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Aside from that point;
Do you think it possible to receive either on the tongue or hand with the same attitudinal disposition of reverence in ones heart?
What else does God care about?
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... others clearly do not understand the significance of the Blessed Sacrament.
Aside from that point;
Do you think it possible to receive either on the tongue or hand with the same attitudinal disposition of reverence in ones heart?
What else does God care about?
Whether you touch with the hand or touch with the tongue, it's still touching.
If you feel yourself unworthy to touch the Body of Christ and must instead have a priest feed it to you, then you are humbling yourself before God.
...and is not a modernist invention.
Whether you touch with the hand or touch with the tongue, it's still touching.
Is it a sin to chew the host?
Would you grind up the Body like a cracker with your teeth?
Don't forget what it is.
So when Father chews the host he has sinned?
Is that what you are saying?
No one has forgotten anthing.
It might not be a sin, but it is still the Body of Christ. I'm sure that being bitten hurts more than not biting at all.
Please answer:
Do you think it possible to receive either on the tongue or hand with the same attitudinal disposition of reverence in ones heart?
What else does God care about?
Personally, I think on the tongue develops a greater reverance and respect.
If on the hand developed as great a reverance then people would be converting to "on the tongue" so as to respect Jesus' body and avoid any chance of profaning His body.
But we all have to develop our own understanding and reverence, huh?
Reverence and respect come from the heart. So, its possible for a person to show the same level of reverence and respect regardless of which method they use to receive Holy Communion.
To suggest that one method is more reverent than another, is to set up the divisions that these debates always create and it suggest that the person who opens such debates, actually lacks the humility that is presumed.
Jim
I think I see what you are saying. You are saying one feels reverance. But what I am thinking is that we think and feel and that when we have both of these increasing in knowledge and love, that our reverance will be both emotional and greater understanding. It is the understanding part that I was speaking of.
Reverence is understanding in your heart that you are receiving the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ and that you are united with him in his body, blood, soul and divinity.
It matters little if I receive from the hand or on the tongue, the point is what is going on in the sacrament itself.
I don't begrudge anyone who desires to receive on the tongue. But I've had it with those who do who continually open threads like this to tell those who receive on the hand, that they are not being reverent and respectful and should stop.
Its the highest act of religious arrogance.
Jim
Understanding and love have to be joined. Without love it is worthless.
But to receive in the hand is to have His body in our hand. Our unworthy hands. It is also to place His body in the hands of those that have little or no reverance for Him in the sacrament of the Eucharist.
"I am not worthy to receive You, but only say the Word and I shall be healed"
For me I think that when a Church uses the "in hand" method that they are bound to give the Body of Jesus to someone that will not recognize it as the Body of Jesus.
In this situation we will see the Body of Christ being treated like a cracker and the Body of Christ will be profaned. I think it only possible to give the Body in the Hand when the recipient is knowledgable and has love for God and His Real Presense in the Eucharist. Otherwise we allow our God to be profaned by the ignorant and/or hard of heart.
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