[netmilsmom]

>>Fatalities, perhaps not. Yet a lot of colds or intestinal ills I’d bet.<<

Not from receiving on the tongue. The priest holds the host by one side and does not touch the tongue of a person. Our priests do it every week. Four of them.

Now that whole drinking from the common cup deal, YUCKIE. No way! And I love how wiping with a dry cloth and turning is supposed to work. I launder those cloths. I can’t tell you the amount of lipstick on them and just the thought of backwash! EWWWWWWWWW!!!!

[AnAmericanMother]

It's on the cloth, not in the cup (thank goodness!)

I too have noticed people turning away and walking quite some distance before casually conveying the Host to their mouths.

In the Episcopal church, we did not receive on the tongue, but we were taught to receive the Host in our cradled hands, and right there before rising to our feet (we always knelt unless infirm) bow our head over our hands and apply the tongue to the Host. We did not handle the Sacrament at all. If somebody wanted to receive by intinction they waited for the chalice-bearer, who would take the Host from them and dip it in the chalice. But never did anybody turn away with the Host still in their hand.