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Offline Miseremini

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Re: Can Catholics chew the Eucharist?
« Reply #15 on: April 24, 2025, 06:39:09 PM »
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    • From "Catholic Practice at Church and at Home" 1899 Page 73

    "Do not chew the Sacred Host like common food."

    After receiving, we are quite conscious of the Sacred Host to show It reverence, but as we've been chewing food for many years there may be the tendency after a while to unconsciously be less reverent.
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    Re: Can Catholics chew the Eucharist?
    « Reply #16 on: April 24, 2025, 07:12:01 PM »
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    • I would like to add that, without any chewing, trying to directly swallow the Eucharist causes much of it to get stuck to the top of my mouth (my palate) from which it most be (gracelessly) removed by my tongue (or another implement) scraping it off.

    Some of you may imagine that a failure to consume the Blessed Sacrament without any special motion is a sure sign of disbelief, but on the contrary I think many of us want to participate but are prevent by timezones and other factors from doing so.
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    Re: Can Catholics chew the Eucharist?
    « Reply #17 on: April 24, 2025, 07:25:15 PM »
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    • Quote from: Miseremini on April 24, 2025, 06:39:09 PM
    From "Catholic Practice at Church and at Home" 1899 Page 73

    "Do not chew the Sacred Host like common food."

    After receiving, we are quite conscious of the Sacred Host to show It reverence, but as we've been chewing food for many years there may be the tendency after a while to unconsciously be less reverent.
    Referring to the Blessed Sacrament as "It" rather than "Him"!

    Can you be any more irreverent?
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    Re: Can Catholics chew the Eucharist?
    « Reply #18 on: April 24, 2025, 08:40:02 PM »
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    • Quote from: ElwinRansom1970 on April 24, 2025, 07:25:15 PM
    Referring to the Blessed Sacrament as "It" rather than "Him"!

    Can you be any more irreverent?
    Words spoken by Jesus to St Margaret Mary Alacoque :
    ” Behold this Heart , that has loved men so much , that IT has spared nothing , even to exhausting and consuming ITSELF to testify to them IT’s love”
    ( All the “It’s” are capitalized)
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    Re: Can Catholics chew the Eucharist?
    « Reply #19 on: April 24, 2025, 09:39:31 PM »
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    • Quote from: josefamenendez on April 24, 2025, 06:21:08 PM
    You don’t have to let it dissolve completely- just soften a bit and then swallow. It’s very doable for me . Sometimes it sticks to your palette but it eventually gets unstuck .
    Never has been a problem .

    That is precisely what I do.
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    Re: Can Catholics chew the Eucharist?
    « Reply #20 on: April 25, 2025, 05:00:49 AM »
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    • Quote from: josefamenendez on April 24, 2025, 08:40:02 PM
    Words spoken by Jesus to St Margaret Mary Alacoque :
    ” Behold this Heart , that has loved men so much , that IT has spared nothing , even to exhausting and consuming ITSELF to testify to them IT’s love”
    ( All the “It’s” are capitalized)
    Do not quote private revelation to me ever as agrumentative evidence unless the revelation itself is the topic of discussion.

    Appeals to private revelation are weak and dubious.

    And you clearly failed to see that I was being sarcastic in my statement about "It" vs. "Him" because a claim had been made that elevated personal piety and opinion to the level of some universal disciplinary law.

    :facepalm:
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    Re: Can Catholics chew the Eucharist?
    « Reply #21 on: April 25, 2025, 08:55:48 AM »
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    • Quote from: ElwinRansom1970 on April 25, 2025, 05:00:49 AM
    Do not quote private revelation to me ever as agrumentative evidence unless the revelation itself is the topic of discussion.

    Appeals to private revelation are weak and dubious.

    And you clearly failed to see that I was being sarcastic in my statement about "It" vs. "Him" because a claim had been made that elevated personal piety and opinion to the level of some universal disciplinary law.

    :facepalm:
    Some private revelations are a bit weightier than others , but sorry if you find my appeal to the language of Sacred Heart potentially dubious. Not my intent.
    I was just trying to compare the use of the term "it" as appropriate subject terminology for an entity or persons.
    Hard to see your sarcastic humor through all of the intense anger.
    Next time I will look more intently.
    Again- apologies.
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    Re: Can Catholics chew the Eucharist?
    « Reply #22 on: April 25, 2025, 10:31:32 AM »
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    • Quote from: josefamenendez on April 25, 2025, 08:55:48 AM
    Hard to see your sarcastic humor through all of the intense anger.
    John 13:34-35
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    Re: Can Catholics chew the Eucharist?
    « Reply #23 on: April 25, 2025, 05:52:56 PM »
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    Re: Can Catholics chew the Eucharist?
    « Reply #24 on: April 25, 2025, 10:40:27 PM »
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    • Quote from: Marcellinus on April 24, 2025, 09:44:34 AM
    It is a requirement to actually eat the Holy Eucharist in order to validly receive the Sacrament.  There is nothing wrong with reverently chewing the Host.

    In fact, if one were to let the Host to dissolve completely before swallowing, some moral theologians say that the Sacrament is not received.

    This.

    Please, people, don't go down that road of VAINLY ATTEMPTING to put yourself in Our Lord's shoes and wonder "what would you have people do, if you were being received in Holy Communion?"

    IT IS TOO INCOMPREHENSIBLE. God is too far above us on this one.

    Just stand in awe of this Most Blessed Sacrament that man would have NEVER dared ask for -- it had to be the idea of Jesus Himself, born from His great love for us.

    There are many things about God which we cannot understand, especially in this life!
    Anything touching on "God's perspective during Holy Communion" certainly has to be one of them!
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