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The Sacrament of the Eucharist
Topic Started: Wednesday, 27. September 2006, 23:23 (1,482 Views)
Angus Toanimo
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And this is me, right now:

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Sláinte!

:D

Now, may we get back to 'Communion in the hand?' ;)
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I'm assuming we could say the Communion in hand came into "fashion" like Rose said, in the 80's, when we began having Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist as a fixture during Mass and for those who brought Communion to the homebound. Gone are most of the communion rails, kneeling to receive the Eucharist, altar boys who would catch the wafer if it fell and Communion is dispensed by the priest and those who have been trained to assist in that distribution. Maybe it was faster to dispense in the hand? I see a combination of it during Mass, but most receive in the hand. Again, a sign of the times?
Karin

Hvaljen Isus i Marija. Kraljica Mira, moli za nas.
"Praised be Jesus and Mary. Queen of Peace, Pray for Us."

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Patrick,

That is the strangest clapping smiley I have ever seen :o . Even so I might have used it had you added it to the collection on our left here. Any chance of a less OTT one? and added to our collection?

Carlo,

:D


Karin,

What do you mean by sign of the times?
2006 C.E. ?
or 100A.D. ?

Gerry
"The institutional and charismatic aspects are quasi coessential to the Church's constitution" (Pope John Paul II, 1998).
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Karin
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2006, Gerry. I know I'm old, but I can't remember back to 100 A.D. when the traditions began. :(
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Gerard
Oct 9 2006, 04:16 PM
That is the strangest clapping smiley I have ever seen :o . Even so I might have used it had you added it to the collection on our left here. Any chance of a less OTT one? and added to our collection?

Consider it done. :clap:
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Patrick

Thanks

:clap: :clap: :clap:

Gerry
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When I was a child I received Holy Communion on the tongue because that was the way it was done and only the consecrated hands of the priest should touch the precious body of Jesus.


However, there was simultaneously such a taboo against poking out one's tongue that I was never entirely comfortable with it just for the instant before receiving. Once one has received, of course, there are other things to think of and the earlier discomfort is forgotten.


Then we were permitted to receive in the hand. Such relief - bliss even. No distracting discomfort in the queue for Communion - can concentrate entirely on what one is about to receive.


Now, receiving in the hand is, increasingly, coming to be seen as less reverent than on the tongue. Gradually, I have become a bit ill at ease with both methods.

I wish "someone" would lay down the law and say "This how it should be done - no arguments". People will grumble for a while and then gradually subside. Our consciences will be free to work on other things. And we can go to Communion in blissful anticipation of meeting Our Lord instead of worrying if we're doing it the best possible way.

Well, that's my twopenn'orth - for what it's worth!

Josephine



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Josephine,

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Gradually, I have become a bit ill at ease with both methods


Thats such a pity. Just look at the damage done when people accuse others of not being reverent enough.

Its HOW you do it Josephine, not what you do. God looks at your heart not your tongue or your hands.

Gerry
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Thank you, Gerard. You are right, of course.

For the record, we (my friend and I) teach our First Holy Communion candidates both methods and tell them that they can choose. We practise both methods with before their "big day" using ice cream wafers cut up and Ribena.

And choose they do.

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You are lucky, Josephine; in my day we knelt in row, we stuck our tongues out and the head teacher came along and placed the tip of a ruler on our tongues.

And certainly no Ribena - it was probably too expensive anyway!
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Oooh Derekap, Health and Safety (had it existed then) would have been in fits!

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Oct 10 2006, 11:17 AM
Thank you, Gerard. You are right, of course.

For the record, we (my friend and I) teach our First Holy Communion candidates both methods and tell them that they can choose. We practise both methods with before their "big day" using ice cream wafers cut up and Ribena.

And choose they do.

Josephine

At Convent School pre V2 the Sisters trained us for FHC by using unconsecrated Communion wafers.

Boy this thread brings back the memories! :D

Days of Hope!

Gloria!

CARLO
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Gerard
Oct 9 2006, 03:16 PM
Patrick,

That is the strangest clapping smiley I have ever seen :o . Even so I might have used it had you added it to the collection on our left here. Any chance of a less OTT one? and added to our collection?

Carlo,

:D


Karin,

What do you mean by sign of the times?
2006 C.E. ?
or 100A.D. ?

Gerry

Gerard

But I really LOVE Patrick's original Happy Clappy Smiley!

The other one is so tame.

And I also like the praying lady Smiley posted by Rose but could the blue headscarf be changed to a black mantilla? :sotc:

Pax

CARLO
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Helen
Oct 8 2006, 03:37 PM
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Oct 8 2006, 02:14 PM


Patrick
Oct 8 2006, 01:19 PM
Communion in the hand was condemned by the Synod of Rouen in 650 AD to put an end to widespread abuses that occurred from this practice, and as a safeguard against sacrilege.

Was the sacrilege to do with consecration of hands, or cleanliness of priests' (ie consecrated) hands?

Helen,

No, because after the Consecration, he'd keep finger and thumb together to prevent irreverence towards even the smallest particle. Then, after Communion was the Ablution.

Neither of these things were/are done by lay people who touch the Blessed Sacrament. Priests' hygiene was not the reason.
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But I really LOVE Patrick's original Happy Clappy Smiley!

The other one is so tame.


I think that makes you an honourary happy clappy.

:clap: :clap: :clap:

Gerry

PS the "tame" smiley seems to have stopped clapping?
"The institutional and charismatic aspects are quasi coessential to the Church's constitution" (Pope John Paul II, 1998).
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