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The Sacrament of the Eucharist
Topic Started: Wednesday, 27. September 2006, 23:23 (1,481 Views)
Rose of York
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Gerard
Oct 10 2006, 12:08 PM
Josephine,

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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


I look down and am very aware that God made man is humble enough to allow me to touch Him. Is the person behind me thinking "that woman is irreverent, it is as though she is having a biscuit."
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This woman never notices how other people receive. Concentrating too hard on doing things as perfectly as possible herself.

As we tell the children, this is your special time with Jesus. You've got Him all to yourself for this little while after you receive Him.

My own children (now adults) have called this Mum's "gone off". In a sense I have - gone off for a quiet chat to Jesus (in my own mind).

The worries only arise before Communion, never after - UNLESS someone nudges me and tries to speak to me. It has happened. Partly my fault, perhaps, because I have stopped kneeling down due to an old knee injury which now makes kneeling painful.

I suppose people think you are not praying if you are not kneeling. But even so, straight after Communion! I'm afraid they didn't get much response. I was so surprised I just stared and went back to my thoughts without speaking.

I did get buttonholed after Mass but they did apologise.

Josephine
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Well, we have just started the programme for First Holy Communion in our parish.

We ask for the prayers of members of the forum for this year's candidates over the British Isles as a whole, their families and catechists and that those who received in years gone by who have strayed or lapsed may find their way back to Jesus in this most Blessed Sacrament.

Josephine
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Today on Sat TV I watched the Holy Father distributing Communion to several clergy, mainly Cardinals and Archbishops. As each reached the head of the queue I tried to guess from age, appearance, vestments etc whether he would receive in the hand or on the tongue?

It was impossible to do so correctly!

I would say 25% received on the tongue.

Hardly an indication that the Vatican is packed with Trads!


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CARLO
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Gerard

Carlo,

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Hardly an indication that the Vatican is packed with Trads!


Who said it was? When I look at the documents of V2 and read the history it looks like 50/50 to me, and thats probably no accident.

Gerry
"The institutional and charismatic aspects are quasi coessential to the Church's constitution" (Pope John Paul II, 1998).
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CARLO
Apr 6 2007, 10:15 PM
Today on Sat TV I watched the Holy Father distributing Communion to several clergy, mainly Cardinals and Archbishops.

What is the average age of Archbishops and Cardinals?
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pete

Saint Cyril once said, that when you receive Holy Communion in the hand, make your hands a throne for the King of Kings.
God bless
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Clare
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CARLO
Apr 6 2007, 11:15 PM
I would say 25% received on the tongue.

Hardly an indication that the Vatican is packed with Trads!

And to think, when Communion in the hand was reluctantly permitted, the majority of the world's bishops didn't want it.

Slippery slope.

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Gerard

The Holy Spirit blows where He will.

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pete

I find the Communion Antiphon unnecessary and distracting. At the very moment when we should have only one thing on our minds the congregation are searching for the Mass sheet to read the Communion Antiphon instead of preparing themselves to receive their Redeemer Body Soul and Divinity and that requires 100% concentration.
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Apr 7 2007, 10:54 AM
The Holy Spirit blows where He will.

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http://www.unavoce.org/cith.htm

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1. The legal status of the two methods It is the law of the universal Church, in the Latin Rite, (to which most of us belong) that we receive communion in the traditional manner. To receive on the hand is only an “indult”, or concession that is in effect here and there. It does not exist in the greater part of the world. For example, for a while it was allowed in the Philippines, but then the bishops there changed their minds, and rescinded the permission. Another way of illustrating this same point is to recall that in those countries where the indult for communion in the hand has been granted by the Holy See, an individual bishop may forbid the practice. But, no bishop has the authority to forbid the traditional way of receiving communion: on the tongue. Thus, the point of view of liturgical law, the two are very far from equal. It must be further noted that the relevant legislation “strongly urges and exhorts” us all to receive communion in the traditional manner, which is officially described as “more reverent”.


So why do something which is, by implication, less reverent? Given the choice, why choose "less reverent" over "more reverent"?

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Apr 7 2007, 11:23 AM

So why do something which is, by implication, less reverent? Given the choice, why choose "less reverent" over "more reverent"?

Clare.

I see no implication there, that receiving Holy Communion in the hand is less reverent that reception on the tongue. The preferred method of reception varies from country to country.There are places and circumstances in which clean water and soap are hard to come by. I receive on the hand. If I had do something, on my way to Mass, that got my hands dirty, and there were no washing facilities, of course I would receive on the tongue.
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Pete. I too find the Communion Antiphon unnecessary and distracting. I think it can ommitted if a hymn is sung during the distribution of Holy Communion. In fact I have seen the antiphon ommitted in many Holy Masses on websites in the USA. I once expressed this opinion to a priest who was a convert High CoE minister. He gave me a response to support it but it didn't convince me. On the next Sunday it was part of his homily. "During the week someone......." . He then spotted me smiling in the bench but he continued. We laughed about it afterwards. I can't remember his defence.
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PJD

I agree with Rose, and believe I have mentioned this before - but there is no lack of reverence in receiving the Host in the hand than on the tongue. Both are equal in my opinion.

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