Advent and confession

[O_Moriah]

Since you aren’t seeming to get it, let me put it this way: where does it say that there’s any grave reason for anyone to receive during the season of advent and Christmas? You are proposing that the person can receive if needed. But where does any document say that receiving during advent or Christmas constitute a grave reason?

No, you don’t seem to get it. The Catechism clearly mentions the case of grave reason for receiving. Thus, such situations exist. I’m sorry that you can’t seem to think of any.

I am sure that any reasons I propose as a grave reason you will vehemently tear apart, because you’ve made a judgement that no one ever has a grave reason to receive, which contradicts the Catechism. What constitutes a ‘grave reason’ is open to interpretation and in cases like this, often rests with pastoral advice which doesn’t always fit into clear cut cases and is open to differences of opinion.

Many priests give the advice I mentioned above to which you take exception. That advice is clearly within bounds of the Catechism and is not a violation of a principle that you are advocating in which a person who is aware that they have committed a mortal may never receive Holy Communion until they can get to the Sacrament of Penance first. You have yet to provide a quote that such a position is the teaching of the Church. And in light of the quote from the Catechism I provide, you are attempting to wipe that away so as to make your position the correct one, which it isn’t.

Perhaps you are stuck on the the difference between having committed a mortal sin and currently lacking a state of sanctifying grace? Those who have committed a mortal sin and are sorry, are now in a state of sanctifying grace. They still need to be reconciled to the Church through the Sacrament of Penance, and they should do that if they have the means before receiving Holy Communion. And if the means aren’t available, then the Church allows them to receive ‘for grave reasons.’ That’s in the Catechism.

If someone wasn’t sorry, and they are not in a state of sanctifying grace, then they should not receive, period. Is that perhaps where you objection lies?