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I don’t know what the deal is, but I never saw a dropped host at an SSPX Mass in 20 years.

Now all of a sudden, I have seen either a priest drop a host/piece of host, or, a “fumbled” Communion at the rail (can’t tell if the priest was hasty, or the parishioner didn’t open mouth and extend tongue sufficiently, etc; guessing the latter, as my own son was guilty of this latter infraction, which almost resulted in a drop) 5-7 times in the last 12-15 months by different priests.

Another time another priest forgot to purify the paten.

What’s going on here?

It’s so frequent now, it almost loses the shock value.

Anyone else noticing an increase of this?

Ps: I intended to post this in the αnσnymσus forum, but accidentally posted it here.  It is not intended to attack the priests (the info above involved 4 different priests); just noting a very strange increase compared to previous years.

I mean, it can happen accidentally. Probably some priests are more liable to this than others, and have greater dexterity than others. Do you have a new priest at your church?

Yes, and he actually had to address the problem of faithful apparently not knowing how to receive Communion (e.g., open your mouth widely, and stick out your tongue, etc.).  I can see this in the case of my 8 year-old, but how the hell do long-time trads need to be instructed to stick out their tongues and open their mouths?  Its a shame.  You would think people would know at least that much.  

That's the part that's on the faithful.

But I'm even seeing the priests forgetting to purify the paten (not the regular pastor, by the way), or dropping Communion away from the rail.  

Of course accidents happen, and I get that.  And I'm not blaming anyone, much less attacking them for accidents.  Its just weird that so many priests/faithful have had this problem in so short a time span, when prior to this, I had never seen it at all.  Maybe its just the law of averages catching up with me after decades of Masses, but man, at least for the faithful, how hard is it to open your mouth and stick out your tongue???  

It may not be intentional, but it goes hand-in-hand with the SSPX "speed Masses".

The neo-SSPX's hastily celebrated Mass is a nationwide trend, they embraced post 2012.  

They are knocking-off Masses in 30 minutes and under.  Their Latin is high speed, without intonation or pauses.  
It is as if they want to see how fast they can finish the Mass?
Dropping the Holy Eucharist fits in with this hasty mode of liturgy.

It is primarily the younger priests who have been trained to do it, but also the older ones.  Fr. Asher the late vocation priest is a classic example.

At the last SSPX Mass I assisted at in Nov 2020, they did the speed Mass.  

Afterwards, a gentleman, I would describe as a relaxed, ecuмenical trad approached me in the vestibule to complain about the speed of the priest's elevation of the Holy Eucharist.    He irreverently did the elevation so fast, that he wanted to write a letter of complaint to their District Superior.  
My immєdιαte thoughts were that if this guy is complaining, it must be pretty bad?

But the real question is, why are they doing it?   Why do they not revere the Mass and pray it slowly with great concentration and devotion?
The neo-SSPX speed Mass very much borders on the sacrilegious.

Well, we haven’t had any “speed Masses” here.  

Actually, the only ones I ever attended matching that description were from Fr. Pfeiffer in 2012/2013:

25 minute Mass; 45 minute sermon (followed by 2 hour conferences).

It was like a Bishop Fellay confirmation Mass:

Hour long sermons, and women needing smelling salts.