Receiving Multiple Hosts

Generally speaking, there is no need for this. Receiving more than one host at a time would seem to imply that receiving a single host is not enough and thus would encourage heresy regarding the Eucharist.

However, there are limited circumstances where it is appropriate:

• If some hosts fall upon the floor, it would be appropriate to consume the hosts that fell.
• If Mass is said in a location with no tabernacle, then all the unconsumed hosts would need to be consumed.
• If a minister of communion to the sick had leftover hosts with no reasonable way to return them to the tabernacle, the minister of communion could reverently consume the leftover hosts.