Can my family receive communion?

[George_Ivan]

As a recent convert (big shout out to CA),the majority of family are Protestant and have asked me if they can receive the Eucharist at Mass. They have trinitarian baptisms and profess Jesus as Lord.
My question is what is the situation with Non Catholic Christians receiving the Eucharist?

 

[Fr.Charles_Grondin]

Catechism of the Catholic Church:

1400 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.” It is for this reason that, for the Catholic Church, Eucharistic intercommunion with these communities is not possible…

Principles and Norms on Ecumenism

1. A sacrament is an act of Christ and of the Church through the Spirit. Its celebration in a concrete community is the sign of the reality of its unity in faith, worship and community life. As well as being signs, sacraments—most specially the Eucharist—are sources of the unity of the Christian community and of spiritual life, and are means for building them up. Thus Eucharistic communion is inseparably linked to full ecclesial communion and its visible expression…

…the Catholic Church permits access to its Eucharistic communion and to the sacraments of penance and anointing of the sick, only to those who share its oneness in faith, worship and ecclesial life.

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops:

We welcome our fellow Christians to this celebration of the Eucharist as our brothers and sisters. We pray that our common baptism and the action of the Holy Spirit in this Eucharist will draw us closer to one another and begin to dispel the sad divisions which separate us. We pray that these will lessen and finally disappear, in keeping with Christ’s prayer for us “that they may all be one” (Jn 17:21).

Because Catholics believe that the celebration of the Eucharist is a sign of the reality of the oneness of faith, life, and worship, members of those churches with whom we are not yet fully united are ordinarily not admitted to Holy Communion.

The biggest issue with non-Catholics receiving communion is that they usually do not share of faith in the Eucharist. At Mass the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ becomes present in the Eucharist. Most non-Catholics do not believe this. Therefore when the host is held up and it is proclaimed “The Body of Christ” it would be a lie for the non-Catholic to assent “Amen.”

Secondly, we call also call this sacrament “communion” because through its reception the oneness of the Body of Christ is fully expressed. However, this oneness or communion with one another must first actually exist before it can be expressed, otherwise we are expressing a lie. Non-Catholics are, obviously, not in communion with the Catholic Church.