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Quick Questions May we join the priest in praying the Eucharistic Prayer?
Video How is the New Translation of the Mass Different?
Quick Questions When is it appropriate to applaud at Mass?
Quick Questions Is it illicit for a priest to sing the words of consecration?
Quick Questions May extraordinary ministers approach the altar before the priest receives Communion?
Quick Questions Are extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion able to give blessings?
Quick Questions Is the "gesture of reverence" before receiving Communion optional?
Quick Questions How can I defend the Church's teaching on liturgical gestures?
Quick Questions Why do we bend the right knee when genuflecting?
Quick Questions Why can't ministers of Holy Communion bring the Eucharist to Sunday-school teachers who are working during Mass?
Magazine Articles The Power of Smells and Bells
Quick Questions Should I genuflect or bow to the tabernacle?
Quick Questions Did the Church change the Mass so it would be more acceptable to Protestants?
Quick Questions Can you tell me who (if anyone) is supposed to read the gospel and give a homily at Communion services?
Quick Questions Can a lay pastoral coordinator give a homily?
Quick Questions Am I right in thinking that priests may prohibit female altar servers?
Video Mass Revision: Changing words and holding hands
Quick Questions I received ashes on Ash Wednesday, but my two-year-old son did not. Instead he was given a blessing. Is this a new practice?
Quick Questions Should the host be broken as the priest says "He broke the bread..."?
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"Approaching, do not come with your palms stretched flat nor with fingers separated. But making your left hand a seat for your right, and hollowing your palm, receive the Body of Christ, responding Amen. And having with care hallowed your eyes by the touch of the Holy Body, take it, vigilant lest you drop any of it."

~ Cyril, Bishop of Jerusalem, Doctor of the Church, Saint; on the proper technique for receiving Holy Communion in the hand (circa A.D. 347).