Correct Response for communion? | Traveling Preacher

Question:

Please tell me the correct response when receiving communion in a Catholic Mass from the priest.

-Vexed in Virginia

Answer:

"Amen" is the correct response, or the response called for in the rubrics.

Category:

Mass: Liturgy of the Eucharist

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John Thomas Lane, SSS

Blessed Sacrament Father John Thomas Lane pastors his home parish, the Roman Catholic Community of Saint Paschal Baylon, Highland Heights, OH. He writes a regular column for Emmanuel Magazine on pastoral liturgy. Formerly, he graduated from the University of Akron with a degree in music and education, Catholic Theological Union, with a Master of Degree, Word & Worship specialization and a Master of Arts, Liturgical Studies, from the University of Notre Dame du Lac. He served the Diocese of Salt Lake City, Utah as the Director of Liturgy, vocation minister for the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament, and on the Southwest Liturgical Conference Board of Directors for 17 years. He also pastored in Houston and Albuquerque.

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