[Arthur McGowan]

Wow again.

I am certain I read it in Jone-Adelman, about forty years ago. I was not aware that ANYBODY in recent times was discussing this.

I remember with crystal clarity being instructed to allow the Host to dissolve in our mouths. That’s why, when I read about this in Jone-Adelman about fifteen years later, it stuck in my minds.

There is NO WAY that anybody is in hell as a consequence of being badly instructed in how to receive Communion.

[daniel1212]

I am certain I read it in Jone-Adelman, about forty years ago. I was not aware that ANYBODY in recent times was discussing this. I remember with crystal clarity being instructed to allow the Host to dissolve in our mouths

It is one of those non-binding competing tradition.

There is NO WAY that anybody is in hell as a consequence of being badly instructed in how to receive Communion.

Well, i think the logic was that since RCs tell us we must literally physically consume the flesh and blood of Christ in order to obtain spiritual and eternal life, invoking Jn. 6:53,54 - though nowhere in Scripture does literally physically consuming anything material or corporeal gain anything spiritual - then if one does not receive the "sacramement" then one is lost.

In reality, if one believes receiving the so-called "Real Presence" gains them eternal life, and their own merit, even if by grace, then they are headed to Hell-fire.