Can I Take Communion Two Times?

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I am planning to attend mass at 4PM on Saturday that will fulfill my Sunday obligation. However, if I attend mass at 12PM the next day, Sunday morning can I also take communion that day? Saturday I will be going alone, Sunday with family members.
 
I am planning to attend mass at 4PM on Saturday that will fulfill my Sunday obligation. However, if I attend mass at 12PM the next day, Sunday morning can I also take communion that day? Saturday I will be going alone, Sunday with family members.
Yes. Two separate Masses on two separate days.

No problem.
 
I am planning to attend mass at 4PM on Saturday that will fulfill my Sunday obligation. However, if I attend mass at 12PM the next day, Sunday morning can I also take communion that day? Saturday I will be going alone, Sunday with family members.
yes.

Technically speaking, you can receive communion at Mass twice in one day. In regards to attending the Sunday liturgy on Saturday evening, the day is still Saturday. While it fulfills your Sunday obligation, it is still consider Saturday in regards to receiving communion.

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What you describe is receiving communion in 2 days. But if you went to a liturgy service
and received communion and later the same day went to Mass and received communion,
that is permitted. What is not permitted is receiving communion at 2 liturgy services in one
day. At least one has to being at a Mass.
 
What you describe is receiving communion in 2 days. But if you went to a liturgy service
and received communion and later the same day went to Mass and received communion,
that is permitted. What is not permitted is receiving communion at 2 liturgy services in one
day. At least one has to being at a Mass.
Not “at least one.” The first can be any venue: Mass, late for Mass, Communion Service, hospital, etc.

The second must be at a Mass.
 
I am planning to attend mass at 4PM on Saturday that will fulfill my Sunday obligation. However, if I attend mass at 12PM the next day, Sunday morning can I also take communion that day? Saturday I will be going alone, Sunday with family members.
Yes you can. You can find it in the Catechism, but if you attend and fully participate in a second mass the next day, you can receive communion.
 
The answer to your question is contained within the Code of Canon Law #917 and #921:

Can. 917 A person who has already received the Most Holy Eucharist can receive it a second time on the same day only within the eucharistic celebration in which the person participates, without prejudice to the prescript of ⇒ can. 921

Can. 921 §1. The Christian faithful who are in danger of death from any cause are to be nourished by holy communion in the form of Viaticum.

vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/_P39.HTM#4.1.0.3.1.2.921
 
The answer to your question is contained within the Code of Canon Law #917 and #921:

Can. 917 A person who has already received the Most Holy Eucharist can receive it a second time on the same day only within the eucharistic celebration in which the person participates, without prejudice to the prescript of ⇒ can. 921

Can. 921 §1. The Christian faithful who are in danger of death from any cause are to be nourished by holy communion in the form of Viaticum.

vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/_P39.HTM#4.1.0.3.1.2.921
Yes, but the OP asked about receiving Holy Communion once each on 2 separate days. Of course one may receive the Eucharist every day if one is in the proper spiritual state to do so.
 
I am planning to attend mass at 4PM on Saturday that will fulfill my Sunday obligation. However, if I attend mass at 12PM the next day, Sunday morning can I also take communion that day? Saturday I will be going alone, Sunday with family members.
One does not “take” Communion. One receives it.
 
Yes, but the OP asked about receiving Holy Communion once each on 2 separate days. Of course one may receive the Eucharist every day if one is in the proper spiritual state to do so.
Hello Judy, I believe the quote from Canon Law already answered that question.
 
Hello Judy, I believe the quote from Canon Law already answered that question.
No, it didn’t – that canon talks about receiving twice in the same day. The OP was asking about receiving on two days – Saturday and Sunday. 😉
 
No, it didn’t – that canon talks about receiving twice in the same day. The OP was asking about receiving on two days – Saturday and Sunday. 😉
Forgive me for asking, but just so I understand, are you saying that you may be able to receive Holy Communion twice a day, as stated in the Code of Canon Law, but yet a question still remains as to once a day? Looking at the OP he said, as you stated, receiving on two days, Saturday and Sunday. Just trying to clarify. Another point of clarification is that the Saturday afternoon Mass the OP was referring to typically contains the Sunday readings, since according to Jewish tradition Sunday would begin after sunset on Saturday, so the OP could have been referring to receiving Holy Communion during two Sunday services. Again, please forgive the questions, but I’m trying to understand your response.
 
Forgive me for asking, but just so I understand, are you saying that you may be able to receive Holy Communion twice a day, as stated in the Code of Canon Law, but yet a question still remains as to once a day? Looking at the OP he said, as you stated, receiving on two days, Saturday and Sunday. Just trying to clarify. Another point of clarification is that the Saturday afternoon Mass the OP was referring to typically contains the Sunday readings, since according to Jewish tradition Sunday would begin after sunset on Saturday, so the OP could have been referring to receiving Holy Communion during two Sunday services. Again, please forgive the questions, but I’m trying to understand your response.
The clarification that everyone was aiming toward was making sure that the OP, you, and any other reader understood that the Mass on Saturday, even if it has the Sunday readings and fulfills the obligation, is still Mass on Saturday. Thus, the question is easily answered with a “yes, you may receive” because there are two separate days involved.

The Canon you cite is correct as well but confuses the issue. A day is always treated as midnight to midnight even when there is liturgical overlap.
 
Yes. You may receive twice per day when you assist at two separate Masses.

*Can. 917 A person who has already received the Most Holy Eucharist can receive it a second time on the same day only within the eucharistic celebration in which the person participates, without prejudice to the prescript of ⇒ can. 921

Can. 921 §1. The Christian faithful who are in danger of death from any cause are to be nourished by holy communion in the form of Viaticum.*
 
The clarification that everyone was aiming toward was making sure that the OP, you, and any other reader understood that the Mass on Saturday, even if it has the Sunday readings and fulfills the obligation, is still Mass on Saturday. Thus, the question is easily answered with a “yes, you may receive” because there are two separate days involved.

The Canon you cite is correct as well but confuses the issue. A day is always treated as midnight to midnight even when there is liturgical overlap.
In all my years of answering questions, I learned long ago that one does well to simply answer the question posed and stop there…and not run every possible permutation. I am affirmed in that insight by this thread.

What was a very simple question ended with the admixture of another matter that created a most unnecessary and also unhelpful conflation.
 
Yes, you may receive at two separate Masses on one day. What you are not permitted to do is to receive at a Mass, and then later receive a second time which is not during a Mass (with the exception of Viaticum). The second reception has to be at a Mass (the first doesn’t have to be).

To give an example: You go on Tuesday to the parish; there is no Mass scheduled but there is a Communion Service, and you receive. Later you go to another parish for a funeral Mass; you may receive again.

The reverse is not permitted. An example? You go to Tuesday Mass and receive. Then in the afternoon, you are visiting a relative in the hospital, and the chaplain brings around the Eucharist. You could not receive from the chaplain, as it is not during a Mass.
 
Is Saturday evening mass an option to meeting Sunday commitment internationally? Or only here in Aus?
 
I am planning to attend mass at 4PM on Saturday that will fulfill my Sunday obligation. However, if I attend mass at 12PM the next day, Sunday morning can I also take communion that day? Saturday I will be going alone, Sunday with family members.
Fr. Vincent Serpa (Catholic Answers Apologist) answered this very question back in 2007. He said that it is permissible to receive holy communion at the Sunday Vigil and a Sunday Mass.
 
What was a very simple question ended with the admixture of another matter that created a most unnecessary and also unhelpful conflation.
The problem is that the ‘conflation’ already exists in people’s minds. If we don’t address it, and they think we’re talking about the one situation (whereas they were really trying to ask about the other), then they walk away with the wrong answer.

Six of one, half dozen of the other: you prefer simple answers, and others prefer comprehensive answers. 🤷
 
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