I have always used the priest's host -- about 2 inches in diameter. I have always despised those giant priest's host that, when broken, can commune a crowd. It is a ghastly thing to have invented a host on steroids. I wish we could go back in time and have stopped this. I get it. Who doesn't? Seeing is believing and so that host gains status by being large enough so that everyone gets a piece of it. Right? Wrong. It was a priest's host not because the priest needed to see it or you did but so that it could commune all of those serving at the altar. A two inch host can do that. A foot in diameter is too big and comic. Worse, it tends to make crumbs go flying as it is broken down to size for those to receive it. It is literally an accident waiting to happen.
Everybody from John Paul II to Joe Blow the First has used those super large hosts and it is embarrassing in every context. The giant one that feeds a couple of dozen or nearly seventy is like clown shoes. If you are using them, stop. The thing is just goofy and that is not a term to be used for the bread that is Christ's body. And Cavanagh, stop making them. Just stop and you can end the goofiness. Please.
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Less we forget, as LCMS SP Kieschnick, Officiant his last Convention Mass (2010), he used the giant size host with a chalice the size of a punchbowl (as if these are props?)
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