Can I go to 2 Sunday Masses & receive?

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Please someone tell me if it is okay to go to Saturday evening Mass, receive communion there, and then go Sunday morning and receive again. Why would I do that? Well, my four little ones can be distracting at Mass and there are times I am given the opportunity to enjoy Saturday evening Mass without them, then take them with me on Sunday morning. Of course, once I’m there in His presence Sunday morning, I desire to receive Him again! Anyone know the Church’s teaching on this?🤷
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Yes, it’s perfectly ok. In fact, you could go Saturday evening and twice on Sunday and receive each time.

The Church says that you can receive Communion a second time in one day (midnight to midnight) if the second time is at a Mass in which you’ve participated.

So you could go Saturday, receive Communion, then on Sunday visit a relative in the hospital and receive there with them outside of Mass, then go to Mass and receive there.

OTOH, you couldn’t go to Mass on Sunday and receive Communion and then go visit that relative in the hospital and receive there at a Communion service. See the difference?
 
But you could go and receive with your ailing friend, and THEN go to Mass and receive again. 😃
 
…And I couldn’t find this question after searching for it beforehand…

My friend forgot to go to Mass on Sunday, but he had intentions for doing so.

I advised him to go to Vigil Mass, but not to make a habit out of it (see the “Saturday Vigil Mass, Sunday Protestant Worship” thread that I started).

But my question is: It was my understanding that you cannot take the wafer more than once in a day (I have been told that taking it three times in one day means that you have a mortal sin or something of the sort). So does a “normal” (i.e. non-mortal-sinning) Catholic eat a Vigil wafer and then become inelegible for the Sunday wafter?

Thanks for your understanding…
 
Catholics do not eat a wafer, they recieve in Holy Communion the Body of Christ. The polite word for the appearance is “The Host”.

Catholics who are free from mortal sin may receive the Host in Communion twice in a day, provided one time is at a Mass (for instance, they could go to a Communion Serivce and then to Mass).

If they are in danger of death, they can receive a third time as Viaticum.

Reception at a Saturday Vigil Mass in on way makes a Catholic “ineligible” to receive again even twice on Sunday.
 
kage_ar said:
Reception at a Saturday Vigil Mass in on way makes a Catholic “ineligible” to receive again even twice on Sunday.
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That is incorrect. The restriction for the number of times Holy Communion may be received in one day is based on a calendar day (midnight to midnight) not Liturgical Day. One may receive Saturday evening at the Anticipated Mass and on Sunday two times if the situation calls for it…
 
Hihi everyone,

Sorry sorry sorry! Yes, I go to a Catholic seminary, but I still have the remnants of an undergraduate education at an Ivy League university where everyone used “PC” terms. The “wafer” was one such term…

But of course, yes, the wafer becomes the Body of Christ after the consecration.

Again, I think I have to be a little more exhaustive in my search queries to determine whether or not a question has been asked before.
 
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Reception at a Saturday Vigil Mass in on way makes a Catholic “ineligible” to receive again even twice on Sunday.
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nicolep said:
That is incorrect. The restriction for the number of times Holy Communion may be received in one day is based on a calendar day (midnight to midnight) not Liturgical Day. One may receive Saturday evening at the Anticipated Mass and on Sunday two times if the situation calls for it…
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It was a typo on **kage_ar’**s part: it was supposed to read “in no way makes a Catholic ‘ineligible’ to receive again even twice on Sunday”
 
Phemie said:
It was a typo on **kage_ar’**s part: it was supposed to read “in no way makes a Catholic ‘ineligible’ to receive again even twice on Sunday”
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Thanks for clarifying, Phemie. I realized there was a typo, but I read it differently.
 
kage_ar said:
Catholics who are free from mortal sin may receive the Host in Communion twice in a day,
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provided one time is at a Mass
(for instance, they could go to a Communion Serivce and then to Mass).
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More precisely: …provided the second time is at a Mass (or viaticum)…

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honeyspeak said:
Sorry sorry sorry! Yes, I go to a Catholic seminary, but I still have the remnants of an undergraduate education at an Ivy League university where everyone used “PC” terms. The “wafer” was one such term…
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Wow. I thought being politically correct was aimed at not giving offense to anyone. To me, referring to the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus as “a wafer” is definitely offensive.
Again, I think I have to be a little more exhaustive in my search queries to determine whether or not a question has been asked before.
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If you used the word “wafer” in your search I can see why you didn’t find anything. You might try “communion” or “Eucharist” when searching a Catholic forum.

For example:

Can I go to 2 Sunday Masses & receive?
May I receive Communion on Saturday night and Sunday morning?
Receive the Holy Communion twice a day?
Receiving Communion more than once in a day

However, I’m not sure I understand the original question.
My friend forgot to go to Mass on Sunday, but he had intentions for doing so.
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I advised him to go to Vigil Mass, but not to make a habit out of it
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If someone “forgets” to go to Mass on a particular Sunday, how would the anticipated Mass the following week relate? You can meet the obligation for a particular Sunday with Mass on that day or on the previous evening. If you don’t go on Saturday evening or Sunday of a particular week, going the following week is nice but does nothing about the Mass you missed.

Further, your comment about not making a habit of it is a bit off as well. A Saturday evening Mass meets your obligation as well as a Mass on Sunday. (Can. 1248 §1. A person who assists at a Mass celebrated anywhere in a Catholic rite either on the feast day itself or in the evening of the preceding day satisfies the obligation of participating in the Mass.)
 
Sorry sorry sorry! Yes, I go to a Catholic seminary, but I still have the remnants of an undergraduate education at an Ivy League university where everyone used “PC” terms.

Then if you’re a seminarian, you knew better than to entitle your thread "wafer eating."
 
Please save the scolding for private messages. The OP has already been told about the poor choice of words (concerning “wafer”); we don’t need more posts in this thread about it. Let’s move on to the actual question. Oh, which has already been answered. Good. Game over.
 
japhy said:
Please save the scolding for private messages. The OP has already been told about the poor choice of words (concerning “wafer”); we don’t need more posts in this thread about it. Let’s move on to the actual question. Oh, which has already been answered. Good. Game over.
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The OP is fortunate that he doesn’t attend a parish where they call the people who distribute communion “Eucharistic ministers.” Because an innocent question about becoming a Eucharistic minister, or whether it’s proper for the Eucharistic minister to do something, will result in a barrage of messages pointing out that only the ordained can be called Eucharistic ministers. He’d probably hear far more about that than he’s heard about referring to a wafer.

And I still don’t understand how missing Mass one week relates to attending Mass the following Saturday. If missing was intentional then it is appropriate to go to confession before receiving communion again. If it was unintentional, then there is no need to attend an extra Mass the following week.
 
With special permission some may even be allowed to receive more than twice in a day. I used to usher at 2 masses once a month and have on rare occasions ushered at 3. Before I knew any better, I never knew there was a limit of 2 per day. But I did hear than one could get permission to receive more than twice.
 
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