Can non-Christians receive blessings at mass (at communion time)?

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BartholomewB said:
I did read several of them. I didn’t see you give any source for your statement that the practice is not permitted, If I missed it, would you be kind enough to give it again? Thank you.
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Read again!! I quoted the laws and CCC relevant parts!!

Vatican II, General Norms [for the liturgy], A. 22(3).

CCC 1125

Church law (reiterated in Redemptionis Sacramentum)
 
Yeah. I think that is what Thistle saying, unfortunately. Yikes!! 😐🤤
 
There are other paragraphs you might have quoted from the General Norms for the Liturgy, such as these two, for instance:
  1. It is desirable that the competent territorial ecclesiastical authority mentioned in Art. 22, 2, set up a liturgical commission, to be assisted by experts in liturgical science, sacred music, art and pastoral practice. So far as possible the commission should be aided by some kind of Institute for Pastoral Liturgy, consisting of persons who are eminent in these matters, and including laymen as circumstances suggest. Under the direction of the above-mentioned territorial ecclesiastical authority the commission is to regulate pastoral-liturgical action throughout the territory, and to promote studies and necessary experiments whenever there is question of adaptations to be proposed to the Apostolic See.
  2. The rite of the Mass is to be revised in such a way that the intrinsic nature and purpose of its several parts, as also the connection between them, may be more clearly manifested, and that devout and active participation by the faithful may be more easily achieved.
    For this purpose the rites are to be simplified, due care being taken to preserve their substance; elements which, with the passage of time, came to be duplicated, or were added with but little advantage, are now to be discarded; other elements which have suffered injury through accidents of history are now to be restored to the vigor which they had in the days of the holy Fathers, as may seem useful or necessary.
Summarizing.—The rite of the Mass is to be revised with the aim of achieving devout and active participation by the faithful. To this end, in each territory a Liturgical Commission is empowered to regulate pastoral-liturgical action and to promote studies and necessary experiments.

As I said in an earlier post, there are weighty arguments on both sides of the question. It isn’t cut and dried.

http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_...const_19631204_sacrosanctum-concilium_en.html

[Edit] The correct numbering of the second paragraph quoted here is 50, not 45. CAF’s autocorrect keeps changing it and I haven’t found a way to prevent that.
 
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