Communion on the Tongue

 Believe it or not, we are in Holy Week. And one part of Holy Week is the Institution of the Eucharist, which is celebrated on Holy Thursday. And I want to point out one thing that I was recently reading through. I was looking at "The Rites", in particular at the Worship of the Blessed Sacrament Outside of Mass. And part of it is the Distribution of Communion Outside of Mass. And in the instructions given, it insructions for a communion plate to be used, and that the proper way for communion to be distributed is on the tounge.

I recently looked at Archbishop Cordelione's article, where he says their Cathedral started incorporating kneelers to be used during Communion.

As much as Bishops like Cardinal Cupich, think they know better than the Church, the long standing practice of the church has been communion on the tongue and kneeling (though I believe the first is more important than the latter), in fact, the church itself says that communion on the hand is an exception, not the rule. 

Even lay ministers should give communion on the toungue. Which is why is is a shame to see any minister, ordinary or extraordinary deny communion, merely because someone wants to receive the right way, as perscribed by the church.

Side note, deacons in the Extraordinary Form, and preVatican II reforms, were allowed to give communion. I usually like to receive Communion from a priest, but will from a deacon, and will from an EM, if I can't from the others. But I've come to realize that whomever I go to, communion on the toungue is good. As an EM myself I have given communion on the toungue more than once. But I do not always kneel when receiving, though I have.

And if it's good enought for Pope John Paul II, then why not for all of us?

EM is Extraordinary Minitser, and not merely Eucharistic Minister