{"id":1658,"date":"2018-04-10T07:56:57","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T06:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2019-03-18T08:24:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T08:24:53","slug":"receiving-the-eucharistic-host-in-the-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=1658","title":{"rendered":"Receiving the Eucharistic Host in the Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a proper way to receive the Host in the hand.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;A Throne for the King of Kings&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The proper way to receive the Host in the hand is to place one hand flat on top of the other so that the open palm is facing upward. St John Chrysostom described this beautiful gesture as making of your hands a throne for the King of Kings.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1659 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Communion-in-the-Hand-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Communion-in-the-Hand-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Communion-in-the-Hand.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In order to indicate clearly that you intend to receive in your hands, you should have your hands in this position <em>already<\/em> when you approach the (extraordinary) minister of Communion; please do not wait until after the dialogue \u201cThe Body of Christ\u201d \/ \u201cAmen\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not appropriate<\/span> to receive the Host by taking it with two fingers (as if \u201cplucking\u201d or \u201cpinching\u201d) from the (extraordinary) minister of Communion.<\/p>\n<p>Once the (extraordinary) minister of Communion has placed the Host onto your palm, step to the side and consume it <em>immediately<\/em> by taking it with the fingers of the lower hand and placing the Host in your mouth. It is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not appropriate<\/span> to take the Host with your mouth directly from your open palm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a proper way to receive the Host in the hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-ryan-black","has-more-link","post-1658","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-5-catholic-teaching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p85OtW-qK","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Communion-in-the-Hand.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1660,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions\/1660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}