Can We Go to Communion More Than Once on the Same Day? What a Priest Said When He Answered This Question

[mdgspencer]

see zuserver2.star.ucl.ac.uk/~vgg/rc/af/y91/mat91737.html
Some people are following information that is incorrect when they think we cannot go to communion more than once on the same day, this priest remarks. This was true once, but the rule changed in 1983. Catholics now can go twice to communion on the same day if it is during mass, this priest explains. (But not a third time)

EWTN also answered this same question similarly, at ewtn.com/expert/answers/communion_times.htm

 

[USMC_Convert]

Nice! I did not know that, thanks!

 

[7_Sorrows]

I had always heard you could go twice. Some might go to Mass on a regular Saturday morning Mass and then again late Saturday afternoon for the Vigil Mass.

 

[FrDavid96]

As a priest, it amazes me that after nearly 34 years of the current Code of Canon Law, there are a few points that still have not been sufficiently explained–and I think this is perhaps the worst example.

The post that the OP referenced was from 1991, less than 10 years after the Code, and still the priest there laments the fact that it hasn’t been properly taught. I wonder what he would say now, a full 26 years after his own post!

One clarification, the second Communion of the day must be at Mass, but that’s not required for not both times. So one could receive at a Communion service, then later that day receive at a Mass; however one may not receive at Mass then later at a Communion service. Of course, if one attends 2 Masses, he may receive at both.

 

[Don_Ruggero]

As a priest, it amazes me that after nearly 34 years of the current Code of Canon Law, there are a few points that still have not been sufficiently explained–and I think this is perhaps the worst example.

The post that the OP referenced was from 1991, less than 10 years after the Code, and still the priest there laments the fact that it hasn’t been properly taught. I wonder what he would say now, a full 26 years after his own post!

I would describe the lack of comprehension by laity as tragic and horrifying…that after so many decades following the promulgation of the revised code, something so fundamental can yet remain ungrasped.

 

[Rau]

I would describe the lack of comprehension by laity as tragic and horrifying…that after so many decades following the promulgation of the revised code, something so fundamental can yet remain ungrasped.

To what do you attribute this lack of comprehension?

 

[Tantum_ergo]

I would describe the lack of comprehension by laity as tragic and horrifying…that after so many decades following the promulgation of the revised code, something so fundamental can yet remain ungrasped.

Well, it’s a two way street, Father. Many would say that the laity not being catechized sufficiently is not solely due to their fault. I find that most (I say most only because I cannot of my own knowledge say all, but I am sure it is close to 100%) priests have tried very hard to lead the laity, and I would also say that most of the laity I have known have taken great pains to learn, but no system is perfect.