Fellow Catholics, a question about the Holy Eucharist, how do you recieve the Body of Christ?

I receive Our Lord on the tongue and on my knees. For I am not worthy to receive Him in my hand, and I kneel because If I stand in front of the King of kings I show disrespect to Him that made me. If He were to appear right there in church in the present, I venture to say we would all prostrate ourselves in front of Him, Our King! Our Creator! Our God! God bless you, Joel

BTW, I have been critized for this also, But I don't care how other people feel about this.

Oh, That's right Kate, I only receive from the Priest. Before any Euchistristic ministers are to be used, when their is over 200 people in the church. This is in the rubics of the church and look how far we have come. Some churches, the priest will sit down and let the ministers give out communion. and there might be a handful of people in the church. This is totally wrong and a parishner has a right to receive from a priest.

In the hand

It is a more ancient practice and more practical

As one who give out Communion every day, I cannot tell you how often my fingers have been licked bu people who do not know how properly to receive on the tongue

I do wish that we had an altar rail and could kneel at it to receive

since that would reduce very much the intances of people who walk away with the host in their hands

I also like the common Byzantine or practice of receiving both the host and Blood for a spoon that never touches mouth or tongue. This practice is also permitted fro the Precious Blood in the Novus Ordo Latin Rite

One can receive very reverently in the hand or not so on the tongue. The attitude makes all the difference

Joel. I have been receiving on the tongue, kneeling since May of 2005 when I found the parish I am in now, Assumption Grotto in Detroit.

We were fortunate to have Bishop Schneider at our parish in July, at which time I took many photographs for my blog. I do a photojournal out of my parish, where we celebrate Mass in both ordinary and extraordinary form. The pastors of Assumption Grotto in Detroit, retained the altar rail and it has been in use - a preference of the parishioners who commute to the inner city for the experience.

I do have a blogpost up now with information & links on how you can get the podcast, DVD, CD and book from EWTN.

See links below. This is my first time posting here, so hopefully the links all work!

God bless and prayers on your discernment.

From Catholic Encyclopedia, Our Sunday Visitor, page 26 "Comes from the Latin abluo, and refers to a washing or cleansing. In liturgical language it refers principally to the washing of the hands at Mass by the celebrant, the purification of his fingers which have touched the Sacred Species after Communion, and the purification of the sacred vessels at the same time.

Usually this is done by pouring wine and/or water over the index fingers and thumbs of the celebrant into the chalice. It may also be done by inserting these fingers into the water found inside the ablution cup.

This witnesses to the Church's great reverence for the Body and Blood of Christ and her concern that no remains or particles of that heavenly food be lost or unintentionally profaned. It is also a reminder that the Church's Magisterium has defined (at the Council of Trent, for one) that even the tiniest particle of the Sacred Species is the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, substantially present in this sacrament.

This is good reason not to take it in the hand.

I dislike taking it in my hand. As someone else posted, it imitates Protestantism.

Every knee should bow before the Lord. So if the Body and Blood are Truly Christ why are Catholics just stepping up and turning away?

We are either ...causing disruption by kneeling, or to genuflect, or bow at the waist...just kinda' inferior to a kneeling position.

That's my opinion.

Women: Cover your head and Kneel before the Lord.

Usually I receive it in the hand but lately I have received the Body of Christ by mouth. What did the Bishop Athanasius Schneider say about it out of curiosity?

I stopped going to mass for thirty yrs and Praise Jesus Christ his Mother and all the Holy saints i returned but it took a tragedy my Wife getting cancer and dieing to open my eyes. But as i remember before i stopped attending Mass when receiving the most sacred body and blood of Christ we kneeled at the altar rail and received on our tongue and i might note we did not hold hands while praying the our Father.But now after 5 yrs returned to active faith it is the norm that we stand and receive in hand and most hold hands now while praying the our Father.I find nothing wrong with receiving by hand but it does make sacrilege of the Body and Blood of Christ more easier done such as by certain Gays and Satanist.....

Jesus said "take...eat..."; he never said to receive in the mouth. However, Orthodox Christians receive under both species under the method called intinction...whereby the priest dips the bread into the wine/Precious Blood and then places it into the communicant's mouth. Other Orthodox communities distribute the wine/Precious blood via a tiny gold spoon which is poued into the communicant's mouth. The communicant then takes a pice of the bread as he/she returns to his/her seat. I prefer receiving in the hand....I understand the two ways, though. But not kneeling.

I receive our Lord on my tongue from the priest. I can't bring myself to touch His most sacred body. I should kneel as my mother does but I don't, I receive Him standing up, but I agree with her if Christ were to appear we wouldn't be standing or even kneeling but prostrated on the ground in the presence of our King, Creator, Lord and God.

Pray the Rosary and receive the Sacraments for the glory of the Incarnate Word.

Communion in the hand was something that Protestants orchestrated to deny the Real Presence. Of course most Protestants had a deep hatred for the priesthood and so could not offer their unhappy followers a valid sacrament. There is not enough room here to delve into all the heresies of the Protestants suffice it to say they are outside of the true Church and thus cannot merit salvation.

For your information, the current Novus Ordo Church in Rome is not the true Catholic Church at all. Since the rise of John XXIII and his Second Vatican Council the liberal and modernist wing of ecclesiastics has hijacked the Church, changing everything from the way the Mass was celebrated for 2000 years to changes in the rite of ordination and the rite of episcopal consecration.

Changes that have gone beyond what the Anglicans had done several centuries ago and have since had their holy orders declared invalid. So it is doubtful that there are any valid priests and bishops in the NewChurch today. Hence no valid sacraments to receive during communion. So why do they make a big fuss about receiveing a host on the tongue when the real damage is already done? We can have positive doubts of there being any Real Presence in the sacrament offered during Novus Ordo masses.

It is important for you and all Catholics to familiarize themselves with the teachings (papal encyclicals) of the Church, which in most cases are addressed to all the faithful. Read about the Council of Trent Session 22 regarding the Mass. Read the papal bull Quo Primum by Pope St. Pius V. Read the syllabus written by Pope Pius IX and the encyclical against modernism by Pope St. Pius X as also the encylical Mediator Dei by Pope Pius XII. It is important to be familiar with Church history and know that certain enemies of the Church have always sought to destroy her. Chief among them are the Jews, Freemasons and Communists.

All is not lost though. There is still a number of priests and bishops who have rejected the modernist revolution in the Church. The traditional Catholic Mass can still be found in certain locations. For more information on this see the websites below.

www.traditionalmass.org

www.cmri.org

www.traditio.com

www.sgg.org

www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com ( I send you here for the wealth of information but beware that these guys hold some extreme views in denying the baptism of desire.)

Always in on the tongue, unless I am EMHC'ing, and then it's by hand. In addition, I always try to genuflect prior to receiving on the tongue.

But, I love the TLM's way of kneeling, no Amen, and on the tongue best of all.