tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post6578287536136734563..comments2023-06-16T16:08:23.446+01:00Comments on Edinburgh Housewife: Mad Trad 12: K is for Kneeling Mrs McLeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095035617334068201noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-70189927691703023862015-09-30T09:13:38.049+01:002015-09-30T09:13:38.049+01:00I absolutely agree about the communion rail. It is...I absolutely agree about the communion rail. It is very hard to receive communion on the tongue standing when almost everyone else is receiving it in the hand. One solution--albeit not a very satisfying one!--is not to receive at all under such circumstances. <br /><br />Meanwhile, it's almost amusing the great lengths (literally) I will go to find a TLM and its communion rail. I am thinking of my trip to Belgium (land of + Danneels et al), and my cheerful announcement to my vacationing brother that I was going to cross the country on Sunday morning. What a relief that he decided we should all go! Mrs McLeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18095035617334068201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-47917481438672183802015-09-30T09:13:26.636+01:002015-09-30T09:13:26.636+01:00I absolutely agree about the communion rail. It is...I absolutely agree about the communion rail. It is very hard to receive communion on the tongue standing when almost everyone else is receiving it in the hand. One solution--albeit not a very satisfying one!--is not to receive at all under such circumstances. <br /><br />Meanwhile, it's almost amusing the great lengths (literally) I will go to find a TLM and its communion rail. I am thinking of my trip to Belgium (land of + Danneels et al), and my cheerful announcement to my vacationing brother that I was going to cross the country on Sunday morning. What a relief that he decided we should all go! Mrs McLeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18095035617334068201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-70104540023389393322015-09-30T00:22:34.494+01:002015-09-30T00:22:34.494+01:00So good to know I am not the only person who stopp...So good to know I am not the only person who stopped receiving on the tongue because of the finger-in-my-mouth problem. I would rather not receive in the hand but otherwise, as the other commenters noted, I spend my approach time approaching thinking/worrying about logistics. The communion rail solves so many of these practical problems, theological reasoning aside!Wordgirlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-27810047416205044772015-09-29T20:15:39.227+01:002015-09-29T20:15:39.227+01:00"being shuffled down the conga line having to..."being shuffled down the conga line having to be concerned more with the logistics of not tripping up the person behind you..." ... or with how to avoid biting the priest's fingers. That has happened to me so often that I stopped receiving on the tongue. Somehow I can't handle receiving on the tongue in a queue. (There is no problem, of course, when I am at the tridentine Mass.)Magdalenanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-89074211056189390192015-09-29T15:01:53.681+01:002015-09-29T15:01:53.681+01:00I enjoy the Extraordinary Form as an occasional tr...I enjoy the Extraordinary Form as an occasional treat but on the whole prefer the Ordinary. But I would love to have the communion rail as an option every week. It's one of the things I miss the most about no longer living within walking distance of the local Trad parish.<br /><br />There is something lovely about actually getting in place in time to think about what is going on and appreciate it, rather than being shuffled down the conga line having to be concerned more with the logistics of not tripping up the person behind you or whatever. I have to admit, as gauche as such an opinion may sound to the Spirit Of Vatican II crowd, that kneeling with my co-communicants beside me fosters in me much more of a spirit of "oneness in the Lord" than receiving one by one in single file. How is receiving one by one more communitarian than receiving side by side? Heather in Torontonoreply@blogger.com