baffled why they do this. I have to try to place the Host on ONE of their hands while trying to gently nudge that hand so they will make it more horizontal

 

[palmas85]

I think it has to do with avoiding any possibility of dropping the host. I further believe that the instructions were written in typical beaurocratic fashion.

Approach the Minister of Communion respetfully, hands in proper posture, Make the approved sign of reverence to the Sacred Species, Using your weak hand, for most of us the left, support the strong hand, again for most of us the right, receive in the strong hand and lift directly to the mouth. Allow to dissolve with as little chewing as possible. Do not carry back to your seat or car or anywhere.

At least that is the way it seems to me.

 

[Paris_Blues]

palmas85:

Well just my opinion, tiny as that may be, but since the Eucharist is Christ Jesus in the flesh, not an image or representation, I don’t think I could forget to “bow head or something” as a form of reverence. It shouldn’t be something that you have to categorize, it should be almost an instinctual thing like breathing for instance.

No hard feelings, many who have been in the faith all their lives don’t feel that great sense of awe and humility when in the presence of Christ either.

No hard feelings but I guess that means I must leave the Church then because I guess I forgot to be awe and humility.

Well, for crying out loud, I CAN’T be PERFECT in EVERYTHING!!!

No, it’s just that I forgot to bow or something because I get too excited. I’ll try next time.

Though I prefer to go to Mass at EWTN, their’s is so authentic I always think there’s an error going on at the parish I go to! Even though there’s not really.

Though at RCIA they told us that NOT TO KNEEL DOWN in reverance because it caused a “traffic jam” and people were falling over one another one time so they quit that and have people just bow for reverance but I don’t see that - and that includes myself too…hypocrite!

I’m okay…