In Many dioceses in Japan, It is more and more difficult to receive the Eucharist on tongue. Some bishops have issues decrees as an excuse to prevent infection with flu while receiving the Eucharist.
Judging from my experience at St. Ignatius Church in Tokyo, however, the true purpose is to discourage Catholics to receive the Eucharist in hands, the method introduced more than thirty years ago. Although it was this May that St. Ignatius Church announced that the Eucharist would be given only to hands, a priest rejected to give the Eucharist on tongue even before one week of the announcement.
Pope Benedict XVI has encouraged to give the Eucharist on tongue everywhere and even after the spread of flu this year. But in Japan, as many other good examples in Rome, this is generally ignored by bishops and priests.
May the Lord grant us to receive the Eucharist in the right way in the near future.
Judging from my experience at St. Ignatius Church in Tokyo, however, the true purpose is to discourage Catholics to receive the Eucharist in hands, the method introduced more than thirty years ago. Although it was this May that St. Ignatius Church announced that the Eucharist would be given only to hands, a priest rejected to give the Eucharist on tongue even before one week of the announcement.
Pope Benedict XVI has encouraged to give the Eucharist on tongue everywhere and even after the spread of flu this year. But in Japan, as many other good examples in Rome, this is generally ignored by bishops and priests.
May the Lord grant us to receive the Eucharist in the right way in the near future.
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