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Just do it lad.

Don't let the way other people in your parish perceive you affect your personal conduct. Receiving on the tongue is the more ancient and liturgically correct way to commune anyways.

I remember when i first knelt down and recieved on the tounge, the father had the most shocked expression in his face (possilby just the fact no one does it). Anyways after the first initial reaction they wont bother you, and who knows you might inspire others to recieve it with reverance as well. Good luck, God bless.

>>635265

Recieving in the hand isnt desecrating the eucharist

when you recieve in the hand check if there is any visible particles in ur palm if not then ur good since the host is made in such a way to avoid crumbs that shouldn't be a issue.

>Receiving on the tongue is the more ancient and liturgically correct way to commune anyways

Assyrian Church receive in the hand their liturgy is used since at least the 7th century and is traditionally ascribed to Thaddeus (one of the seventy) and Mari as composers of it.

Can someone explain to me the concern over crumbs? If it's the substance of God (which I think of and call "Godstuff" the only uncreated thing ever, that makes up the three persons/hypostases of the Trinity and is separate from all matter by being unmade, so angels to me are a kind of matter as well) how can it be "desecrated" by us or anything created?

>>635291

Every crumb is the body, blood, soul, and divinity of christ.

Ill just leave this here

>>635296

I am still confused as to why that matters? My understanding is that is that the form is substituted for the substance of God (specifically the second person), so how could it be desecrated by something created? How could a crumb being on a created floor affect God and "desecrate" Him? He's already immanent in every single thing in the created world, and all things are in Him. Where is the desecration?

>>635298

You're actually touching on an interesting point of theology. We know that God is omnipresent, and yet He seems to be more present in some places than in others. For example, we know that God was present in all of creation during His time as Christ, but was physically present as the man Jesus Christ in all His fullness. How can these states be reconciled?

During the Divine Liturgy, bread and wine become the Body and Blood of our Lord. During this time (and during his time incarnate on Earth) Christ was present bodily, as flesh and blood. God is always present as Spirit, but His taking on a material form is significant for countless reasons. Holy Communion reminds us of this – we take in our Lord, who became matter, as matter into our matter because through His matter we are saved. He came bodily to help us reach salvation and we receive him bodily.

This is why Holy Communion is treated with such special reverence. Yes, God is present in every atom of the universe He's made for us. Yes, God is present in His image and likeness on human beings. Yes, God is present within the faithful as the Holy Spirit. However, God taking on physical form is unique, a physical, palpable interaction with God as He humbles Himself to our level as created beings. Dropping crumbs of Holy Communion is fully and entirely equivalent to dropping pieces of God on the dirt. It's unbelievably, unimaginably disrespectful because it's pieces of the form He took on to redeem creation itself.

They dont even form crumbs unless you manually crunch it.

This is the same level of delusion as germophobes.

>>635297

the short is good, the guy should go easy on the daily bread.

>>635320

Where can a Prot read about the theology of the Catholic Eucharist? I'd like to compare it to Luther's thoughts on it, and to compare it to the writings of St. Justin Martyr.

>>635386

Not the same person, but the Catholic Encyclopedia is generally a helpful starting point on Catholic topics.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05573a.htm

OP here

Took communion on the tongue. Priest started lowering the Eucharist but realised my mouth was open. Asides that, I find this method easier and safer in preserving the sanctity of the communion. I urge all who share the same anxiety I had to just try it.

>>635265

Go to an FSSP church if you can. Problem solved.

In my Church everyone receives communion on the tongue by lining up to kneel in front of the railing with our hands under the cloth.

See? No one shamed you, God bless.

>>635354

https://youtu.be/BiUqDa_Gzj0

I asked a priest about this while I was in the RCIA/Confirmation process and he said that they're obligated to give communion both ways The only way they can refuse you is if there's a good suspicion you're going to do something bad with it. With the number of Catholics who haven't been to confession in how long receiving communion no reasonable person is going to care if you kneel even if you're the only one doing it.