[narses]

I understand and applaud your piety. If you are interested in a full review of the historicity of the practice, see Fr. Paul McDonald's treatment titled Historical Considerations on Communion on the Hand.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

There's no doubt that when it was introduced here that there already had been a reduction in reverence, solemnity, and dignity in Masses in the American Church. The moving of the tabernacles, the iconoclasm, the giddy folk and New Age music, everybody AND your grandmother in the sanctuary, the sporty recreational attire of the congregations, the comedy talk-show monologue sermons...etc., etc. All of THAT I dislike and deplore. The handshake "sign of peace" is a little awkward exercise in horizontal pop psychology as well. But I think a lot of this is the vulgar, popular, mass culture of secular America invading the Church. When all of that is also going on, well, yes, a lot of people are receiving WITHOUT reverence or sacramental seriousness.
When you go to places like Rome or London - WELL out of
American suburbia - the atmosphere is not quite that silly.