So…my memories?
Scant. Which is interesting, because it seem to show that even though we were not receiving Communion in the hand before 1977 in Knoxville, Tennessee, it did not feel like a big deal. It doesn’t stick in my memory as such, at least.
I was a senior in a Catholic high school in the south, and I don’t remember when this was - probably the fall - that the priest/principal gave us instructions on receiving in the hand in our religion class.
He stood at the front of the classroom - a very large fellow - and quoted St. Cyril, demonstrating how to make “the left hand a throne for the right, which receives the King.”
