Do you recieve Communion in the hand or tounge?

Question

I am a Catholic and i hope most of you will say touge, as recieveing in the hand was developed by protestants to DENY Christ's real presence! If you recieve in the hand please consider to change to the touge. Have reverance for our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. As Mother Teresa said: wherever i go in the world the saddest thing i see is people recieve our Lord in the hand

Answer 1

I do both, but will do it by tongue. You are right. My daughter recently received her Holy Communion and her teacher told her to receive it by hand. I was taught by tongue.

Answer 2

The Sacred Sacrement of Communion with the Living Spirit Presence of Jesus Christ is in Spirit and in Truth (in Jesus) !

The physical symbols of bread and wine have nothing to do with this Sacred Communion ! You could use a cookie or a cola (or if broke and starving) just imagine you have some food and drink ! Jesus will still come down into you as soul and strengthen you ! Amen !

Too much concern about the small things and not Eternal Truth Realities ! But our Creator Father God Jesus Christ loves us anyway ! Amen !

We have Communion anywhere, we need no human priest or human minister to do the ritual.in an over-decorated building. "Priesthood of all Believers"

Peace and progress,
Brother Dave, a Jesusonian
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Answer 3

Jesus was so frustrated with the religious rulers of the Jewish church at that time...for being consumed with rules rather than knowing God in a fuller sense. How much better is your tongue than your hand?

How do you think they broke bread with Jesus at the last supper.. ? It does not say that He put the bread directly in their mouths. God would not want us ignorant of such a detail if it were so important and there is no mention of this rule in the New Testament.

Rather the Catholic church fell back to the same state of preaching unworthiness that existed in the Old Testament. Jesus did not come to give us more rules but to illuminate the Fathers love which was the basis of all rules.

We are made righteous by the sacrifice of Christ. We are redeemed from the curse of the law, and our bodies are holy temples, therefore the hand is perfectly fine for breaking bread in rememberance of Christ and his sacrifice for mankind.

Answer 4

This myth of denying Christ's real presence is propaganda developed by Catholic leaders to discredit the protestant movement. Oddly enough, many of the reforms sought by Martin Luther have since been made by the Catholic church. Luther never sought to start a new church but to encourage the Catholic church to turn back toward a closer observation of scripture, in return for which they branded him a heretic.

It's time for you to learn a new word: consubstantiation. Catholics believe in transubstantion, which is the conversion of bread and wine into the ACTUAL flesh and blood of Christ. Lutherans believe in consubstantiation, which is that the ESSENCE of Christ is present in the consecrated elements.

Here is the difference:
I know a Lutheran minister who told those supplying the bread that they must supply bread that will not crumble, or wafers, because they are forcing him to walk on the body of Christ. Then he went to the chancel, swept up the crumbs, and put them on the lawn for the birds. He thought Christ would have approved, since he had to come up with a respectful way of dealing with Christ's body in this form.

Gee--I don't see a whole lot of difference there.

Where in the Bible does it say that Jesus hand fed his disciples as if they were babies? It was a Passover meal. Jesus also gave them the wine after He had given thanks and said, "Drink of it, all of you; for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins." That's right...He didn't say, "The wine is mine!" as priests did for centuries. This nitpicking is an invention of the Catholic church, which would much rather that its people never read the Bible. It was forbidden at one time, then discouraged, and is still seen as something the ordinary Catholic need not concern him/herself with. Just listen to the priest. You know this is true; it's how you were brought up.

I thought one of the scripture readings for today could be applied to this:

Therefore do not let anyone condemn you in matters of food and drink or of observing festivals, new moons or sabbaths. These are only a shadow of what is to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. Do not let anyone disqualify you, insisting on self-abasement and worship of angels, dwelling on visions, puffed up without cause by a human way of thinking, and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.

Of course, you're Catholic. You aren't supposed to be reading this stuff.

Answer 5

I'm Catholic, and I receive in the hand; it's just what I've always been taught to do, even in my Catholic school. At my church, it's what people typically do, but I know there's variation at different ones. (I have visited a few where the priest gave me a strange look when I received in the hand.) It might appear that people receive in the hand or on the tongue, but they really all receive Jesus in their hearts. To me, as long as people truly believe and accept the presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, I'm not going to nitpick about how they receive.

Answer 6

I am Catholic also and it took me a long time to make the change from receiving the host on my tongue to receiving it in my hand. I often watch people as they receive Communion and only a very few (mostly older people) still receive the Host on their tongue. There are Eucharistic Ministers who do not like placing it on the Tongue. Thankfully we still have the option to do it the old way.

Answer 7

We Lutherans believe in Christ's real presence, and most of us receive in the hand--some do receive in the mouth.

One thing you need to keep in mind is that the bread in times past was not like today's wafers. The wafers we use today are specifically designed to be crumb-free, and so the concern about Christ's flesh falling to the floor and being trampled under foot is now moot.

Answer 8

How is receiving the bread on your tongue better? I don't see how the way in which one receives the bread before consuming it matters. Communion represents Christ's body and blood that was given to us for the remission of our sins. We partake in Communion in remembrance of this sacrifice for our sake. Obviously there is disagreement about Communion among Catholics and Protestants.

Don't you think that you are splitting hairs over something as little as how you receive Communion? There are far greater issues to evaluate than the one you are posing. First and for most the most important thing is to accept Christ and his sacrifice for us, confessing our sins before God and having faith in Him alone for our salvation. As children of God we need to be telling others about Christ and living a life patterned after Christ and led by the Holy Spirit.

I think we get caught up in narrow thinking. No where in the Bible does it tell us that its better to receive Communion on the tongue rather than the hand. The only thing the Bible really addresses about Communion is that we need to take it seriously and with a right heart. If we are sinning against God and partaking in Communion there are serious repercussions for doing so and in essence by partaking in communion under such circumstances we are mocking or making light of God. God looks at our hearts. The condition of our heart is far greater than how one receives the Sacrament of Communion...whether it by hand or tongue.

Answer 9

I used to receive it on the tongue when I was in a different country,but when I came to the U.S,i noticed that most of the people receive it in the hand,so now I receive it in the hand too.........I will try to change that,because what you mentioned in your question sounds reasonable and right.

God bless you!!!!

Answer 10

Hand

I never heard of this! I don't want anyone's hand in my mouth.
It is a symbol of Jesus's body. I don't think He would get all technical about this, do you?

It all means the same thing.