Allowed to take consecrated host home?

[StThomasMore]

I want to ask my priest for a consecrated host to take home for personal adoration. Will the priest give me a consecrated host to take home? I have heard some people can as long as the host is contained in a metal covering/container.

 

[SemperFidelis]

No, it is strictly fordbidden. It may be brought to you at home for you to receive, but never for you to keep.

Blessings,

Steve

 

[Dylan Michael]

I wouldn't think so.
Those who have the host in their home are receiving because they can't make it to church.

 

[WarriorAngel]

No one can take one.
The only ones at home are for shut ins who receive via a visit.

Adoration must be at His altar.

 

[WarriorAngel]

Welcome to Savior.org!

 

[Tigg]

Agree with everyone else. Never heard of anyone aking to take Him home for adoration altho everyone is perfectly able to adore, worship, thank, ask etc in prayer at any time.

There is to much risk of abuse to allow that for anyone. I can see all sorts of problems if anyone were allowed what you are asking.

 

[Tigg]

Welcome to Savior.org!

Thanks.

 

[JimR-OCDS]

Even Adoration Chapels have to be approved and follow the guidlines set up by the Bishop.



Jim

 

[BAChristian]

It was forbidden by the Church because of the abuses that were happening. Thus it is prohibited.

 

[JoabAnias]

I want to ask my priest for a consecrated host to take home for personal adoration. Will the priest give me a consecrated host to take home? I have heard some people can as long as the host is contained in a metal covering/container.

The only exceptions (with proper permission) I have ever seen were for a shut in nun and a retreat house.

Extraordinary ministers are not permitted to carry communion (in a pyx) to someone who otherwise is capable of getting to Mass themselves.

I asked once to bring communion to someone who had to work. One priest said yes, and another said definitely not. If you find a priest who would allows this let us know.

 

[MoNiCa4316]

I want to ask my priest for a consecrated host to take home for personal adoration. Will the priest give me a consecrated host to take home? I have heard some people can as long as the host is contained in a metal covering/container.

I know the intention is good, but I believe this is against the rubrics

You might be interested in this: adoration at home, without the Blessed Sacrament: http://www.shrineofsaintjude.net/home1102.html and of course when you are able, visit the Blessed Sacrament in the Church

God bless

 

[Catherineanne]

I want to ask my priest for a consecrated host to take home for personal adoration. Will the priest give me a consecrated host to take home? I have heard some people can as long as the host is contained in a metal covering/container.

I know of a vagante bishop in the UK who runs an order and who told me he posts consecrated hosts to the members of his order, so that they can take communion at home on their own. He used to be Liberal Catholic, but his order has left their communion for some reason; I am not sure why.

The reason I know he does this is that he told me, and he offered to send me some, but I declined; I told him that Anglicans can't commune on their own, even with consecrated hosts.

Needless to say, this is not acceptable practice in the Roman Catholic, or indeed Anglican, church.

What is acceptable is to use some other image or object as the focus for veneration, always understanding that it is to help concentration or focus, and does not become the object of the said veneration. That might sound like I am lecturing my Roman brothers and sisters; I don't intend that. I know you understand, the comment is for any non Catholics who happen to be passing.

 

[Michie]

I want to ask my priest for a consecrated host to take home for personal adoration. Will the priest give me a consecrated host to take home? I have heard some people can as long as the host is contained in a metal covering/container.

Absolute no no.

 

[StThomasMore]

The only exceptions (with proper permission) I have ever seen were for a shut in nun and a retreat house.

Extraordinary ministers are not permitted to carry communion (in a pyx) to someone who otherwise is capable of getting to Mass themselves.

I asked once to bring communion to someone who had to work. One priest said yes, and another said definitely not. If you find a priest who would allows this let us know.

well in communion line I saw the priest give a woman an extra communion host, which she put in this metal clip thing. Hence I thought I could bring one home and put it in a monstrance and keep it in my home near my prayer area. It would give me spiritual consolation to have the host close to me. Maybe I could get a dispensation?

 

[JoabAnias]

well in communion line I saw the priest give a woman an extra communion host, which she put in this metal clip thing. Hence I thought I could bring one home and put it in a monstrance and keep it in my home near my prayer area. It would give me spiritual consolation to have the host close to me. Maybe I could get a dispensation?

That metal thing is called a pyx. What was happening was an EMHC collecting an extra host for someone who was ill or shut in.

I understand your good intentions.

Please read this section of Redemptionis Sacramentum, the document of the Church related to what your asking;

[131.] Apart from the prescriptions of Canon 934 § 1, it is forbidden to reserve the Blessed Sacrament in a place that is not subject in a secure way to the authority of the diocesan Bishop, or where there is a danger of profanation. Where such is the case, the diocesan Bishop should immediately revoke any permission for reservation of the Eucharist that may already have been granted.224

[132.] No one may carry the Most Holy Eucharist to his or her home, or to any other place contrary to the norm of law. It should also be borne in mind that removing or retaining the consecrated species for a sacrilegious purpose or casting them away are graviora delicta, the absolution of which is reserved to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.225

Does your parish offer adoration?

 

[StThomasMore]

That metal thing is called a pyx. What was happening was an EMHC collecting an extra host for someone who was ill or shut in.

I understand your good intentions.

Please read this section of Redemptionis Sacramentum, the document of the Church related to what your asking;

[131.] Apart from the prescriptions of Canon 934 § 1, it is forbidden to reserve the Blessed Sacrament in a place that is not subject in a secure way to the authority of the diocesan Bishop, or where there is a danger of profanation. Where such is the case, the diocesan Bishop should immediately revoke any permission for reservation of the Eucharist that may already have been granted.224

[132.] No one may carry the Most Holy Eucharist to his or her home, or to any other place contrary to the norm of law. no they don't i think It should also be borne in mind that removing or retaining the consecrated species for a sacrilegious purpose or casting them away are graviora delicta, the absolution of which is reserved to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.225

Does your parish offer adoration?

no they don't i think

 

[MoNiCa4316]

well in communion line I saw the priest give a woman an extra communion host, which she put in this metal clip thing. Hence I thought I could bring one home and put it in a monstrance and keep it in my home near my prayer area. It would give me spiritual consolation to have the host close to me. Maybe I could get a dispensation?

that is for the sick or homebound

we are not allowed to have Adoration at home...

 

[Michie]

that is for the sick or homebound

we are not allowed to have Adoration at home...

Thats right. There is no dispensation for having our own private consecrated host to have at home.

Would you be prepared to expose Jesus to everything you say, do, watch on TV at home? It can't be done. Ask your priest.

 

[ebia]

Thats right. There is no dispensation for having our own private consecrated host to have at home.

Would you be prepared to expose Jesus to everything you say, do, watch on TV at home? It can't be done. Ask your priest.

What a very odd reason.

 

[Michie]

What a very odd reason.

It's not odd at all. Infact I heard this given as one of the reasons. Besides Canon Law forbidding it.