How Often Do You Receive The Precious Blood?

[The Bus Station]

I was just curious. I haven't drank from the cup in probably 2 or 3 years.

[icelandic_iceskater]

I used to, then I had a cold for like 4 months. I haven't received since.

[Lilllabettt]

I never do. Actually, the only time I've ever received the Precious Blood is through intinction (on a spoon). I figure that it isn't necessary, since I've already received all of Jesus ... plus, it makes me nervous handling the chalice, plus there is always a line that is about to back up into the "regular" communion line.

Edited April 5, 2009 by Lilllabettt

[The Bus Station]

[quote name='Lilllabettt' post='1825568' date='Apr 5 2009, 06:17 PM']I figure that it isn't necessary, since I've already received all of Jesus[/quote]

Me too.

[IcePrincessKRS]

The only time I ever have was at my wedding.

[CatherineM]

I receive from the cup when I'm not singing. When I'm singing, I use the extra time drinking from the cup would take to choke down the host and have a second of silence because we take communion with the EM's, and have to sing immediately. Yes, I've complained, but no one wants to hear about the GIRM or the desire of the choir.

[Moosey]

They don't offer the Precious Blood at the Extraordinary Form.

[Lilllabettt]

I have this pet peeve, where I can't stand when people say "cup."

I knew a priest who was there when they did the translation ...according to him, they mistranslated "on purpose" ... they chose "cup" even though they knew it was the wrong word, because they thought "chalice" was overly majestic and not down-homey enough, and it would make people uncomfortable.

Cup is for coffee, Chalice is for Precious Blood.

[eagle_eye222001]

I'm always wondering about possible catching a cold so I rarely do.

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[Moosey]

[quote name='Lilllabettt' post='1825589' date='Apr 5 2009, 08:28 PM']I have this pet peeve, where I can't stand when people say "cup."

I knew a priest who was there when they did the translation ...according to him, they mistranslated "on purpose" ... they chose "cup" even though they knew it was the wrong word, because they thought "chalice" was overly majestic and not down-homey enough, and it would make people uncomfortable.

Cup is for coffee, Chalice is for Precious Blood.[/quote]
Ha. I love how they assume that people would be "uncomfortable" with the word chalice. They don't ask but they change it anyway and say people were uncomfortable. SHEESH.

Mmmmmmm....coffee Seriously looking forward to Easter.

[rose wrought of iron]

I used to, but then I got sick and have since stopped.

[goldenchild17]

I did and liked to do so when I went to the Novus Ordo, but haven't in the three years since.

[MissyP89]

I never have...I don't drink red wine, and have a tendency to make an awful face no matter how hard I try to suppress it. I'd rather not take it before risking looking irreverent and immature.

[Aloysius]

[url="http://www.adoremus.org/eucharisticummysterium.html"]http://www.adoremus.org/eucharisticummysterium.html[/url]

[quote]Holy Communion, considered as a sign, has a more complete form when it is received under both kinds. For under this form (leaving intact the principles of the Council of Trent,84 by which under either species there is received the true sacrament and Christ whole and entire ), thesign of the Eucharistic banquet appears more perfectly. Moreover, it shows more clearly how the new and eternal Covenant is ratified in the Blood of the Lord, as it also expresses the relation of the Eucharistic banquet to the eschatological banquet in the Kingdom of the Father (cf. Matt. 26: 27-29).

This is why from now on, in accordance with the judgment of the bishops and given the necessary catechesis, Communion from the chalice is permitted in the following cases, which were either already granted by previous legislation85 or are granted by the present instruction:

1) To newly baptized adults in the Mass which follows their baptism; to confirmed adults in the Mass of their Confirmation; to baptized persons who are received into communion with the Church;

2) To bride and bridegroom in the Mass of their wedding;

3) To newly ordained in the Mass of their ordination;

4) To abbesses in the Mass of their blessing; to virgins in the Mass of their consecration; to professed in the Mass of their first or renewed religious profession, provided that they take or renew their vows during the Mass;

5) To lay missionaries, in the Mass in which they are publicly sent out on their mission, and to all others in the Mass in which they receive an ecclesiastical mission;

6) In the administration of Viaticum, to the sick person and to all who are present when Mass is celebrated in the house of the sick person, in accordance with the existing norms;

7) To deacon, subdeacon, and ministers, who carry out their ministry in a solemn or pontifical Mass;

8) When there is a concelebration:

a) to all who exercise a genuine liturgical function in this concelebration, including lay people and to all seminarians who are present;

b) in their churches, to all members of institutes practicing the evangelical virtues and of other societies in which the members either through religious vows or offering or a promise dedicate themselves to God; and also to all those who normally live in the house of the members of these institutes and societies.

9) To priests who take part in large celebrations, but are not able to celebrate or concelebrate;

10) To all groups which are making retreats or following spiritual exercises, in a Mass which is celebrated during the retreat or exercises for those who are taking part; to all those who are taking part in the meeting of some pastoral commission, in the Mass they celebrate in common;

11) To those listed under nos. 2 and 4, in their jubilee Masses;

12) To the godfather, godmother, parents and spouse of a baptized adult, together with the lay catechists who have prepared him, in the Mass of initiation;

13) To the parents, relatives and special benefactors, who take part in the Mass of a newly ordained priest.[/quote]

In my opinion, communion under both kinds should have stayed as reserved to these situations only (I prefer some of the ones first listed more, as we get further down the list I think it expands a little too much, but that's not for me to judge and these norms would certainly present it in a type of limited way that I would like). It would preserve the normative ideal that Christ is fully present under only one species while giving both symbols to people on rare and important occasions, such that nearly everyone will have the opportunity to do it under both species on a few occassions during their lifetime. then there would never be any question of adding EMHCs just because we need to distribute under both species, because it would never be an entire congregation receiving under both species at one time... much less of a chance for problems to occur in the distribution and the priest himself would be the only one offering the chalice!

as often (but not always IMO) was the case, Pope Paul VI came out with a wise and cautioned approach to each new liturgical possibility, and then the Church ran wild with it and Rome expanded the previously reasonable directives to cover over all the wide variety of things being introduced...

I never receive it under that form, as I attend the Extraordinary Form, but I would very much like it if I could receive it in the Extraordinary Form on my wedding day. However, I do not believe these norms from 1967 are allowed to be applied under the Motu Proprio, Summorum Pontificum, since it limits it to the rites in place in 1962 which allow for no distribution of the Precious Blood under the form of wine.

[homeschoolmom]

About 50/50.