Extra eucharist question

[kern]

This is a question about an incident that happened involving two friends of mine, one Catholic, the other a non-religious person (I'll call them C and NR for short). C invited NR to the church one Sunday, and NR had never been to a Catholic church before. Apparently C forgot to tell NR that he was not supposed to join the communion line.

So NR goes in the communion line. He told me he had no idea he wasn't supposed to be there, but once he had actually gotten the wafer he had figured it out. So he didn't eat the wafer, and then when he got back to the pew he stuck it in his shoe (don't ask me why).

Now after the service, NR pulls the wafer out of his shoe and asks C what they should do with it. C's decision was to eat it. Was this the right decision, in your opinion?

-Chris

 

[VOW]

To Kern:

In my opinion, absolutely.

And I would think, I would hope, I would certainly PRAY that NR was moved by the reverence that C had for the Host.

You gotta admit, someone who would willingly EAT an object which had been in your shoe (SHOE?) certainly has profound convictions.


Peace be with you,
~VOW

 

[Wolseley]

He did exactly the right thing.

You are free to recieve Holy Communion twice in one day, if the occasion arises (such as a Saturday afternoon wedding, and Mass that evening, for example), so C wasn't violating anything by consuming the Host.

Secondly, the job of any Catholic is to treat the Sacred Species with the utmost of respect and proper use, and the proper use of the Host is to be consumed, which is what C did, before any desecration came to It.

I recall a woman who wrote in to Catholic Answers once and said she had a Host at home in her private prayer area, because she liked being close to the Body of Christ, but wondered if she was doing the right thing by keeping It. Father Stravinskas told her that what she was doing was absolutely forbidden and that she was to retrieve the Host and consume it immediately.

And if that's what he told her, then I think we can safely say that your friend did the correct thing as well. I think that NR is to be highly commended for his sensitivity and respect to beliefs which he did not share, BTW.

 

[kern]

Three times is too many? There are churches nearby that do three masses every day.

-Chris

 

[Hoonbaba]

Originally posted by Wolseley
He did exactly the right thing.

You are free to recieve Holy Communion twice in one day, if the occasion arises (such as a Saturday afternoon wedding, and Mass that evening, for example), so C wasn't violating anything by consuming the Host.

Secondly, the job of any Catholic is to treat the Sacred Species with the utmost of respect and proper use, and the proper use of the Host is to be consumed, which is what C did, before any desecration came to It.

I recall a woman who wrote in to Catholic Answers once and said she had a Host at home in her private prayer area, because she liked being close to the Body of Christ, but wondered if she was doing the right thing by keeping It. Father Stravinskas told her that what she was doing was absolutely forbidden and that she was to retrieve the Host and consume it immediately.

And if that's what he told her, then I think we can safely say that your friend did the correct thing as well. I think that NR is to be highly commended for his sensitivity and respect to beliefs which he did not share, BTW.

I thought Communion was strictly forbidden for non-Catholics...

-Jason

 

[Wolseley]

Three times is too many? There are churches nearby that do three masses every day.

The "twice only in one day" rule applies to lay Catholics, not to priests celebrating Mass.

I thought Communion was strictly forbidden for non-Catholics...

It is. Re-read the posts, and you'll see that it was the non-Catholic who put the Host in his shoe; it was the Catholic who consumed It.

 

[Hoonbaba]

Originally posted by Wolseley

The "twice only in one day" rule applies to lay Catholics, not to priests celebrating Mass.

It is. Re-read the posts, and you'll see that it was the non-Catholic who put the Host in his shoe; it was the Catholic who consumed It.

Hi Wolseley,

Long time no talk Anyway it Kern said:

"Now after the service, NR pulls the wafer out of his shoe and asks C what they should do with it. C's decision was to eat it. Was this the right decision, in your opinion?"

Doesn't it sound like C's decision was for NR to eat it? That's how I initially understood it. hehe

-Jason

 

[Wolseley]

Well, I read it as saying, "C made the personal decision to take It and eat It"; if NC had eaten it, I would have thought he would have worded it as "He told NC to eat It".

But I'm no mind-reader---let's ask kern, it's his post. So, kern: which way was it? Lay it on us, Cat Daddy.

 

[kern]

It was the Catholic who ate it.

-Chris

 

[Hoonbaba]

Originally posted by kern
It was the Catholic who ate it.

-Chris

Ahh! ok =)

hehe, sorry about that

-Jason