Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: mmh@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Matthew Huntbach) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Receiving the host Message-ID: Date: 5 Aug 90 23:31:08 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK. Lines: 20 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article cms@dragon.uucp writes: > I believe the above quotation is from the 1549 Prayer Book (Church of >England). In the Episcopal Church, the Body of Christ is placed in the hand, >generally. In some Churches, placing the Body of Christ on the tongue is the >rule, but such churches are the exception in the Anglican Communion. > In actual practice, Episcopal Church priests will place the Eucharist > on the tongue's of those who open their mouths; this is >simply because of the large numbers of Roman Catholics who come to our > church for the first time (myself included) and >aren't familiar with prevailing practice. In fact, communion by hand has been permissible in the RC Church in England for about twelve years. Maybe it hasn't reached the USA yet, whether it's permissible is up to the local bishops (I remember seeing it in France twenty years ago). Communion under both kinds is now becoming more general in the RC Church here as well, and has recently been made permissible in all circumstances. Matthew Huntbach