Part 1. Become Catholic if you are not already. You must be of the Catholic faith to take Communion. Baptized children will be prepared to receive Sacraments in their regular classes, but if you are an adult you will most likely participate in a process called RCIA Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults , learning what the Catholic Church teaches, and preparing you for Reconciliation, first Communion, and Confirmation.
If you were Baptized in another Christian denomination you will make what is called a "Profession of Faith," to convert to Catholicism. Accept Communion in a state of grace. The Eucharist may not be received while a person has mortal sin in their soul. If you have committed a mortal sin a major sin which has seriously damaged your relationship with God , you must go to Reconciliation and repent before receiving Communion.
Believe in the doctrine of transubstantiation. You must believe in transubstantiation, which means that the bread and wine are actually transformed into the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Christ. The offerings only appear as bread and wine, but are believed to actually be parts of Christ himself. Participate in the Eucharistic fast. This means you cannot eat or drink anything for at least one hour before taking Communion. Water and medicine are excluded from the fast.
Those who are elderly or ill can be excused from fasting, with the priest's permission. Ensure you are not under ecclesiastic censure. Those who are under ecclesiastic censure, meaning they have been excommunicated from the church or continually commit grave sins, cannot receive Communion. Part 2. Go to Mass. You will take Communion during Mass. Prepare yourself mentally during the Consecration of the Eucharist when the host is changed into the body and blood of Christ to participate in Communion.
You can do this by giving your thanks, appreciation, and reverence to Jesus Christ through prayer. Approach the altar. The priests and altar servers will prepare to give Communion by taking their customary places. Wait for the usher to guide your row to walk up. When leaving the pew there is no need to genuflect to kneel and cross oneself. Wait in line and do not skip people. Receive the host. Depending on the church and your personal preference, you can either have the host fed to you or handed to you.
In the Traditional Rite, the host is fed to you. Open your mouth and extend your tongue so that the host does not fall. The host will be placed on your tongue. Close your mouth and allow the host to dissolve on your tongue while thinking of the sacrifice made. Do not take the host from the priest, but rather allow them to place it in your hand. You proclaim your faith, both in word and in a gesture: as you say "Amen. There is an disinformation about the topic.
I do not why, I have heard many priests from Latin countries who say you should not receive the Holy Host in your mouth. And all from the extraordinary mass. I know the United States approved that in At the Last Supper, as you said, the apostles received in their hands after Jesus broke the bread. We are taught to be His hands in this world — — and holy hands that reach out for the Lord and to others are a very beautiful thing!
Jesus never fails. Keep up the good work of researching and writing. Gonzalez: I looked up your quotation of St. Here is the Latin text from which someone concocted the quotation you provided: "Sacramenta enim per eum sancta sunt cuius sunt: sed digne tractata afferunt praemium; indigne autem tractata, iudicium.
Et quamvis unum non sint qui Dei Sacramentum digne et qui indigne tractaverint: unum est tamen illud sive digne sive indigne tractetur; non ut ipsum melius vel deterius fiat, sed ad vitam mortemve tractantium. He speaks, rather, of the sacrament being "digne tractatum" which means "treated worthily".
How the translator got from "treating worthily" to "taking in the hand worthily" is beyond me. But I choose to think that he or she was not being honest. Now I wonder about the other quotations in your comment. However, standing is permitted by the bishops of most places. When one receives standing, one is required to make a specific act of adoration before receiving the Sacred Host or taking the Precious Blood. In the United States, the bishops have mandated a bow of the head as the required act of adoration.
A genuflection is discouraged, because of the obvious hazard to other people on line. While waiting for the person in front of you to receive recollect yourself for a moment and bow your head as a gesture of adoration.
Those who receive Communion may receive either in the hand or on the tongue, and the decision should be that of the individual receiving, not of the person distributing Communion. If Communion is received in the hand, the hands should first of all be clean.
If one is right handed the left hand should rest upon the right. The host will then be laid in the palm of the left hand and then taken by the right hand to the mouth. If one is left-handed this is reversed. It is not appropriate to reach out with the fingers and take the host from the person distributing.
The person distributing Communion says audibly to each person approaching, "The Body of Christ. The communicant should audibly respond, "Amen," indicating by that response his or her belief that this small wafer of bread, the wine in this chalice are in reality the body and blood of Christ the Lord.
When one receives from the chalice, the same proclamation is made by the person distributing Communion and the Communicant again responds, "Amen. If, for some reason, the communicant is not able or willing to drink from the cup then that person should receive only under the form of bread. It seems appropriate to conclude this reflection on the Communion Procession and the reception of Communion with a quotation from the Catechism of the Catholic Church , no.
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