Can A catholic have communion at the United Church Of Canada

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AlNg said:
And could Jesus ask the Holy Spirit to bless their bread and their wine for the spiritual nourishment of those with a sincere and respectful belief in Jesus?
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No. I mean, He could, but Christ instituted the Church to be the way the sacraments are given to humanity. Heretical churches are not part of God’s plan for humanity.
 
Baptism does not require ordination. Consecration of the Eucharist does, as per Church teaching.
 
Because they’re not in communion with Rome. From the Catechism of the Catholic Church: [1400](javascript:openWindow(‘cr/1400.htm’)😉 Ecclesial communities derived from the Reformation and separated from the Catholic Church, "have not preserved the proper reality of the Eucharistic mystery in its fullness, especially because of the absence of the sacrament of Holy Orders."239 It is for this reason that, for the Catholic Church, Eucharistic intercommunion with these communities is not possible. However these ecclesial communities, "when they commemorate the Lord’s death and resurrection in the Holy Supper . . . profess that it signifies life in communion with Christ and await his coming in glory."240
 
AlNg said:
I don’t see where Jesus said you can Baptize if you are not in communion with Rome, but you cannot have a valid Eucharist if you are not in communion with Rome.
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Again- it comes from His Church.

Start a new thread if you really want to debate whether the Church is the Church Christ instituted. As for OP’s question, they asked for the Catholic perspective, so the Catholic perspective will be given.
 
AlNg said:
Was the death penalty an attack on the inviolability and also the dignity of the human person 500 years ago?
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Can you start another thread for your objections instead of clogging up this one?
 
AlNg said:
That is the topic no?
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Death Penalty? No. Communion? Yes.
AlNg said:
I don’t see where Jesus said you can Baptize if you are not in communion with Rome, but you cannot have a valid Eucharist if you are not in communion with Rome.
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For the last time, the Church has said it as the mouthpiece of Christ on Earth. Communion requires apostolic succession, though, not communion necessarily.

I guarantee that United Church of Canada doesn’t have Apostolic succession, though, so that’s a moot point.
 
lwest said:
Generally speaking? Can they ever?
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I read (I forget where) that a Catholic who happens to be at a Protestant church of some kind can receive if it is to avoid receiving negative attention or causing a fuss. My memory could be wrong, however.

But yes, a Catholic should avoid receiving communion at any Protestant Church.
 
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Yes, your memory is off on that one. A Catholic may NEVER receive communion at a church that is not in union with the Catholic Church (and while we acknowledge Orthodox communion as valid it is rare that the Orthodox would permit a Catholic of Rome/the Eastern Catholics in communion with Rome to receive).

I think you might be remembering the ‘pastoral care’ whereby during a Friday in Lent a Catholic who is served a meat dish may ‘eat the meat’ in order not to embarrass the host or hostess. That is quite a different thing from receiving the Eucharist in a Protestant Church. But I can see how you might have had a vague kind of memory and thought the two things comparable.
 
Such Protestant churches do not believe communion is the body and blood of Christ. And so you cannot have communion there, because it is not Christ. It would be a mistake to believe otherwise.
You don’t have to go on what I say. You can ask the minister, perhaps after the service, if it is actually the body and blood of Christ.
 
Their communion is ‘symbolic’ anyway, not a valid Sacrament. So don’t.
 
mdgspencer said:
Such Protestant churches do not believe communion is the body and blood of Christ. And so you cannot have communion there, because it is not Christ.
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Regardless of whether a Protestant church “believes” it is Christ or not, the Catholic still cannot receive communion there. It’s not Christ, and the Catholic is not permitted to give credence to Protestant errors in thinking their Communion is somehow Christ when it’s not.

Catholics do not choose to go to Protestant communion or not based on what Protestants believe about their Protestant communion.
Catholics are not allowed to receive Protestant communion. Period.
mdgspencer said:
You can ask the minister, perhaps after the service, if it is actually the body and blood of Christ.
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This is not necessary. The Catholic is not allowed to receive the Protestant communion regardless of what the Protestant minister says.

Also, why would a Catholic ask a Protestant minister a question like that, when a devout Catholic knows it is NOT Christ no matter what the minister says? The only possible exception would be if the Protestant minister had been ordained a Catholic priest and left the Church, in which case the Catholic layperson should not be participating in the services of a priest who has fallen away and fallen into serious error.
 
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No. A Catholic should never receive communion at a protestant Church.
 
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