Do you think it's wrong to take a consecrated host from church?

[CatholicAtHeart]

^ Discuss.
I've heard some people of doing it.

 

[Naomi4Christ]

I wouldn't get excited about it one way or the other.

 

[CatholicAtHeart]

Meh.. I know it sounds really, selfish and disrespectful. I want to take one home.

 

[Chris81]

Yes of course it is wrong, we are meant to share communion together as a congregation. When you take the body of Christ home to consume in private, it is as if you are saying that you are your own special church set apart from your own church congregation.

 

[Naomi4Christ]

Yes of course it is wrong, we are meant to share communion together as a congregation. When you take the body of Christ home to consume in private, it is as if you are saying that you are your own special church set apart from your own church congregation.

Which links to another thread initiated by the OP

 

[MKJ]

Why would you want to do that?

 

[Drax]

I wouldn't do it, and I'm not sure why I'd need to. I could always call a priest if I needed help/prayer/blessings/off-site Communion for whatever reason. But I'm probably missing something here.

 

[ebia]

In some parts of the early church it was the normal and appropriate practice to take some home to continue to make communion through the week.

 

[vespasia]

Yes BUT only if I have been asked to pastorally carry communion to the home of someone who could not make the church service.

I have too much respect for the sacrement of the eucharist to want to treat it lightly.

 

[Cjwinnit]

.. in your stomach?

 

[file13]

Yes of course it is wrong, we are meant to share communion together as a congregation. When you take the body of Christ home to consume in private, it is as if you are saying that you are your own special church set apart from your own church congregation.

This. Amen!

 

[VolRaider]

If you are having the Eucharist with a church member who is unable to make the service, then it's fine. If you stroll out of the church building with a wafer in your hand, then that is definitely a no-no. Actually heard of some prankster doing this during a Catholic Mass. Tacky - very tacky.

 

[JasonV]

If you want to take it home and put it in a monstrance for adoration, then perhaps you could speak to your priest and your Bishop about getting permission?

 

[kiwimac]

It is nothing more or less than a mixture of flour and water. Really, this is nonsense and perilously close to the creation of an idol.

 

[higgs2]

Holy cow! Ask OBOB lol.

 

[gurneyhalleck1]

Taking the consecrated Holy Eucharist out of the Church hostage is a disgusting and horrific display of impiety and blasphemous behavior. If you hear of someone doing this, you should tell your priest, deacon, or bishop at once! The Eucharist is to be eaten or adored in the chapel of a Church as per the pastor's wishes. It is not to be taken out of a Church to be gawked at or used as a magic wafer. It is the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of the Lord of Lords. I cringe at the thought of sacrilege like this.

 

[kiwimac]

Taking the consecrated Holy Eucharist out of the Church hostage is a disgusting and horrific display of impiety and blasphemous behavior. If you hear of someone doing this, you should tell your priest, deacon, or bishop at once! The Eucharist is to be eaten or adored in the chapel of a Church as per the pastor's wishes. It is not to be taken out of a Church to be gawked at or used as a magic wafer. It is the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of the Lord of Lords. I cringe at the thought of sacrilege like this.

Well done, you've made an Idol of the host!

 

[gurneyhalleck1]

And you've committed blasphemy. For 1,500 plus years the Eucharist was the Body, Blood, Soul, Divinity of the Lord. Your view that it is an empty wafer is a modernist innovation. Worshipping and partaking of Jesus Christ hardly makes it idolatry. Quite the opposite. Sad to see you take the Risen Lord's very Body and Blood so lightly....

Well done, you've made an Idol of the host!

 

[kiwimac]

Rubbish. A wafer is a created thing, it is not in itself divine. Jesus is present in the host in such a way as that it's substance is not altered. Now, your church believes differently but need I remind you you are in the Anglican & Old Catholic community forum?

 

[HisHomeMaker]

In some parts of the early church it was the normal and appropriate practice to take some home to continue to make communion through the week.

My daughter was once sent home with (or allowed to go home with) a small loaf of blessed bread that she could continue to consume through the week. She had been at a youth group worship night led by a priest. I didn't ask her much about it, so I don't know if she consumed it alone or if she shared it with others.