[Pio]

"We've come a long way baby, the practice of communion in the hand, sign of peace and the other novelties were supposed to more closely unite us with Christ - strange how it has accomplished the exact opposite right under of the noses of everyone."

Strange...and I am beginning to suspect intentional.

Communion in the hand goes right along with disavowing the Real Presense.

[samiam1972]

As my faith grows, so does my irritation with the Church. I grew up in the 70's and missed out on all the Latin. Yet, I still long for it. I no longer take communion in the hand and neither will my son next year. We also sit in the pews that receive from the priest. I'm not a big fan of extraordinary ministers. Here are a couple sites that you might like reading. You may consider printing one of them out when it comes time for your son to begin his preparations. Good luck!

http://www.catholic-pages.com/mass/inhand.asp

http://www.tldm.org/directives/d03.htm

[sinkspur]

Communion in the hand goes right along with disavowing the Real Presense.

"Take and eat, all of you..."

Communion in the hand was the common method of receiving the Eucharist for four centuries, in the early Church.