Communion: Hand or Tongue? Allowed or Sacrilege?
Explaining the Faith with Fr. Chris Alar
The Marian Fathers
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🗓️ 25 February 2023
⏱️ 88 minutes
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The debate rages about receiving Holy Communion - should it be only on the tongue or can receiving in the hand be allowed? What is more ancient and what is more proper? Join Fr. Chris Alar as he explains what you need to know about the Eucharist and why. Support our Ministries here.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, good morning, everybody, and thank you for joining us. I'm Father Chris Ayler, one of the |
| 0:05.5 | Marian priests here at the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy. And today, I have been pushing this |
| 0:13.0 | off for 133 weeks. And it's because I really wanted to do my homework. This is probably the most |
| 0:20.7 | requested of all the |
| 0:23.1 | talks we have done, even more than divine mercy. We have been asked over and over. Father, |
| 0:29.4 | please comment. Please speak on communion in the hand versus on the tongue. Is it sacrilege? Can we be forced to only receive in the hand? |
| 0:40.3 | Am I allowed to receive whenever I want on the tongue? If I do receive in the hand, is it offensive to God? |
| 0:46.2 | We're going to talk about all of this as we take you back to seminary and give you some |
| 0:51.3 | reminders of the incredible grace, the source and summit of our faith, |
| 0:56.7 | that is the Eucharist. And so we hope you'll stay with us. Let us begin with the prayer in the name |
| 1:03.4 | of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Heavenly Father, we give you thanks |
| 1:09.7 | and all glory for the gift of your son, who has manifested |
| 1:13.7 | himself in the source and summit of our faith, the incredible gift of the Eucharist. |
| 1:20.2 | We ask you to always give us the grace, to receive it in a state of grace, reverently, and allowing it to change our lives to be effective in our hearts |
| 1:33.2 | and we ask all this to the intercession of our blessed mother mary and through christ our lord amen |
| 1:41.4 | in the name of the father and to the son Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. |
| 1:46.9 | Okay, so this is a huge issue. One, though, that is neither in any Vatican II document |
| 1:55.1 | or even in the catechism of the Catholic Church. Can you believe that? One of the biggest issues we are facing, |
| 2:03.3 | no mention in Vatican II documents or in the catechism of the Catholic Church. It came after |
| 2:11.6 | Vatican II. And what we have now is what we, you know, I think the best way says, what we have in church documents now is very clear. |
| 2:24.0 | Receiving on the tongue is desired and through an indult, receiving in the hand, is allowed. |
| 2:41.1 | Desired on the tongue, allowed in the hand, but we're going to explore this. Either way, you've got to be reverent. If you truly met our Lord |
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