Thanks for helping your son. I noticed a few more altar servers at our parish are receiving on the tongue also. Good teaching!
I have to hold my hands up and admit I know very well that receiving on the hand is wrong but I still do it. I am just too embarrassed to kneel down and take it in front of everyone. But since I often go to a Traditional Church it is not always a problem. I must pray for courage.
Right across Northern Europe the crops are failing because of terrible weather. I see in the UAE they had two years of rain in a couple of hours.
I and my husband and also my sons family recieve on the tongue. It's accepted now in our parish but we are the only ones. I still find it difficult to go against the tide and have been refused in the past. I offer it as a sacrifice. I am not one who likes standing out. My son went to Mass to Augustinian church the priest kept insisting about the hand. He had been to the morning vegetable market and felt his hands were not clean anyway. In the end the priest gave it to him on the tongue and when he returned to the altar the priest gave out about holier than though types who broke the rules as laid down by the Bishop for reception of Holy Communion. We really need to pray for priests many who have lost the plot.
Right Sterph, I'm going to begin discussions with the wee woman on it. I went to confession the other day at our local monastery (there are brothers up there) - and she had me ask one of them was it okay for her to go again to confession (she made her first confession with her classmates a couple of weeks ago). The brother asked when the first communion was scheduled for, and when I told him June - he said that was too far away, and to bring her to confession surely. So there is a bit of time for us to discuss her receiving on the tongue....
That’s part of the push. We don’t like standing out, either. It’s a holy time and we approach Jesus. I can’t kneel on the floor but I do receive on the tongue. Right now we are always in the front row reserved for handicapped and escorts since my husband has mobility issues. Holy Communion is brought to us usually by the priest or deacon fortunately. But Our Lady has asked us to pray for priests for a long time. They are under attack.
Part of the problem is it is made so difficult to receive on the tongue that we have to pray for courage. Imagine that!
Yes. Silence. It occurred to me that the people in UAE were not prepared for this flooding. They probably do not have much of a storm drainage infrastructure.
I would try again but not last in line, maybe 4th or 5th, just enough for him to know the line was ending. He may be sufficiently afraid of being embarrassed in front of more than just you.
I admire very much people who swim against the tide and receive on the tongue. I will have to try and do better. Usually there is at least one person who does this, so I will be in good company.
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I receive on the tongue during weekday Holy Masses. But while assisting at the 4 weekend Holy Masses, I receive at the altar on the tongue as well. I thought that besides being my personal preference, it would set a good example. I can't really say it has had any impact. I would estimate that only 1 in 5 still receive on the tongue. When applicable to the readings, I plug reminders of the True Presence and the representation of Christ's Sacrifice on the Altar. I think it is important to also periodically remind everyone of the fracturing of the Sacred Host just before the Agnus Dei. The DUAL Consecration and Fracturing of the Sacred Host, are the key Liturgical actions within Holy Mass proclaiming the true Renewal of the Holy Sacrifice of Calvary. As last week's Preface proclaimed: It is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation, at all times to acclaim you, O Lord, but in this time above all to laud you yet more gloriously, when Christ our Passover has been sacrificed. He never ceases to offer himself for us but defends us and ever pleads our cause before you: he is the sacrificial Victim who dies no more, the Lamb, once slain, who lives for ever. Therefore, overcome with paschal joy, every land, every people exults in your praise and even the heavenly Powers, with the angelic hosts, sing together the unending hymn of your glory, as they acclaim:
Great post. Good example on your part. Our priest mentioned the fracturing rite last Sunday in his homily!
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