{"id":27405,"date":"2013-01-19T21:52:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T01:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/01\/receiving-holy-communion-corre\/"},"modified":"2013-01-19T21:52:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T01:52:44","slug":"receiving-holy-communion-corre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/01\/receiving-holy-communion-corre\/","title":{"rendered":"Receiving Holy Communion: correct gestures?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three things came at me recently that I think needs to be looked at with intellectual and affective honesty. That is, from a perspective of faith and reason, the mind and the heart. The issue of how we receive Holy Communion.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>When I was prepared to receive the sacrament of Holy Communion in the third grade by Sister M. Rosetta, CSFN, I was taught to receive our Eucharistic Lord kneeling and on the tongue. In fact, there were no other options available. At some point, for some unknown reason, I began to receive the Eucharist in my hand. And then the parishes I would attend all distributed Holy Communion standing. &#8220;That&#8217;s the way it&#8217;s done.&#8221; Surely there is a disconnect between what I was taught and what I eventually adopted. Mind you, I didn&#8217;t adopt a new way to receive Communion out of protest or because I thought better than the Magisterium. Sheer habit was born because, well, &#8220;just because.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Back to the recent three things.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I heard, saw, experienced:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Pope%20gives%20HC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pope gives HC.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2013\/01\/Pope gives HC-thumb-300x294-13607.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>1. At the beginning of January, I heard Bishop Athanasius Schneider make a reasoned argument for receiving Holy Communion on the tongue <i>and<\/i> kneeling;<\/div>\n<div>2. I&#8217;ve recently been re-adopting, in a conscientious manner, the way I receive Holy Communion: experience tells my heart and my mind that Communion received in a more traditional way, taking my example the papal Masses, is what the Lord requires in a relationship;<\/div>\n<div>3. Deacon Greg Kendra (a permanent deacon of the Brooklyn Diocese) wrote on his blog that he thought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/Catholic\/Communion-Rails-Deacon-Greg-Kandra-01-15-2013.html\">it&#8217;s time to restore a greater sense of reverence<\/a> in our liturgical practice by kneeling at the rail for Communion.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So, who cares what Deacon Kendra thinks? I am sure a few do; I think his blog piece opened a new window of opportunity to rethink pastoral practice for sensible and honest reasons. But if truth be told, Pope Benedict and Bishop Schneider carry the burden of argument.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three things came at me recently that I think needs to be looked at with intellectual and affective honesty. That is, from a perspective of faith and reason, the mind and the heart. The issue of how we receive Holy Communion. When I was prepared to receive the sacrament of Holy Communion in the third &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/01\/receiving-holy-communion-corre\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Receiving Holy Communion: correct gestures?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3081,3082,1713,2129],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}