Can you receive Communion without completing your penance?

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Let’s say your penance is a bit more difficult. Can you receive Communion without completing the penance?

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Let’s say your penance is a bit more difficult. Can you receive Communion without completing the penance?

Thanks.
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Yes - just be sure to complete your penance at the earliest reasonable opportunity. 🙂
 
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Let’s say your penance is a bit more difficult. Can you receive Communion without completing the penance?

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Yes. Once you’re absolved, you’re absolved. The satisfaction is distinct from the absolution.

Absolution takes away the sin, but the damage is still there until it is repaired: thus, the satisfaction (or, as is commonly known, the penance):

For, without doubt, these satisfactions greatly restrain from sin, and as by a kind of rein act as a check, and make penitents more cautious and vigilant in the future;** they also remove the remnants Of sin, and destroy vicious habits acquired by living evilly through acts contrary to virtue.** Neither was there ever in the Church of God any way considered more secure for warding off impending punishment by the Lord than that men perform these works of penance Matt. 3:28;4:17;11:21 etc.] with true sorrow of soul. Add to this that, while we suffer by making satisfaction for our sins, we are made conformable to Christ Jesus, “who made satisfaction for our sins” [Rom. 5:10 ;1 John 2:1 f.], from whom is all our sufficiency 2 Cor. 3:5], having also a most certain pledge from Him that “if we suffer with Him, we shall also be glorified” [cf. Rom. 8:17]. Neither is this satisfaction which we discharge for our sins so much our own as it is through Jesus Christ; for we who can do nothing of ourselves, as if of ourselves, with the cooperation “of Him who” comforts us, “we can do all things.” Thus man has not wherein to glory; but all “our glorying” [cf.1 Cor. 1:31 2 Cor. 10:17; Gal. 6:14] is in Christ, “in whom we live, in whom we move” [cf. Acts 17:28], in whom we make satisfaction, “bringing forth fruits worthy of penance” Luke 3:8] which have their efficacy from Him, by Him are offered to the Father, and through Him are accepted by the Father [can. 13 f.].

Council of Trent, Session XIV (DS 904)​
 
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