The question of how best to receive Christ in the Holy Communion is an open answer to everyone based on spirituality, preference, and conscience. The Church duelly permit the two popular methods of either receiving the Holy Communion directly impressed on the tongue by the minister, or through receiving the sacred specie on our palms.
The oldest practice of recieving the communion was on the tongue through an ordained minister. The dawn of the Second Vatican counsel came with many changes which many are yet to integrate.
However, if the two methods of receiving the Holy Communion are both acceptable, which method do you prefer and why?
land” of heaven, said Pope John Paul II about his latest encyclical, “Ecclesia de Eucharistia,” on the Eucharist in its relationship to the church. (CNS photo illustration by Bob Roller) (April 16, 2003) See stories to come.
