Skimpy Communion

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Pretty normal in my part of the world.
When you have a variable number of communicants ranging from 75-150 or more, it becomes kind of inevitable for a priest to want to make sure no one is turned away. I don't know what your situation is, though.
 
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Sometimes it is just the way the prosphora crumbles. Literally. It is the consistency of the bread. We've gotten prosphora that is very doughy and as I'm cutting up the remains for antidoron, it balls up. Other times it crumbles into tiny pieces and I'm brushing the crumbs up for a couple minutes.
 
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For months now I’ve been the Reader for Matins, Reader for the liturgy, candle-lighting dude, post communion prayers Reader, and antidoron guy. I end up dead last at communion and it has been slim pickens with portions. But, whether it’s a few microns or a full mouth of the Eucharist—-IT IS CHRIST!
 
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Sometimes it is just the way the prosphora crumbles. Literally. It is the consistency of the bread. We've gotten prosphora that is very doughy and as I'm cutting up the remains for antidoron, it balls up. Other times it crumbles into tiny pieces and I'm brushing the crumbs up for a couple minutes.
And sometimes somebody made undersized prosphora.
 
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And sometimes somebody made undersized prosphora.

Not mine! I came in with the first one I made in years, it was huge and had the density of well... lead. Father took a look and said, "Not bad but we'll have antidoron for another service with that" :D
 
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I didn't want to make a whole thread about this, but I communed at the Russian church tonight, the priest there actually throws the host into your mouth from a couple of inches away. I just noticed it at the last minute when I saw the person in front of me commune, otherwise I was prepared to take the spoon in my mouth like we still do at my church. Naturally it was very skimpy. If you're serving in that precarious way I guess you don't want to toss a large spoonful. Has anyone else received this way since covid?
 
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I believe a very lucid chap made such a system in post #4. ^_^^_^^_^

Serenity now!

no matter the physical size of what you get, you are still communing with infinite Divinity.
 
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Yes, I'm aware that even a few molecules provide what two very lucid chaps noted in posts 4 and 7 :D. I was just asking because things suddenly got skimpy at the beginning of Lent.

sometimes the Lamb for a Presanctified is cut smaller too, since there are usually fewer people at the Presanctified.
 
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sometimes the Lamb for a Presanctified is cut smaller too, since there are usually fewer people at the Presanctified.
So are they, uh, taking thought for tomorrow?
 
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